Here is some stuff I’ve noticed, thought about, or wrapped up, while ending a summer of travel and work (the order is random):
- Progress is the process by which the miraculous becomes mundane. We (or our ancestors) saw this happen with telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, tape and digital recording, and now recording and sharing events using a pocket phone. Photography and videography are both now so easy, high-quality, and widespread that old purposes such as art and archiving are mostly sidelined. Apple and Google, our primary providers of pocket tech, mostly want you to shoot the shit out of everything, and to store and share the results using their software. Doesn’t stop me from putting my own stuff up where it might last, however. My latest photo album is here. The shot above is one sample from it. Eleven views so far.
- Apple is not so much taking the early lead in personal AI as it is creating the category of personal AI devices, starting with the Mac Mini. Please note that “local” is not personal. It’s yours in the sense that you have it, but it’s still a suction cup on the tentacle of a corporate overlord. This video by Nate B. Jones explains it a bit.
- Just heard about Olivia Dean from The Wall Street Journal.
She and her song “Man I Need” remind me of Lianne LaHavas and “What You Don’t Do.” I wrote about Lianne and that song here ten years ago. Both ladies are from London. But the roots of their music mostly come from across the pond. - Since border blasters mattered a lot for a few decades of the last century, and the Wikipedia page for them (that last link) is sub-minimal, I decided to make research into them a little easier with this post on my Trunkline blog.
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