This Aeon piece makes the case that we are living in a golden age of mass literacy. I said as much in this thread from 2010, swinging off this IEEE Spectrum post, which argues that no media category grew as much since the 80s as text. Interestingly, DuckDuckGo finds all sorts of stuff but it…
Read More InterestingWell, this sums it up pretty well… Yes, I was there, having cried off last year on the grounds of not wanting to roll in nostalgia or spend money. And they played Elephant Stone. Also Going Down, Standing Here…so how well do you know the words? It was pretty much a multi-sensory definition of the…
Read More Music!I think it is probably important to direct attention to this post, which contains the only convincing explanation of PRISM I’ve yet seen, including the tiny budget (if it only cost $20m to process everything in Apple, Google, Facebook etc, what do they need all those data centres for), the overt denials, and the denial…
Read More PRISM. Sometimes it’s easier to solve these things in L