Riccardo Mori: “I actually quite like most of what Apple is doing with the Mac, hardware-wise. The problem is I just can’t stand the software anymore.” I’m close to this point. It’s werid to see Apple’s hardware ascending great heights while the software tumbles into incoherence.
Re: this essay on accelerated and decelerated landscapes, I wonder if we can think similarly about media landscapes. Maybe what we need is not the distinction between “fast” and “slow” media but rather an ethic of deceleration – a movement rather than a binary switch.
Brad East’s rules for reviewing and being reviewed, are excellent, but the very first rule for reviewing should be: Don’t review a book unless you have actually read it. This rule is broken quite often, I’m sorry to say.
Currently reading: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 📚
Maybe this is just an oddity of my brain, but I find the Systems Settings app in Ventura incomprehensible. Whenever I have to use it I go straight to the search bar.
On my first morning at Laity, I always walk to Blue Hole. But it’s 39° this morning so I don’t think I’ll take a swim.
In these circumstances, a reminder: You don’t have to go there. You don’t have to do any of that crap. Life is better outside.
IMO, what this story points to is the difference between people who want to listen to sound systems and people who just want to listen to music. I’m in the latter camp. I like having a good system but I’m not going to let that interfere with the music.
“Well, we’re the Satanic Temple, not the Church of Satan, because they’re awful.” From a terrific essay by Matt Milliner, mainly about Vladimir Putin.
Nothing a mob does is clean,
not at first, not when slowed to a media,
not when police.