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s13e25: Universal Basic Compute
December 21, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, 21 December, 2022 and a cold morning in Portland, Oregon. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Universal Basic...
s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things
December 16, 2022
0.0 Context Setting I started writing this late on Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. It was the kind of day where you could see patches of blue...
s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch
November 22, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, November 22, 2022 and a rainy but not freezing cold morning in Portland, Oregon. Two more days until Turkey Day or...
s13e22: This isn't an HBR case study, this is a hundreds of millions of dollars new campus of Look At This Fucking Guy
November 18, 2022
0.0 Context Setting Friday, November 18, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I am slowly still getting better from covid. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention...
s13e21: Sunny and crisp outside
November 17, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, November 17, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it is sunny and crisp outside, an archetypal autumn morning. It’s thirteen days...
s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person
November 9, 2022
s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person 0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, November 9, and I am in MSP airport, on my way back to Portland....
s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition
November 8, 2022
s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn’t (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition 0.0 Context Setting It is Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at...
s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices
November 1, 2022
s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices 0.0 Context Setting I started this on 31 October, 2022 in...
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More
October 28, 2022
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More 0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday, October 28, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it is a grey,...
s13e16: Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators
October 27, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, October 27, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I just downloaded an archive of my Twitter data because it's a good thing to do...
s13e15: Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think
October 26, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, October 26, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and yesterday I wrote a proposal that extends into 2023 and we are officially living...
s13e14: Weird VR or, Make VR Fun; Heated seats; You don't see the unsuccessful long tail
October 25, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, October 25, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and autumn has definitely arrived. Forecast 10 day highs are in the mid 50s, not...
s13e13: If we could just put our music within reach of people; Wordstreams; As a military officer, I want to; Forty Four Thousand, One Hundred Times A Second, Twice
October 24, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Monday, October 24, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. Our air quality is good at an AQI of 21, and the rain has come. The United Kingdom of...
s13e12: Standards; The Bird in the Room
October 21, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Friday, 21 October, 2022 in Portland Oregon and the air is finally good, green and healthy to breathe outside. Well. Healthier....
s13e11: What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse?
October 19, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, 19 October, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. It’s getting cooler this week, and we’re still forecast to get rain over the...
s13e10: Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling
October 18, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, October 18, 2022 in Portland, Oregon. While it’s getting cooler, nearby forest fires mean our air quality index has hit an...
s13e09: HBO Max is Upside Down; Bits and Pieces
October 17, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, October 17, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and it’s finally getting a bit cooler. We might even have rain this weekend! Let’s get...
s13e08: Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR
October 14, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Friday, October 14, 2022 in Portland Oregon and it continues to be unseasonably warm. We've got... an episode for you tonight! Some...
s13e07: It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled
October 13, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, October 13, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I have a headache and am grumpy, but I’m going to write anyway. 1.0 Some Things...
s13e06: Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs
October 12, 2022
0.0 Context Setting It's Wednesday, 12 October, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and we're forecast to hit 80f (26-and-two-thirds celsius) this afternoon....
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