We live in world where people have phones with 16 gigs of ram, 8 CPUs and who will, with this device basically:
– fidget with the interface
– take calls, answer text messages
– let those billions of notifications pill up everywhere.
And that’s mostly it.
I swear as a nerd knowing what’s going on inside those machines, the waste of technology is at an absolute all time high right now. Remember climate change? Consuming less and all that?
I started to add some in my salads a few months ago. I didn’t have any for a few days. I’m not going to say that I was trembling, I’m not going to say that.
But I was trembling.
It’s back to normal now. *pushes avocado off teaspoon*
I can explain, but you might need to sit down for a few hours.
Dear future,
Time doesn’t exist etc. I just try to remember. Last year at the same moment, we didn’t have vaccines. We only knew that scientists were onto something and that it would be ready soon. Maybe.
12 months later and 600 gazillion vaccine doses distributed, uh, it’s still a fucking mess. Infection rates are through the roof and deaths are following.
It’s hard to go from no hope to hope to reality check.
Meanwhile the US government feels like it’s made of NPCs, women might really lose their fundamental abortion rights, France is getting steamrolled by heavy right wing ideologies in an election year and Russia is Russia-ing. WHEW.
I’ll be soaking up the sun outside. Cheers,
The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle.
I went back to using hot water bottles, or hot bottle waters like I used to mess up.
They are the best. I use one with a nice, soft, fluffy fur cover. Knee is sore due to fade away turn around jumpers? 10mn on said knee, while moving it, and it’s back to normal. Neck hurts from typing? Five minutes of hot water bottle rolling between my shoulders and I feel much better. Cold feet? No more cold feet. Cold bed? No, it’s not now. Feel like needing a warm hug in this panny? There it is.
Heated water warms your blood up and said warmed blood circulates all over your body making you warmer naturally without getting forced dry, hot air on your delicate skin.
It’s awesome. Renewable. Cheap. It should be in every single home because it’s perfection.
(not really because I’m eating)
ANYWAY. About technology.
It’s not about centralized VS decentralized. Those things happen, for good and bad reasons and give us good and bad results. They change. They happen.
What matters is INTEROPERABILITY. Interop is needed now, in the past and in the future. Everywhere. And sometimes, often, interop doesn’t exist.
Interop. Focus on interop, my dear software companies.
Phil Jackson the famous Bulls coach, narrates in his books what happens when you win it all, after beating every single team all year long, all the way to the finals (he did it eleven times):
– 24 to 48 hours of partying
– ???
– Go back to practice
I like to remind myself of that when things are hard.
It’s old ass eastern philosophy I guess but it’s still pretty much on point.
The journey is quite important, if not everything.
It looks like I’m pretty good with plants.
They have algorithmized TV production.
They collect shit-ton of data on everything of the users, and track eyeballs (not literally, I think)- what are people watching, what are people binging, etc.
They are forming clusters of users based on demographic, purchase power, etc, and mapping those clusters to features in content.
And if a certain overall kind or discreet feature is worth the amount of eyeball it is attracting, a designed, soulless series gets created with those features, or two.
This is what modern, app-TV feels to me. No art, no quality. Just content tailor-made and factory produced to match the taste of favored demographics with purchase power. And they not only want to match. They want to maximize.
They want the maximum amount of people to watch something, not small amounts of people finding their niche.
I cannot tolerate this kind of content, and I am unsubscribed to all services except Amazon Prime for free delivery of goods.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t some good TV. I would consider Bosch to be quality TV, and Ozark is okay-ish. The Expanse, too.
But I am done with conveyor-belt driven app-TV.
I feel that too. That’s how Don’t Look Up felt like. Not bad, but not “real” either. So weird.
Teenagers and early 20s folks are often on Snap these days.
I’m wondering about the cultural impact of a service based on ephemerality, once those people realize that their youth will be a hollow memory with nothing to show.
Especially when they compare themselves to previous generations who have most of their digital memories saved.
Y’all will have 5,000 questionable selfies and 240fps footage of random shit on icloud to remember when you were young. And that will be it.
We will talk a lot more about that in ten years, once they reach 30.