I haven’t watched it through yet, but a vtuber playing one of my favourite games of all time!? It was a salve to a troubled mind. The downside to mostly following streamers from Hololive is that getting permissions can be trickier for a large agency (at least, from what I’ve been … | Continue reading
He would buy the best; But never something new. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-04-12. | Continue reading
It’s Music Monday time! Each and every etc, I something here for stuff. Today we have one of Rodriguez’s best songs from his seminal 1970 album Cold Fact. It still blows me away that this talented American singer/songwriter was huge in South Africa and Australia, but relatively o … | Continue reading
This is the penultimate post in my Melbourne 2024 series! Today we have the results of a small trip Clara and I took the day before we flew back to Sydney. I haven’t had telephoto capability for a long time, so thought it would be fun to capture some small details on various buil … | Continue reading
Notice anything? Their name isn’t on the cover! I was 15 when I realised they’re called The Beatles because it has the word Beat in it. It also took me reading Wikipedia to realise it was their first album that doesn’t mention their name anywhere on the front. I’m still coming to … | Continue reading
Today’s Music Monday is a presentation of one of the greatest songs of all time, and an apology! Ça plane pour moi was one of the songs of my childhood, and I still consider it one of the greatest of all time. When I decided to add a nonsensical Capacitive Duractance section on m … | Continue reading
Kleo I often watch the Great British Bake Off, a competition show that good-naturedly pits amateur bakers against one another. I don't bake myself, but I find the show relaxing. After 13 seasons, there are no surprises, the jokes are predictably corny, and the contestants, hosts, … | Continue reading
One of my earliest childhood memories involved being excited for the box fan my parents would put in my bedroom over summer. The gentle whirring sound of its blades cutting through the air and blowing it across the room was comforting in a way I couldn’t describe, to the point wh … | Continue reading
It’s an election year, so, well, everything must be viewed skeptically. So it was that recently an ad popped up ... [continued] The post 5 Signs To Spot Anti-Cleantech Propaganda From Seemingly Innocuous Sources appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Current and former staff say recent changes at the network have it in 'a race to the bottom' The post Workers At The Gamurs Group Of Video Game Websites Describe It As ‘Hell’ appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
As part of Sunshine week, on March 11, 2024, the Alliance joined a letter with a coalition of groups urging the New York legislature and Governor Hochul to pass a package of legislation that would strengthen New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). The post News/Media Allian … | Continue reading
What's a blacklist? How do NDAs work? Let's find out The post Games Journalism: An FAQ appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
This week’s Music Monday takes us back to the mid 1980s, and one my favourite Australian bands of the era. Electric Blue might have been the breakout song from this album, but this is the real keeper for me. I know the Rubenerd Law of Music says that everything sounds better with … | Continue reading
The company should have gone out on its own terms The post Rooster Teeth Deserved Better Than Death By Warner Brothers appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
This week, rather than focus on a single topic, I thought I would look at a couple of different things – and also point you in the direction of some other great articles I’ve read this week. First, though, something that’s a bit of a theme for me: the long-term unsustainability o … | Continue reading
Speaking of Åland in that previous Cloudflare post, this font on the side of a Bank of Åland branch is amazing, and I want it. Photo by Bahnfrend on Wikimedia Commons. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-03-05. | Continue reading
Kate Wagner wrote, for Road & Track, a exploration of Formula 1 from the perspective of a cycling journalist who does not have a driving license, and it is wonderful: One thing that strikes me about Formula 1 is its unexpected resemblance to fencing — it is an absolutely poised a … | Continue reading
This Music Monday is so smooth, I risked melting out of my chair. I submit this as further evidence for the Rubenerd Music Law, namely that everything sounds better with brass. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-03-04. | Continue reading
Or should I say, it’s missing many somethings: I can already see I’m in trouble here, because while Singapore is still around, the ground under my feet in Australia has vanished. Even Germany is gone, which throws half my genome into question. Beyond those that I can see, we’re m … | Continue reading
Even though it has only been a couple of days since word got out that Apple was cancelling development of its long-rumoured though never confirmed car project, there have been a wave of takes explaining what this means, exactly. The uniqueness of this project was plenty intriguin … | Continue reading
Media execs don’t want the sites, they just want the names The post How Stupid Do They Think We Are appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
I’ve been on a bit of an ocean liner kick again of late, as you’ve probably noticed from recent posts. They were engineering and design marvels, brought people closer together, and shaped world events with their size, speed, and splendour. Alas, researching such vessels on the we … | Continue reading
I recently watched the Academy Award nominated short documentary The ABCs of Book Banning, in which director Sheila Nevins, turns the camera on children between the ages of 8 and 16 who attend schools impacted by the wave of school book banning that has taken place in parts of th … | Continue reading
Every now and then, something reminds me that in the minds of many Westerners, there’s North America and Europe, and precious little else. Yesterday it was a meme video showing a stadium of Taylor Swift fans emptying into trains in Sydney. Many of the comments expressed surprise … | Continue reading
