To put yesterday’s Super Bowl in an Apple nerd context, Mac OS 9 was still the default operating system on Macs when Brady started his first Super Bowl run.
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My three-year-old asked me if Tom Brady was real or pretend today.
I told him that he is real, surprisingly.
I am probably the only person who hears the prominent use of “Country Road” to promote “Clarice”, and imagines how “The Silence of the Lambs” could exist in the same universe as “Whisper of the Heart”.
Re-imagining the Mandalorian as a TV adaptation of Metroid II.
the diminishing returns of productivity culture
Anne Helen Petersen has put into words what I have been feeling for a very long time.
Capitalism does not care for that reality, or for the human wreckage it leaves behind. Leaders will seek out workers who can meet the new production quotas that technology suggests they can achieve, and dispose of them when they can no longer do so. And do not fool yourself: this is as true for factory and physical labor as it is for the office and “knowledge work.” I’m not scared that a robot is going to be able to write a blog post, or write my next book. I’m scared that I’ll be expected to write five books in the time I would’ve previously been expected to write one — and for the same amount of pay.
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I keep waiting for the “Hulu Without Ads” of news media. I want to pay for content, but if I am paying, I should be the customer that the platform is built for.
You can’t look at this logo and not think “well this company is clearly a front for Hydra.”
Calendar recurrence data is proof that the devil exists.
Is this about right?
I have a song stuck in my head. I will not tell you this song, because then it will undoubtedly get stuck in your head.
You’re welcome.