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From the self-publishing to decentralized social networks to random entertainment links, these posts explore the friction between technology platforms, people and how I think it shapes our culture.
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▶︎ Eternal Spring | Jack Wyllie ¶
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A lot of musicians, including myself to some degree, struggle with their previous work, and find it hard to accept the relative naivety of it, the album or song representing something they believed in then, that they no longer do now - it can be hard to accept who you are across your lifeline but im getting better at it.
Jack Wyllie from Portico Quartet's new solo album. Saw him play at Big Ears this year in a small room, in the dark with a handful of people. It made me appreciate the space musicians create and how much the room and the audience matter in the experience.
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https://genius.com/The-undisputed-truth-friendship-train-lyrics
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The Semmelweis Reflex ¶
mikefisher.substack.com
The Semmelweis reflex, a term the writer Robert Anton Wilson popularized, names the tendency to reject new evidence when it contradicts established norms and beliefs. It is close to ordinary confirmation bias. The Vienna version cut deeper. Accepting his explanation meant confronting the possibility that for years they had carried death to the patients they were trying to save, on their own hands, and the evidence implicated them. One account of the episode names the trap: “the paradox of being healer and murderer was intolerable for most.”
Had no idea that this was an established concept or the background story here. Anyone who has worked on an "innovation team" inside a big or established company knows how this goes all too well....
My New Radio is YouTube DJs
I used to discover new artists by taping songs from the radio on my Sears Frankenstereo. Now I Shazam songs from YouTube DJs and ditched the algorithm.
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10 Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI ¶
honest-broker.com
What a bizarre world the technocracy has created. It thought it was building the future, but instead it will force people to return to a past even older than Silicon Valley itself.
The analog trend is already in full swing, but I can see how this sense of trust could push it even further in areas like photography.
Lambchop - The New World Wave (Official Audio) ¶
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"To Harry and Loretta A child was to be had They called him Easy Buckets My brother called him Dad"
This new Lambchop album has been on repeat since it has come out. This track is amazing.
An American Engineer in China ¶
notboring.co
Field Notes #1: The First 11 Days
This article on Not Boring and the Ezra Klein Show episode with Brad Setser have been eye opening.
Is the grid dead? How young people are changing the feed ¶
dazeddigital.com
“Ghost-posting became a way for me to have things that were happening in my life out there, but not necessarily broadcast them,” says Farrell. Today, the 23-year-old exclusively ghost-posts, and feels it’s helped her gain a sense of independence and freedom over her digital footprint. “I realised I can just post whatever I want and have it on my [grid], but I don’t have to worry about what people think of it… It’s become a little moodboard for me, rather than something for others,” she says. “It’s about making my account my place.”
This feels like a photo app opportunity where you just take photos, make comments as you do, then share later...right?
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The human is the loop ¶
brentfitzgerald.com
There’s also a large segment of the tech industry now betting on a mass socioeconomic dependency on LLMs. The only way those valuations are ever justified is if we collectively become hopelessly dependent on AI-based tech.
The crutch issue is real. Feeling like you need to bring in a LLM to do something as opposed to just using it as a tool. See Maslow's Hammer.
Great New Music I'm Recommending Right Now ¶
honest-broker.com
Leenalchi: Here Comes the Crow Experimental K-Pop I rarely review K-Pop—so much of it strikes my ears as formulaic and sound-alike. But every once in a while I encounter a pop recording from Korea that defies all my expectations. Here Comes the Crow is a case in point. The pop sensibility here co-exists with funk, jazz, hip-hop, and other unexpected ingredients. It’s shockingly fresh and totally unpredictable.
Best $6 I spend each month is my subscription to Ted Gioia's Honest Broker. One of the main inspirations for really putting effort back into writing (the other is making good on a promise to friend who told me to "STFU and just write!"). Great pics per usual.
Male Friendship Needs Somewhere to Happen ¶
theatlantic.com
If male friendship thrives on shared interests, then opportunities to engage in those activities need to exist. Various trends in American life over the past generation, however, have limited those opportunities. Churches, clubs, civic institutions, and public spaces are in decline. Jobs that take the form of staring, alone, at computers rather than engaging collectively in physical labor are on the rise. Hobbies are getting more and more expensive, and screens are colonizing the time once taken up by IRL activities.
The thing I've been thinking about lately is how the activities you once enjoyed change over time. Sports I loved for 20 years ago I can barely stand to play or watch anymore. Where does one even find out about "restoring heritage railways"?
Bingebuster — your streaming services, restocked as a video store ¶
bingebuster.net
Choose your subscriptions, enter the store and browse what you can stream like it is Friday night again.
Absolute genius. I look forward to the dispassionate MPCs walking around the aisles restocking and being cheeky if you ask them a question.
Soundtrack The Page — listening guides for the books that made you go and listen ¶
soundtrackthepage.com
Companion listening guides for the books that made you go and listen.
Easily one of the best ideas I've seen in a while. Look forward to seeing more books
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy's Balearic Breakfast 4.8.26 ¶
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Join us me on Tuesdays from 10am to 12pm GMT for Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live. Requests can be made on colleencosmomurphy on Instagram.
Starting to build my own programming clock of streams. Cosmo's Balearic Breakfast each Tuesday is one of my favs.
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Town Squares
If Twitter is a "town square", then the last month has been like a western movie where some bad guy and his band of hoods rode into Twitter Town, bought it and the locals freaked the f&%k out. Many of us have fled to the dense woods of Mastodon or opted for the [sparsely regulated…
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How Bad Is Your Spotify?
Turns out mine is bad. I'm also uncool and old. More on that in a bit. Let me tell you how I found out…
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The Best of Everything
So many people have written great posts or tweets about Tom Petty and their favorite Tom Petty moments. I've loved reading how Tom Petty moved them or was a part of their life. Thought it might feel good to share a few of my own.
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Let's retire RSS when they retire Google Reader
Originally published on Pandodaily on April 29, 2013
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