Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (365 Albums)
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Boys and Girls in America (365 Albums)
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Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (365 Albums)
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Great Art from Bad People
I figured I should write something up about this before I start my year of music suggestions, so here we go.
I believe you can enjoy art made by bad people.
Now there is a lot of nuance there, and it's a spectrum, not a binary thing. For example, if someone I don&
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The 365 Albums Project
I'll celebrate my 37th birthday this weekend, which means I was thinking about what I wanted from the next year. One thing that came to mind was this blog and how I wanted to try something new here.
I love music, and even at the stage in life where most people seem to
Rooting for Twitter to Fail
I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate the service and they hate each
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Consider the Source
Ben Thompson in his daily update today:
First, I wrote at the beginning of the year, in the context of the Joe Rogan controversy, that tech companies needed to understand that “free speech” was no longer a defense in terms of elite culture; that statement got a lot of pushback, but this seems like confirmation
The Birchtree Newsletter, November 2022
Hello! Work has been insane lately, so I've felt behind on all Internet Things recently, but of course there are still some goodies (including a font, I see you, fellow font fanatics 😉).
Birchtree Stuff
Alright, You Wore Me Down, Give Me macOS on an iPad*For many years I’ve argued that macOS
I Don’t Think People Really Want Another Twitter
I know the most likely outcome that we all keep using Twitter the same as we always have, but there is definitely an energy about Twitter lately that has people thinking, “do I even like doing this?”
Yes, Mastodon seems the most viable direct alternative now, but I don’t see much there (“oh you’
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When to Tell Someone You Hate a Movie/Book/Game/Show They Love
Almost never.
Truly, what are you expecting to accomplish? Will your day be brightened by someone else hating something they used to love?
If someone says, "I love this thing!" and you hate it, don't feel compelled to reply that "actually, it sucked."
I'm not saying to
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The "USB-C is Too New" Argument Crumbles
Chris Hannah: The iPhone Will Switch To USB-C
When I list all the devices I use, Macs, ThinkPad, Nintendo Switch, iPad, Pixel 6, work phone (it's some Motorola Android phone), and iPhone 13, only one of them uses a port that's not USB-C. I didn't realise it
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Don't Miss Out on Your Golden Trump Award
Nick Heer: Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has continued to send out emails promising subscribers the “GOLDEN TRUMP” award if they donate money within the hour. They really sent that email. And they also sent one with the subject line “READ THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY”. And they
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Full Season Drops or Weekly Releases?
Netflix had a good quarter in Q3, and in their results (PDF), they committed themselves to releasing shows all at
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macOS Updates Just Don't Really Matter to Me
I was reading John Voorhees' excellent macOS Ventura review today and something dawned on me: none of this matters to me.
Truly, I've been using Ventura on my personal Mac all summer and Monterey on my work Mac, and I use them both exactly the same. Literally the biggest difference in my
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Pocket Casts, Open Source, and My Hope for a Second Good Podcast Player on Android
Paul Sawers: Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source
By making Pocket Casts open source, this means that anyone can access the code, fix bugs, create new features, and even fork it to build their own competing service on top of the Pocket Cast codebase.
This is great, and speaking as someone who thinks Pocket
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A Trifecta of Bozos
Charlie Warzel: The Big Tech Whiplash Is Here
Soon, we may enter an era where mercurial celebrity landlords dictate the terms of service on their own social networks—ones that are explicitly positioned against content moderation and in favor of a facile understanding of free-speech maximalism.
And:
None of these men has signaled any
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“The Algorithm” Loves Conservative Content
Katyanna Quach: YouTube more likely to recommend conservative vidoes to all
YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.
As a scummy politician once said, it’s not about what’s actually happening, it’s
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The iPad is Awesome, Actually
I recently wrote an article that had a pretty negative tone, which was only partially intended. Some people took this