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*
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Is older music timeless? yeah, it is
Is Old Music Killing New Music? – by Ted Gioia (substack.com)
The 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5 percent of total streams. That rate was twice as high just three years ago. The mix of songs actually purchased by consumers is even more tilted toward older music. The current list of most-downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the previous century, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Police.
There’s good music every decade but it’s true that the 70s/80s/90s are kind of peak quality because it was in those decades that the “music industry” was the most powerful and cared about music, developing artists, sounds, etc.
The industry cared because music in those decades music was like video game skins today: shit was hot and lucrative as hell. They would gamble on a new artist and immediately sold out his/her/their albums.
Now? Music executives have to make up pointless numbers with streams, which are a useless metric. The “industry” doesn’t exist much or let’s just say that music is everywhere and doesn’t really need a strong business arm like before. Artists sell on different platforms, people consume from free to subscription-based to buying vinyls. Whatever.
But yeah, a 4mn song with four chords or more, a bridge, a duet of voices and about 20 different instruments, has a lot more leg than a 2mn beat on a 15s loop with one high pitched chopped voice sample and one auto-tuned line. skrrt.
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Question
I can explain, but you might need to sit down for a few hours.
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Sooo
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,
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Winter real MVP
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.
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Shower thoughts
(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.
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it’s about the journey bla bla bla
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.
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It’s like the jungle sometimes
It looks like I’m pretty good with plants.
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Reflection on content
Netflix proves the point for MS buying Acti-Blizz; if you don’t own fantastic content, you won’t last.
Netflix knew this and has been cranking up production for years now. But nothing has come close to movies or TV shows that were developed for YEARS. It’s not just about production money and 4K cameras. Now Netflix is raising their prices and losing shows they don’t own. Netflix is feeling the heat in 2022.
Disney knew this. Just their Pixar catalog alone is able to convince me to pay for their subscription service. HBO knows this too and that’s why they don’t want people to binge their stuff. They want people to respect that content, rightfully so.
You need genuine, good, not-specifically-designed-to-chart content for your platforms. Period.
Microsoft knows this too and I would even argue that the reason they dropped the mobile market is to go after juicy content —from Minecraft to Zenimax— while not getting sued for monopoly. Owning content over controlling hardware >>>>
It’s all about who has rich, tasty, prone to spin-off IPs. Nintendo knows this too.
Interestingly, it’s always been like that. The thing is creating those premium IPs is still random, costly sorcery so, it’s easier to buy them.
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Algorithmized TV production
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.