Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • October update

    We're now almost at the end of October which means only 2 months left in 2024. There are only 9 weeks left until Christmas!

    My SO and I went on a road trip recently and I did over 11 hours of driving, which is quite a lot. Crowded highways at night are not much fun, but when they're empty and you put on some Vaporwave or City Pop, it's an interesting experience. Especially in Japan.

  • evolution revolution.

    It's by actively participating in our own evolution that a profound change can happen in our human culture.

    There's no time to wait for government and corporation to guide us in the right direction. We have to take action ourselves.

• Politics and World Events

  • Chokepoint Capitalism, Hourglass-shaped Markets

    Chokepoint capitalism is a model of economic activity where goods flow from creators to consumers via a tightly controlled, corporate-owned channel. Chokepoints exist across a range of industries, but the current state of cultural markets in a ubiquitously digital world sees us in a situation where much of everyday life has been captured by big business.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Retro Workshop, Part 3

    Back in the summer, I laid out my then tentative plan for teaching some sort of retro computing workshop to a group of 200 level Media Studies students, loosely based on an even more retro workshop I myself had attended a short time previously, an introduction to printing with movable type[1]. I gave the workshop to a (smallish) group of students earlier this month, and here is a brief description of how it went down.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • A Constellation of Ideas

      I'm just musing on the irony that my recent tilt towards digital detoxification is what drove me to Gemini in the first place. As someone who grew up around the birth of the World Wide Web,

      So what follows is some insight into my half-baked philosophical thoughts and ideas, as things currently stand. Most of these are incomplete, and I would struggle to articulate fully these thoughts and ideas without a great deal more time and space to arrange them; it takes time to translate the language of the mind into a coherent written narrative, to make sense of the firings - and mis-firings! - of electrical connections in the brain. What occurs in the mind is often confused and nebulous, and there is more-often-than-not a period of time required for those ephemeral connections to crystallise into things that make sense, things that can be understood, and then comprehended.