"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
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@baldur yes, this is fucking brilliant! Though, when you quote Gramsci, I keep adding "... This is the time of monsters.", and wonder what the monsters are.
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur Bjork is great, don't listen to the haters. Or, well, maybe she's played out for you and that's also valid. But like if people find her weird, and she is weird, that's a silly thing to dislike a pop star for. If you want a pop star who is boring and incapable of surprising you, you can just have generative AI produce statistically likely pablum from the corpus of actual artists.
Were these haters all guys? Did they simply hate her because she's a woman who is famous and successful?
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@baldur Bjork is great, don't listen to the haters. Or, well, maybe she's played out for you and that's also valid. But like if people find her weird, and she is weird, that's a silly thing to dislike a pop star for. If you want a pop star who is boring and incapable of surprising you, you can just have generative AI produce statistically likely pablum from the corpus of actual artists.
Were these haters all guys? Did they simply hate her because she's a woman who is famous and successful?
@skyfaller Always guys and it was always a red flag because it wasn’t actually her music they disliked but her nonconformity
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur excellent piece. thank you for it.
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@baldur excellent piece. thank you for it.
@ireneista My pleasure!
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@skyfaller Always guys and it was always a red flag because it wasn’t actually her music they disliked but her nonconformity
@baldur My favorite thing by Björk is the music video for "It's Oh So Quiet": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU
It's just full of joy, she looks like she's having a blast, and that's timeless, kind of like the Beach Boys sounding like they're having a great party while recording "Barbara Ann" (I like when they crack up for some reason while singing about Peggy Sue... I guess someone made a mistake? But I didn't hear it.)
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur This is a really great, really thoughtful, piece.
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur Fantastic as always, thanks for writing it!
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@baldur This is a really great, really thoughtful, piece.
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@baldur Fantastic as always, thanks for writing it!
@peter_sc My pleasure!
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur is it messed up that this piece makes me more optimistic about the future of tech than anything else i've read in ages?
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur yes, and to further your point, we (the us) cut aid in a reckless, sadistic manner, and no one in those countries will forget that, either.
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"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
(www.baldurbjarnason.com)
This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.
@baldur I suspect the societal role of software and computing machinery as a whole will be scaled back, as the perpetual propaganda gives way to keeping the oppressed too ignorant and disconnected to resist on the one hand, and the well-governed will be delivered material benefits instead of video game consoles and whatever the mass market does with PCs as babysitters to pacify them in the depths of deprivation and isolation on the other. It's been baffling to watch the arc of the personal computing industry over the past 50 years. Typewriters, photo albums, film reel collections, album collections, and calculators aren't really that fascinating to hybridise, even with video game arcade machines thrown in, and no fundamentally new material benefit comes of doing so, unlike genuine physical engineering or medical advances. There's a place for hardcore number crunching machines and microcontrollers in various things, but the entire basis of software's undue prominence has been corrupt ab initio.
(This from the point of view of someone whose study was oriented round the number crunching but ended up doing operating system kernels in industry instead.)
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@baldur is it messed up that this piece makes me more optimistic about the future of tech than anything else i've read in ages?
@eniko I actually think that some optimism, at least about trying to think about how software can mitigate some of the other stuff, is entirely reasonable.
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@baldur yes, and to further your point, we (the us) cut aid in a reckless, sadistic manner, and no one in those countries will forget that, either.
@abetterjulie Yeah, that too was a big one.
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