Today's links Vice surrenders: Literally the stupidest publishing strategy I've ever heard of (ever). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curren … | Continue reading
When I linked to Tim Burke’s indictment yesterday, I compared the ridiculousness of the case to Josh Renaud’s near-indictment for viewing the source of a webpage. I missed an obviously more analogous and equally outrageous case: that of Aaron Swartz. Sarah Jeong, of the Verge, [… … | Continue reading
I’ll admit to being one of those people who roll their eyes at billion dollar stadium upgrades, especially given the steep opportunity cost. But Jack Snape may have proved me wrong: A total of 96,000 people turned up on Friday. Then 96,000 on Saturday. And 96,000 on Sunday, highl … | Continue reading
Justin Garcia, Dan Sullivan, Jay Cridlin, and Olivia George, Tampa Bay Times: Tampa media consultant Tim Burke was charged Thursday with 14 federal crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News. […] According to the indictment, Burke and an unnamed person used “compromised … | Continue reading
Alexander Saeedy and Alexandra Bruell, Wall Street Journal: Vice Media said it would stop publishing content on its flagship website and plans to cut hundreds of jobs, following a failed effort by owner Fortress Investment Group to sell the embattled digital publisher and its bra … | Continue reading
You might have noticed a post from HouseFresh doing the rounds, especially if you have anything to do with creating content intended to generate affiliate revenue. It’s caused quite a stir, particularly among publishers. My background is in product testing. My first job in publis … | Continue reading
It's bad out there for websites written by human beings The post Google’s Search Results Are Even Worse Than We Thought appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Kara Swisher has a new book about Big Tech and how it has metastasized from its early promise to do good into something quite different. The post Tech, Trump, & Tyranny — Kara Swisher Explains How Big Tech Got Us Into This Mess appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
It’s Music Monday time! Each and every Monday (cough), I impart some information about a song, musician, or album such that we may Ravel in their artistry. No, I’m not apologising for that. Today’s installment has a fun backstory. For the last couple of years I’ve been following … | Continue reading
Clean energy is slowly but surely capturing market share from traditional fuels. In 2022, renewables generated more energy than coal ... [continued] The post What Can Cleantech Communicators Learn From Mature Sectors? 8 Tips From Marketing Pros appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Opening party (29th February 2024) & artist tour (2nd March 2024) Algorithmic Unconscious (1-3 March 1-6PM, arebyte Gallery) is a group exhibition by UCL BA Media students as a response to arebyte’s current artistic focus on The Body, the Mind, the Soul, an exploration of the com … | Continue reading
The original Yellow Book standard included a provision for CDs to hold computer data and traditional PCM audio on the same disc. The industry seemed to have coalesced on the term Mixed Mode CD, though the original standard didn’t call them that. Wikipedia also describes them as e … | Continue reading
I wonder what Tim Cook thinks of this Disney investment: Disney’s investment: Disney put $1.5 billion into Epic Games, showing they believe in Epic’s ideas. https://dataconomy.com/2024/02/08/disney-x-epic-games-did-disney-buy-fortnite/ See techmeme for more commentary. The post D … | Continue reading
I know serious TV criticism and news coverage has been in trouble for a while, like everywhere else in media, but like a frog enjoying an ever-warming afternoon bath, I wasn’t aware just how bad things had got until I started seeing news articles this month about True Detective: … | Continue reading
I occassionally find that I want to cast a browser tab from my laptop - usually to put a chart onto a display so that I can periodically glance at it. However, my laptop runs a fairly strict set of firewall rules - after all, it's a portable device and, on occasion, will connect … | Continue reading
AI’s destruction of journalism isn’t inevitable The post Stop Letting Them In The House appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Deadline: 01 June 2024 The international scholarly open access journal Arts is now inviting submissions for the Special Issue “NFTs, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Metaverse: The Web3 Revolution that Has Transformed the Art Market”. Are accepted original academic papers (6,000-8,000 … | Continue reading
A new Tesla recall has the media all in a frenzy. “Tesla recalls almost all its vehicles sold in the ... [continued] The post Another Tesla Recall Makes Big News — Yet Its Over-The-Air Fixes Don’t Get Much Love appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The failures of video game The Day Before and news outlet The Messenger echo each other The post The Public Failure Playbook appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
Bobby Allyn, NPR: Now in 2024, tech company workforces have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels, inflation is half of what it was this time last year and consumer confidence is rebounding. Yet, in the first four weeks of this year, nearly 100 tech companies, including Meta, A … | Continue reading
On the eve of Apple’s Vision Pro release, Vanity Fair published a preview from Nick Bilton. It is a fun, light-touch article, notable mostly for its photos of Tim Cook wearing the headset, answering a perplexing obsession. Bilton interviewed Cook about the Vision Pro and got a gl … | Continue reading
Two projects — the Global Mediations Lab and the MIT Swahili Studies Initiative — have won Humanities Awards. The pilot program aims to support humanities-focused, collaborative projects that can have a broad impact within SHASS or MIT, or have a substantial impact on undergradua … | Continue reading
Justin Ling, on January 12: In a hour-long special, I’m Glad I’m Dead, [George] Carlin returns to talk reality TV, AI, billionaires, being dead, mass shootings, and Trump. It premiered to horrified reviews. Carlin’s daughter called the special an affront to her father: “Humans ar … | Continue reading
Online Panel Discussion and Online Lecture Performance (7 and 15 February) CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the … | Continue reading