Black Mirror
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- What Kind of Day Has It Been … Daniel Ortberg’s infamous “What if phones but too much” description of the Black Mirror series. We keep putting Internet in things and I am not quite sure …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … I feel like this sometimes happens to me when people who’re familiar with one facet of my work ask if I watch Black Mirror and I feel …
- What’s the target? … of an entire industry, then even if we didn’t have episodes of Black Mirror to slyly reference, we’d have reasonable grounds for suspicion and distrust. Everything …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … In 2018, CES is an event that feels more like an elaborate Black Mirror LARP. This year was the year it felt like everything got connected. I didn …
- Division by Infinity … Mallory Ortberg wasn’t wrong when she described Black Mirror as “What if phones, but too much”[1]. But she wasn’t entirely right, either - she could've …
- End of Process … Today is the day that I formally discovered the composer Max Richter, whose work I'd encountered in bits and pieces (the first Netflix season of Black Mirror …
- Random Walk; Black Design … Nosedive and Playtest, and I *think* I have a vague idea for, I don't know, Extended Editions, of the ideas in the Black Mirror universe. The premise …
- The Generative Surplus … Robot, Westworld, Black Mirror, Scorpion, and, well, everything else. Anyway, let's get straight in to things. 1.0 The Generative Surplus / Fractional Creative Generation Here are the …
- Tiny Brains Mewling In All The Things … No, that's just a bad Black Mirror spec script. No, this is the age-old problem of having developed an audience (for certain sizes of audience) and …
- The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck … A sort of "what if capitalism and contracts, but too much"[2] style Mallory Ortberg retort of Black Mirror, I suppose. And Black Mirror *does* - well, I think …
- The New Normal … a little bit like the National Anthem opening episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, which by this point if you're American you're probably sick of …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … And again, the particular kind of interface that I'm railing against is the laziness and tyranny of the screen, of the black mirror[3] that we gaze …
- The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness … This is probably just another prompt to watch Charlie's Brooker's excellent Black Mirror. 4. What I've actually been spending my time on I found it …