Weeknotes Need to be a Sunday Thing

Sunday Thing

I’m going to try not to make a habit of posting these on Mondays. My weeknotes need to be a Sunday thing to fit into the rhythm of my life I’ve created for them. Last week I posted them on Monday due to being super busy, and this time around they arrive on a Monday due to the fact I was under the weather all last week.

Nothing serious, but 5 day long bone tiredness that came out of nowhere. I don’t think it was COVID – but other mystery winter illnesses are available. I woke this morning feeling fine. Totally over it. But Saturday was a total write off.

Earlier in the week I thought I might write about the Truth_Terminal craziness today. But this video pretty much covers it and my actual thoughts are super long. It’s well worth watching as we very much are living in weird and crazy times.

I will add, not covered in the video above is that my friend @Deepfates is in the middle of it all. The thread linked by the image below is one of the craziest things I’ve read in a long long time

The TLDR is that I think Stewart Brands pace layers diagram has for the last decade or so needed an additional 8th layer: ‘Social Media’. The Internet moves way faster than fashion. If you think about where we are in 2024, nature is changing fast and social media whips along at warp speed. And it seems that culture is moving faster than governance which is sort of stuck in the middle.

Ages ago I wrote about ‘de-lamination‘, sections of society or cultural demographics that are peeling off, sheering away from other parts of culture. The elites are just one example.

This Truth Terminal stuff is another example, at least for people aware of it or are participating in it. We now live in a world of where the grand tradition of 4chan raids have become financial instruments, and said raids are being created and directed by unsupervised AI agents. It’s totally wild. Maybe I should do an episode of 301 about it.

On The Blog:

WalkCast.FM

I spent some time with the new app WalkCast.fm and wrote about it.

I tried out a new App called WalkCast today developed by oio studio.

They bill it as a “Story Telling Engine,” which is definitely more snappy than saying it’s an: AI powered – location based – narrative non fiction – podcast generator?

It’s quite a fun little app.

Permanently Moved

When Is The Audience?

Instead of optimising for immediate visibility, you always have the opportunity and option to create for a future audience. One that’s somewhere in the long tail. If you’re willing to embrace that, you don’t need to worry about algorithms or trends.

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Photo 365

The Ministry Of My Own Labour

• PROJECT ENTRY became OFF GRID: RED TEAM I’m currently working on an experimental video game designed to teach players real life cyber security skills.
• Worked on PROJECT DIVE for a bit. Thought a lot about LLMs exploring their own capabilities
• Interviewed by NEW MODELS podcast
• Had a catch up call with KRIS SAKNUSSEMM
• Caught up with new hires at NOVARA MEDIA

Terminal Access

Eddie Rathke reviewed 3 recent movies he’s watched in one post: Civil War, Oppenheimer, and Megalopolis:

Children, if Coppola was looking to make a movie to make money, he would not have spent his own literal fortune to make it.

He could have shit out some movie for Disney and received a fat paycheck.

This is the movie he needed to make. He felt it so urgently that he literally threw away a fortune to make it real. To give his vision to the world.

Dipping the Stacks

Inside a ferroelectric RAM chip

Ferroelectric memory (FRAM) is an interesting storage technique that stores bits in a special “ferroelectric” material. Ferroelectric memory is nonvolatile like flash memory, able to hold its data for decades.

Low-carbon technologies need far less mining than fossil fuels

How much concrete, steel, silicon, and other materials do different sources of clean energy need?

Taste games | or why I avoid midrange beer

Nobody just says to do what you want. They always first demonstrate that they understand the standard arguments for tilting or not tilting, and then say to disregard them. That demonstration shows that they are above the other groups, not below them. Who’s insecure?

From Ledgers to Sandcastles – guiltygyoza

We yearn the freedom of assembly and association. The freedom to declare spaces, summon them, populate them, and terraform them to our liking

The world’s first fully functional 32-bit bendy CPU can run while wrapped around a straw, but boy is it slow | PC Gamer

Pragmatic Semiconductor has published a blog announcing the hyper-flexible chip, which it says is the “world’s first 32-bit microprocessor in a flexible technology that is fully functional while flexed”

Reading

I finished Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis. This book is a tough one to read. The deep dive on how Amazon has reshaped the American economy. One of my take aways is .. what sort of aggressive moves will the company make when its crazy tax breaks it negotiated last decade start to end in 2025 onwards?

Deep Black by Miles Cameron. Blasted through book #2 really enjoyed it. I was highly entertained.

Still on deck: Wisdom – Letters of St. Joseph the Hesychast, Puppets, Gods, Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan, Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing

I Am Toward You – How To Dress Well

In the pub the other a night a friend asked me what I thought of the new How To Dress Well album now it’s been out for the summer. Much to my chagrin I admitted I hadn’t listened to it yet. It came out in May and I was saving it for a the right HTDW vibey day. But then an opportunity didn’t come a long and I forgot about it. I corrected the omission over the weekend.

HTDW’s 2012 album Total Loss occupies such a strong place in my emotional / sonic landscape history that it will forever be the LP that all future work is compared against. But I Am Toward You Is it’s own thing, Tom’s first release in six years and the most sonically challenging yet, blending glitchy guitar samples, field recordings, and ethereal, elusive melodies into a dense and introspective soundscape.

While the album avoids the more accessible hooks of earlier work, tracks like nothingprayer leap out at you. Mainly due to its use of his signature falsetto which is less pervasive though this album. “Song in the Middle” is a slow-building loop that evokes a rush of emotion or memory. Gas Station Against Blackened Hillside meanwhile sees soaring vocals over skittering beats

It’s a lovely album that I suspect would have defined the summer – had I listened to it. Instead I get an ethereal autumn.

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