Watched Netflix Explained; remembered Bowie
We watched the “Code” episode of Netflix’s explained.There’s only so much that can be covered in 24 minutes, but I enjoyed the high level overview of concepts, history, and issues they presented within their constraints.
One of many iconic snippets – I may do an explainer post if I don’t find somebody else’s first – was from this 1999 interview of David Bowie. Paleofuture posted a handy transcript of the highlights.
“The internet carries the flag for the subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic and nihilistic…”
I would have been skeptical in 1999 about “nihilistic.” But after seeing things people do for the lulz? Yeah, nihilistic.
“But it’s simply a different delivery system there,” Paxman says, holding his ground. “You’re arguing about something more profound.”
“Yeah, I’m talking about the actual context and the state of content is going to be so different from anything we can envisage at the moment,” Bowie says. “With the interplay between the user and the provider will be so in sympatico it’s going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about.”
That summarizes the last twenty years, from Netflix to Facebook to 4chan to FOSS to 30-50 Feral Hogs and beyond.
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2019-11-02 Sat 01:17
I’m on my sixth page of notes for the code I’m writing.
HERE BE DRAGONS
hackers.town: 2019-11-02 Sat 01:45
Mind you I’m not saying the notes are all pure gold
hackers.town: 2019-11-02 Sat 12:38
At the dentist for crown work because priorities but been waiting a bit. Getting antsy about other tasks planned for the day.
Maybe I should have brought my laptop after all.
Oh and maybe I shouldn’t have skipped breakfast.
hackers.town: 2019-11-02 Sat 18:34
Anesthetic wore off and my jaw is very annoyed but I have shiny new crowns where there were jagged nasty bits for a couple years before.
Definitely feels like a positive step to me.
Twitter: 2019-11-02 Sat 19:01
uh oh Mrs Geek just found out about my secret stash of daddy yankee tracks
fortunately i had not worked too hard on my facade of taste and refinement so everything is cool
hackers.town: 2019-11-02 Sat 22:17
My urge to make a “utils” module for this thing is at war with the awareness that the name “utils” is only marginally better than “misc” at communicating intent.