Recently:
I read Cory Doctorow’s The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation which is incomplete (perhaps by nature) in its proposed solutions but very clear and eloquent in its belligerences.
I watched Wargames, which is still great. I was interested by how wildly crammed the final conflict and resolution is. For example the linked scene, in which Professor Falken stubbornly holds to his trauma-induced nuclear fatalism before suddenly and inexplicably resolving it offscreen five minutes later, undergoing a polar character shift. Anecdotally I’d like to think that in 1983, the first 80 minutes were necessary exposition for the concept of a bleep-bloop robot computer run by a video game-modelled algorithm that can control nuclear warheads and which a teenager can talk to over a telephone line; something that might not need much explaining now.
Eras: The Beatles was a nice chill listen covering a rough history of The Beatles, a band who I never consider much thanks to most media concerning them being painful deification. This series introduces them as experiencing the highs and the lows of creative process and the pitfalls of fame and collaboration which are so familiar as to seem pedestrian, and it’s the better for it. Normal band
As tends to happen when I get wrapped into a long period of work and study I just listen to the same couple of things over and over. Recently these have been nearly everything by Starflyer 59, this one Troye Sivan track, anything by The Field that is monotonous enough not to notice, and whatever the algorithm provides after this Blanck Mass album finishes.
Tobias Revell is very insightful in this podcast on Creative Processes and Understanding Design, AI & Chat GPT.
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