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Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did I miss something important? Send me an email to let me know.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.OpenAI...
It suddenly occurred to me today that it's actually pretty strange to strive to do most things by myself in an overly independent way. I have this romantic idea about solitude and independence. That it's this perfect state of being where...
The 4th of July hasn’t felt the same to me in quite some time. The country I was born and doesn’t feel the same as it once did. Yet it does. In ways I wish I could ignore. Those are obvious observations many share, I’m sure. To me they...
Surprise! Today’s post is about a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we’re told that computers no longer rely on primative things like...
At the start of the week, I posted about Horror Movie rules and the Final Girl. The topic of the Steven Jackson Games Magazine's Slasher Flick. I had never played that, but I did know about the RPG Slasher Flick: Director's Cut from...
Thought it was about time we did another one of these. Looking through my archives, I found a bunch of arcade production line photographs that to my knowledge, haven’t been shared before. I originally posted some arcade factory pictures...
Source Every U.S. state has experienced temperatures of at least 100°F – even Alaska.The hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134°F (56.7°C), measured at Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913. It remains the...
Link: Cascade PBS launches Local Public as standalone streaming tech company, by Matthew Keys at The DeskI’ve got some complicated feelings about this announcement from Cascade PBS:“Cascade PBS, the non-profit television station serving...
@openmentions.com For 99% of problems that us computer people fix, we’re just googling the problem for you.
Who even BUYS physical media anymore? Asked the guy whose experience with gaming is exclusively on his phone and a PlayStation 5, whose only interaction with music as a medium is via Spotify and Walmart radio. Who buys physical media,...
I’ll go first. I love the way living on the coast tempers extreme weather. Heat waves are slightly less hot, and cold snaps are slightly less cold. I never knew I loved the sea air until I started spending time in London. Coming back to...
The team is finishing our last bit of summer break, and we’ll be back next
Pretty grim day of news in the industry today, with Salma Alam-Naylor stepping away from developer relations work permanently, Josh Comeau taking a sabbatical from making courses and GSAP’s once-vibrant forums descending into a ghost...
The blip is over. We have Fable back. Utah teapot: happy fable/mythos easter Wednesday, to those who celebrate Here is the official letter restoring Fable, great job everyone. Notice it is addressed to Tom Brown, not to Dario Amodei....
The blip is over. We have Fable back. Utah teapot: happy fable/mythos easter Wednesday, to those who celebrate Here is the official letter restoring Fable, great job everyone. Notice it is addressed to Tom Brown, not to Dario Amodei....