Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Steely Dan Playlist

https://spoti.fi/34IItr2 Spotify is never going to get rid of Joe Rogan. The truth has now outed: “‘In 2019, our music and podcasting catalog was not that differentiated, and because of this we were locked out of deals with some critical hardware partners like Amazon, Google, and even Tesla,’ Ek said. ‘They had or were working […]

Today’s Fandom

Is not yesterday’s fandom. Every other day I have people attacking me for what I said about Taylor Swift’s performance at the Grammys over a decade ago. When I research further, I find that most of these people were barely born when this happened. But they need to defend their hero. But Taylor Swift was […]

Meta/Facebook Crash

Turns out buying your way into the future is a bad strategy. The biggest story this week for me was Facebook (I refuse to call it “Meta,” I’m on the fence with calling Google “Alphabet”) dropping out of the crypto game. Facebook wasn’t first. Facebook had infrastructure. But when confronted with the concept of Facebook […]

Re-Rogan/Spotify

Damn right Bob! And their argument is that it’s stopping “free speech”. They assume that if debated enough the truth will eventually come out. That if enough people presented different opinions then that makes the truth more accurate. What they don’t seem to want to admit is that, there’s a lot of privilege and inequality […]