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The big use case for Super Audio CD was always multichannel mixes, including recreations of 1970s LP quadrophonic mixes. But it’s surprisingly hard to get a good setup; longer post coming on this soon.
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Three easy tips that will improve all writing:
- NEVER refer to something as “interesting,” it’s a weak interpretive word
- Avoid generic usage of the words “factors” and “elements”
- Drop all common idioms and clichés
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Something that’s been memoryholed is how Ezra Klein once wrote a column in which he inadvertently revealed he didn’t know that the original General Electric had been dissolved.
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Incredible Alexander Pope passage; I think about “too wise for pride, too good for power” all the time:
You, that too wise for pride, too good for power,
Enjoy the glory to be great no more,
And carrying with you all the world can boast,
To all the world illustriously are lost! -
This David Golumbia passage makes a nuanced point: Isn’t DRM both a clever technical solution and a key freedom within software design? His Cyberlibertarianism will irritate you, but it’s full of truth nukes like this.
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Anecdotal storytelling is exhausting now. Not every article about like basic water conservation has to begin with “One crisp summer day in 1965, Diane Noname drove up to a remote lake house <continues for 800 more words>.”
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“Why does Mickey Mouse wear gloves?” is a seemingly innocuous question that leads to some disturbing places.
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Bacon sampler from The Farmhouse in Indiana
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They just invented something that if you buy it, it makes you happy.
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Tariffs on Canada (and Mexico and the EU and everywhere else) are inevitable because without them, China and to a lesser extent Korea and Taiwan will just route their trade surpluses through third countries. Only a global tariff can counter trade distortions that cause deindustrialization.
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Mike Masnick is shocked that a site built entirely on opposition to Elon Musk is also opposed to generative AI. Next he’ll be stunned that gambling happens in casinos daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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It’s wild how many people were able to pose as “environmentalists” while advocating unfettered data center construction and praising China, the world’s largest green-house gas emitter and material polluter by far
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FiiO FT3 headphones with balanced 4.4mm plug connected to a FiiO DM13 CD player. Also, a #cat
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Guy who takes a “hunt and peck” approach to mowing the lawn
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The attempt to move away from X has been a clear failure. Bluesky is still irrelevant and media people in particular are realizing they’ll be out of the loop if they’re not on “the bird site” (remember when people called it that?) schwarztech.net/snippets/…
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Thinking that difficult media is inherently superior (“deeper”) is what I like to call “the Dark Souls fallacy.” Masochistically subjecting yourself to opaque and frankly sloppy design in works like FromSoftware games and DFW novels is no different than performing Catholic penance for imagined sins.
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One of the best arguments against getting a degree in English is that you’ll spend lots of time reading disreputable French and German theorists who, on top of being impenetrable, couldn’t have cared less about English per se.
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The affinity that many have for gold as “real money” and their obsession with the “national debt” are legacies of Watergate. Nixon ended the convertibility of dollars into gold, making the debt meaningless; fiat money reigns supreme. But since he’s a historic villain, this action becomes suspect.
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Something that will change your life is realizing that the German word “Spätkapitalismus,” almost universally translated “late capitalism,” is just as valid rendered “capitalism, lately”. It doesn’t imply that capitalism is ending.
