A book review Twist: A Novel : McCann, Colum reminded me of how techies shirk responsibility by accepting and reinforcing marketing bubbles. My good friend Hagen reminded me back in the 2000s to say ‘network’ when talking about the cloud. I blame Big Tech not only for the exploitation of emotions, but also for the creation of the fantasy of a cloud in which data falls to us from the sky, so to speak. Read More...
I really enjoy browsing pages of ctrl-c users. It almost feels like time traveling. I always find something that attaches me to myself at a younger age and this just feels good. What was different in the 1990’s when browsing the internet- I think it wasn’t called browsing at all because the web was still at it’s infancy or in just starting to transition into what it’s now. I was thinking a lot about the “tabbed browsing” experience that I see now as a precursor of the overwhelming presence of web-mediated information retrieval. Read More...
Spent some time browsing the tilde pages of ctrl-c.club users. It’s nice here. I am currently listening to a patch I made in VCV-Rack trying out various ways to use the Benjolin Osc as a source for pitch information and the VCO Lab as the main sound source.
What’s the point in writing all this? If the reason to write is to change other peoples mind, then this is not going to do anything. Read More...
