The Regroup (newsletter)
In the absence of microblogging, I need a place to share all that stuff I would otherwise post to Bluesky, so I'm doing a little split now described on the following page: There are two exciting…
A timeline, of sorts
This is my attempt to figure out what happened to get us here. 1996: Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News to support the conservative project of delegitimizing liberal institutions like journalism and go…
AI is becoming normal technology, for better or worse
I was watching the last ever Hard Fork when it hit me: AI isn't just normal technology. All technology is eventually normal, but it starts out new, and new stuff always goes through a process. Unt…
A Strategic Retreat
AI is a...noisy topic. People I am naturally allied with on essentially everything have succumbed to a madness. I need to rewatch Neverending Story, but the situation is very much like The Nothing. T…
The Links That Bind
I collect things on this little internet of ours, and have for a long time. I want to get back into the oldschool sort of blogging where you just post whatever's on your mind. That's a process…
April 1, 2020 — More Satellites Than Planes
Good advice circulated early in the covid pandemic: take lots of notes, you'll want to remember this era. I tried! This was pretty much it. I'm doing a lot of retrospecting on a lot of things…
You Are Not Immune To Local Consensus
Human beings are prone to mistaking local consensus for global consensus. Most people never notice this process happening because they're never pushed far enough outside consensus to see its edge…
You won't read this
You'll skim it at best. If you're kind, you might offer sympathy. If you're an asshole, you'll look for a comment form to go off on a rant devoid of any connection to the thing you'…
Find your most used sounds in Ableton Live
Step 1: Grab DB Browser for SQLite Step 2: Find your Ableton data directory. If you're on Windows: press windows key + R, and put in %LOCALAPPDATA%/Ableton then click Run. The stuff you're lo…
Advice on advice
This started as a comment on Hacker News. I need a browser extension to capture comments on forums and social media as blog drafts. Here is one of a small number of things I consider indisputable: It…
Revisiting The Walking Dead
Circumstances aligned recently to allow me to catch up on The Walking Dead. I started with spinoffs: Dead City and Daryl Dixon. I had already watched most of Fear The Walking Dead and the first season…
4/4: A beat you can dance to
Spend any time immersed in music discussions and you'll see people ask why 4/4 is so popular. The short and most precise answer to all questions of music and music theory is: centuries of changin…