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Annoyed by Sonos
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I have a set of Sonos Play speakers in my office which get 6 – 8 hours a day of usage while I’m working. I’ve enjoyed their sound for a few years, but the software has continued to get worse and worse. Lately they’ll play music, but only some album I played a few weeks
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Feb 2025 Reading Recap
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This month you’ll note no fiction books were finished. That dang Brandon Sanderson guy wrote a 1300 page tome so I’ve made progress on Wind and Truth but not finished it. In fact I’ve made enough progress that it would equal 2 fiction books worth of pages read if it was a normal sized book.
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AI doesn’t have to be successful to be dangerous
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Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence. The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us.
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What If We Designed Systems to Work for People, Not Just Profits?
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Reminder, next month we’re reading A System for Writing by Bob Doto. You can find future books here. If you have suggestions I’d love to hear about them. Systems need balance and buffer, but both of these things can be tricky to keep around in the face of a system that appears to be working.
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Apple is just a business
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Many are currently lamenting what they see as the fall of Apple from a tech company that “did it right” to one that goes where the winds of power takes them. They see Apple advertising on X again or donating to the inaguration as some personal affront to their sensibilities. The problem is that people
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A Weird Corner of the Internet – Floor 796
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In the sea of generic social media and governments speed running their way to Nazism Floor 796 brings back some good old internet oddness. I spent 20 minutes scrolling around absorbing what’s happening and I still could spend time seeing what’s going on. If you know of more odd places online I’d love to see
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The Hidden Addictions of Our Economic Systems
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Not everyone recognizes that addiction can appear in larger systems and in other guises — such as the dependence of industry on government subsidy, the reliance of farmers on fertilizers, the addiction of Western economies to cheap oil or weapons manufacturers to government contracts. Thinking in Systems Pg 131 We want our systems to be
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When you Don’t Like Books
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It’s rare that I don’t finish a book, but there have been a few. Most recently I put down The Black Swan because I felt it was a poorly written self agrandizing work written so that Taleb could show how smart he was while making up new names for established principles. Even when I do
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An interview with @amerpie
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I enjoyed the behind the scenes look with Lou. In general I enjoy the series of blogger interviews.
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