{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "The Content Lab", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2023/24/1403495.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://www.content-lab.agency/", "feed_url": "https://www.content-lab.agency/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://content.micro.blog/2026/09/08/samsung-owns-jbl-revel-bowers.html", "content_html": "

Samsung owns JBL, Revel, Bowers & Wilkins, Denon and Marantz.

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It’s absolutely wild that people still pay for the product of a company co-owned by this guy.

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I actually think Earl Butz has the better arguments here; he was of a generation (born 1909) that saw unprecedented changes in living standards due to the improvements in agriculture. Berry’s arguments to me sound weird (“city people”?).

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Karl Marx died during the U.S. presidency of Chester A. Arthur. He saw little of modernity. Treating him as an authority on anything today is like advocating for Aristotelian physics.

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Many people still define themselves against enemies who’ve vanished or are diminished, like:

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Reminder that “AGI” has no agreed-upon meaning. Saying we’ve reached it or that it’s in sight is similar to an evangelical saying that they’re “saved”; or like saying you know what Plato’s Demiurge looks like, and that he’ll soon pay us a visit.

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I guess the question is: Do we really need a weed industry? It’s medically useless and has the same social utility as candy.

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I never got into queer theory, which I admit surprised me as someone who couldn’t possibly be more of its target audience. So much of it is just hand-waving to say “you’re a sellout for advocating for same-sex marriage, you should instead be nostalgic for risking your life in 1980s New York.”

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Oedipus telling the people of Thebes he’ll catch Laius’ real killer—slipping into the singular even though his interlocutors use the plural—is what’s called “foreshadowing” in Greek tragedy, in this case of the OJ Simpson murders 2000 years later.

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Guy who thinks Fordism is named for Gerald Ford.

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This is a great paper about how western leftists will whine endlessly about colonialism but ignore it when it comes from China, which along with Russia is the most literally imperialist nation today.

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SanDisk sells a 1TB microSD Express card for $429. Less than a year ago, you could get the same capacity from Lexar for $199.

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Detailed article on why China would be the biggest loser of any shift away from the trade status quo, under which the USA serves as the consumer to last resort for China, Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea.

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“Living vicariously” means cosplaying as an Anglican vicar.

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Adjusted for inflation, a new Atari 2600 cost over $1,000 in September 1977.

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Medical marijuana is essentially useless.

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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:

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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:

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You, that too wise for pride, too good for power,
\nEnjoy the glory to be great no more,
\nAnd carrying with you all the world can boast,
\nTo all the world illustriously are lost!

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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.

\n\"This\n", "date_published": "2026-08-24T22:27:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.content-lab.agency/2026/08/24/this-david-golumbia-passage-makes.html" }, { "id": "http://content.micro.blog/2026/08/24/anecdotal-storytelling-is-exhausting-now.html", "content_html": "

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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Yeah I’m a dentist 1. My passion is sending birthday emails to patients I haven’t seen in decades.

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    I’m not. ↩︎

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Bacon sampler from The Farmhouse in Indiana

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