There is, of course, going to be a massive move back into reality & our real world as the utility of the internet dies. For 20 years technocrat-billionaires deliberately “addicted & addled us” (more…)
An ode to Jake Lorenzo… and a world of collaboration in business that we lost.
I’m finally catching up, and in this mystifying world, I am further mystified why they would drop a column like yours, as this speaks to what so many of us have experienced in the last 30 years of hospitality, (more…)
Alan Watts’ Trust the Universe, Baudrillard’s Simulacrum, Eckhart Tolle’s Joy Ease & Light, BBC’s Adam Curtis & Hypernormalisation, and stepping back into the really real world
WHAT YOU STARE AT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. It’s part of my decoupling from the manufactured world they want us to live in, vs just staring at beautiful things like water and rolling hills. =) I think that’s (more…)
Owning in lieu of subscription fatigue: physical media is on the rise
AI Slop really is biting Youtube, IG, and Spotify. Even my wife, sis and dad who don’t care and just want a pleasant playlist are caught off guard they’ve heard fake artists and fake albums. But it’s (more…)
A manufactured overlay to make reality seem simpler: Epstein Files vs the BBC documentary Hypernormalisation
The 2023 BBC Adam Curtis’ documentary is getting renewed attention, its day in the sun so to speak, as we have simply just uncovered a global criminal elite wealthy technologist pedophile ring (more…)
1997 MTV’s Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more.
In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, at (more…)
Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race.
Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent (more…)
Weirdest Post Ever: There’s a world of people that enjoy and catalogue “Hold Music”
The best you could loop for 10 hours as a productivity tool. Playlist of 47 companies worth of hold music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1InrZfsJQlCS7l0xi2avI_iXjjxEnAD This (more…)
Why physical media might be future proof, but keep that wax cool.
Do We Still Need Physical Media? https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/07/28/do-we-still-need-physical-media/ . THIS IS SUPERB. That’s a philosophical blog that thinks about art. They’ve done amazing (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0012 – “What do you do and how do you know when you’re finished?”
Star Wars Model video is pretty rare and awesome, and I don’t even really care about the franchise vs the filmmaking of the time. Also the new videoconferencing tech is unreal. Also, this is HEAVY (more…)