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adrianhon

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Former CEO and co-founder of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects

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Historians will mark the Apple “crushing art” ad as the moment when the company shed its veneer of cool and became truly, undeniably evil

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This interview with Riley Testut of Delta/AltStore is fascinating. Tons of details, plus he thinks users are more willing to pay via a Patreon to an individual creator/dev, versus an impersonal subscription for an app. https://www.theverge.com/24150467/delta-emulator-apple-app-voice-notes-ai-vergecast

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Damn, I missed this one

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<insert baudrillard simulacra meme> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/los-angeles-willy-wonka-pop-up-experience

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@Jonathanglick Certainly am! Fully in research mode right now, reading all the books and experiencing all the immersion. Already have a lot to say!

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The problem with writing a book about why immersive experiences are so big right now is that I look like an idiot when curators/directors/writers/artists say "oh then you must know about X" and I have to admit ignorance because the field is so unimaginably broad.

(Of course I could just lie and pretend I know but the entire point of this exercise is to explore and hopefully shrink the bounds of the vast sea of things I don't know, and share them with you.)

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A curator was aghast I didn't know who Refik Anadol was and seemed ready to dismiss me on the spot. I turned her around with the ridiculous amount of reading I've done on the history of panoramas, but it turned out I had seen his glorified screensaver at MOMA but didn't know his name.

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Universities aren't meant to churn out perfectly-shaped game industry workers. Companies need to step up with paid internships and better training and management of juniors.

And what about the other end of the pipeline? Too many experienced devs leaving because they're burned out and underpaid. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-calls-for-new-industry-led-body-to-solve-uk-skills-crisis

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Just read Frank Rose's 2011 book The Art of Immersion. Amazing how Hollywood kept insisting it knew how to do interactive storytelling.

James Cameron thinks he knows how games and movies can work together; Carlton Cuse (Lost) says it's about exploring worlds with Avatar-level graphics.

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@BaldSavant it sounds like they were obsessed with the world and world building and forgot to actually design a good game

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Tech sites: LOL, the Humane AI pin sucks, we've learned our lesson, there will be no more hyping of AI products

Also tech sites: This upcoming wearable AI pendant will change your life https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

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NYT opinion pieces on Trump sleeping during trial:

Bret Stephens: Consciousness is for the woke

Maureen Dowd: I once had a weekend where I didn't sleep

Ross Douthat: Trump sleeps for us all

Jamelle Bouie: What the constitution tells us about snoozing

David Brooks: The (fourth) wife of my dreams

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Did a mosaic workshop this morning, I call it The Once and Future Twitter!

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The “news subscription as games bundle” war continues https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/10/ios-17-5-apple-news-quartiles-game/

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DELIGHTED to say that my latest tech history column is live on Every and they've made this one free-to-read.

Because it covers one of the most overlooked founders of the golden age of computing: Lore Harp McGovern, founder of Vector Graphic who pioneered small/medium business computing.

She deserves to be better known. Certainly deserves more than a single paragraph on Wikipedia. Read and spread the word https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot

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@garius brilliant! Also I harvested a bit of karma from this on HN 😛

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Pivot to seismology

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I read an article, like, YESTERDAY about how "companies should just pay maintainers" is not a sufficient solution for the xz-burnt-out-maintainer-vulnerable-to-abuse problem that took a light anticapitalist lens, and now I cannot find it for the life of me. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Aside: I really need to get my bookmarking game back on track now that Maciej fell off the deep end and Pocket is being vastly underresourced by Mozilla, but that is a different problem for a different day.

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@phire I know Pinboard seems to be abandoned but what happened to Maciej?

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Mulling writing a story where misguided city planners on Mars create an AI of Robert Moses to improve their transport system only to discover they can’t control him, done as non-fiction in the style of Robert Caro.

Power Broker 2: Judgment Day

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T-minus 60 minutes for the first posts about how to build a temporary bridge in four weeks:

"in china they built a bridge in 22 minutes"
"army corps of engineers"
"at flexport we solved this"

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Sigh, I guess we’re in for another few weeks of Apple fans and tech podcasters being insufferably ignorant about the law https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24105363/apple-doj-monopoly-lawsuit

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RIP to a real one. Practically everything he wrote was decades ahead of its time, not to mention superbly entertaining and deeply humanist. https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

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Lots of people sharing their love of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, but don't miss Rainbows End.

It's perhaps a less successful story but remains, after almost two decades, the best description of what augmented reality games and ARGs might do to the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

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Just ended up in the Apple Store this afternoon and saw a midnight black 15" Macbook Air.

Oh, the shiny!

I lost my saving throw, so of course I had to buy one ... for @feorag . (I'm not ready to replace my M1Pro MBP, dammit, but F needs a new laptop and end-of-accounting-year is looming.)

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@cstross Studio Display isn’t a big improvement IMO. I haven’t compared the specs but I went the same path - it looks nice, decently bright, nice set of ports, but nothing to write home about

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Did Walter Benjamin come up with “you're not the customer, you're the product" in this passage about covered shopping arcades?

“The flâneur sabotages the traffic. Moreover, he is no buyer. He is merchandise.”

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One of them destroys the commons in favour of an environmentally unfriendly, isolating, private interaction and the other is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

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