Hearthless: How Streaming Stole Our Shared Fires
How the shift from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand streaming changed the way we gather around our stories.
Tagged: essay
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The Global Derealization
On how experiencing the world through screens during a pandemic creates a collective sense of unreality.
Get a little anxious, information overload, tagging
This is a braindump of something I would like to think about and possibly approach some solutions this year. Information overload makes me more than a little...
You know you're a pompous a-lister... (first in a series)
This post satirizes pompous bloggers who claim credit for others' work by casually mentioning past ideas, offering backhanded compliments, and criticizing newer implementations while implying they pioneered the concept years ago.
Interviews in Geekland
I participated in an interview panel for an NSF-funded project and reflected on how brutally unfair tech interviews often are compared to more professional hiring practices in other sectors.
Shopping Spree
I've been on a shopping spree lately, ordering electronic components online and scoring deals on a Canon printer and messenger bags. I'm amused by my newfound concern with having the right bag for different occasions.
Car Tire
My front tire blew out on a busy Austin highway, and my attempts to fix it—first on the roadside, then in a Pep Boys parking lot—turned into an increasingly humiliating disaster involving a broken stud, a gashed hand, and a four-hour wait.
This is important
I'm urging you to learn about threats to digital rights and free innovation by exploring the EFF's work on government and corporate lobbying efforts against creative freedom.
Important Lesson
I learned a painful lesson in welding class when I burned my hands picking up hot metal and singed my shirt with the filler rod—overconfidence can be costly.