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- Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy … You want more? Find out about and register for upcoming shows , plus watch previous shows on YouTube . 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Adjust …
- Just the Links … The show page has got previous recorded episodes (you can see those on YouTube , too), as well as details of upcoming shows you can register for. Coming up …
- The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat … The show page has got previous recorded episodes (you can see those on YouTube , too), as well as details of upcoming shows you can register for. Coming up …
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … YouTube just arbitrarily turned on Shorts and maybe you can turn them off now? And yes, the argument is “well there’s a bunch of good stuff on …
- Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy … You can see previous episodes on YouTube . We have great guests. With Ted, I’m also running the media and civics track at AtmosphereConf 2026 on March 26th …
- A Software Strategy … News with a Community - YouTube ( archive.is ), 8 August, 2025 ↩
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … Nobody thinks they can create a self-driving car by just training it on whatever videos they can find on YouTube or wherever of people driving cars. The …
- I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something … Pro and iOS 11(!), which I can’t find on Apple’s official YouTube channel, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ here’s this instead . ↩︎ I mean, it’s an example. It …
- Babel Notices; Our Scientists Recommend We Research Fusion Power; An Unusually Diverse and Complex Technology Estate; Neurodevelopmental Disorders … Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Ben Stiller - YouTube ( archive.is ) ↩︎
- The Great Social Network Heist … Bookwyrm , a not-goodreads; Pixelfed , a not-Instagram; Lemmy , a not-Reddit; Otter , a not-Pinterest; PeerTube , a not-YouTube This is anecdata: I don’t use any …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … software vendor’s mouth! ↩︎ Software agent - Wikipedia ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987) - YouTube ( archive.is ) ↩︎ The Jackpot Trilogy ( archive.is ) ↩︎ » The Last Express The Digital Antiquarian ( archive …
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually … And we’re all getting older / and the clouds are moving on with every autumn breeze... ↩︎ How It's Made - Wikipedia ( archive.is ) ↩︎ How It's Made - YouTube …
- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI … what happens if you write “No Copyright Intended” in the description of your YouTube video. There’s the argument that slurping up everything that’s out there is …
- What We Predict; Rods for Looking at God; Tactical Auditorium … Enemy Territory - YouTube ( archive.is ), People Make Games, 29 August, 2019 ↩︎ Pointing Control - NASA Science ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Top Gun Maverick — GMUNK ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Revamped Nostalgia in Joseph Kosinski …
- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) … For that, there's a video on YouTube [3] . Assuming this isn't an elaborate prank, what really caught my attention is the quality of the generated text …
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … Working Data ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Enemy of the state - Freeze,Rotate,Zoom,Focus,Enhance! - YouTube ( archive.is ) ↩︎ Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the incredible story of Gorgon Stare ( archive.is …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … You'll note I'm not including Tiktok or Instagram or even YouTube -- I think in this instance, because those platforms aren't text-based and aren't …
- Weird VR or, Make VR Fun; Heated seats; You don't see the unsuccessful long tail … Beast having a 6-person team just working on YouTube thumbnails [4] . Even more incredibly, thumbnails are planned before the video is filmed . (Or is that before the …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … It could show up in Instagram, it could show up in Twitch, it could show up in YouTube and so on. It could, like I mentioned yesterday, show …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … If Google wanted to do this, then "knowing how to YouTube" was a pretty good asset, and Google already has unrivaled capacity at the edge, or as us …
- This was not the future we were promised^w sold … inserted into the stream in post), the whole thing used existing distribution infrastructure (YouTube, Telegram) and super cheap workers. It was, in my mind, a bit of a …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … The tech answer to this, of course, is somewhere along a continuum that includes “watch a YouTube video”, and one extent of which might be near “stick on …
- News you can use; the Finocene … people you like and just throw money at them, just pretend you're YouTube Original Content I guess and do that thing where you cast teen crush Julia …
- Do Not Recommend … But it also means that if you have YouTube on your Apple TV, then hey, good luck! No sticking YouTube behind a PIN! It's all or nothing …
- The Games Google Plays … Or they could still go the YouTube route and offer hosting for games (and at this point, only to major publishers and indies, I guess) that allows anyone …
- Talking to people is fun … the Ticks Tock, we have the Facebooks Live, we have Twitch, we have YouTube streaming and so on and so on. So I suppose the kind of transgressive …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … A TV show? A film? A YouTube show? A videogame? What videogame? What’s the videogame about? Something on their own, or something with us? Being intentional about …
- 3D engines eating the world; Jobs for computers; Digital Transformation by Degree … They have a trailer you can watch on Youtube ! Hang on, some of these features sound like... 3D game engine features? I'm pretty sure I remember Epic …
- Strategy UX; Numérasse, Very Specific 3D Game Engine Aesthetics, Humming … had a pretty famous-amongst-certain-circles concept called Charmr (and there's YouTube video [5] ), that came out in 2007 as a (sorry) reimagining of what compassionate …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … DRessing Any PErson (SIGGRAPH 2012), on YouTube ↩︎ Grandma’s Cooking Secret , Snopes, 9 November 1999. 1999 !. ↩︎ It’s because the oven wasn’t big enough. ↩︎ Software Archaeology , Wikipedia …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … It’s called the Sideline Viewing System, and of course there’s a YouTube video ). It’s also not like the U.S. Army signed a contract with …
- The Device Becomes The App? … that, but by all accounts it’s working pretty well in all those YouTube and TikTok videos of people doing amazing graphical work on an iPad? And I …
- Mist, everywhere … There is, of course, a product video on YouTube . Caught my attention because: oh, wow, yeah, computers and software and killing. Exasperated Sarah Connor sound . Oh wait, this …
- Three Things … One of my favorite YouTube channels is the Disney Research Hub where they post videos of all the… research… they’ve been doing. It’s pretty amazing? The …
- Titles, am I right? … This is just like when I realized that I needed to create a specific Google account to use with the Apple TV’s YouTube app so the kids …
- That feeling of being there … For the younger people, “pop-up video” was a format on MTV, which was a linear television channel that played music videos (like a YouTube channel playlist), with …
- The ATCR Boundary … imagine that the leaders at youtube, twitter, facebook, and instagram got together and decided that they would all stop suggesting/promoting content via algorithmic feeds for the next …
- Learning the world … Downthread from the original tweet, Paddy Leerssen also points to YouTube content creators “ starting their own data collection to test the hypothesis ” of bias in YouTube’s trending …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … Even with our pseudo-centralized effective monopoly of Youtube as a searchable video provider, its metadata is crap and its monetization is a bit of a crapshoot. Imagine …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … 2019, television is not free unless it’s been ripped and stuck on YouTube or wherever and newspapers if they even exist anymore are increasingly behind paywalls too …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … respect intellectual property rights Will Sommer @willsommer YouTube banned Sebastian Gorka because he won't stop playing Imagine Dragons on his channel. https://t.co/7Jiuvd0Jda November 5th …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … We have walkthroughs on YouTube - which are great! - but walkthroughs then become frustrating in a different way, where now I know what I need to do, but I …
- Snow Crashing … They are just like YouTube ContentID daemons! Turns out, though, that the daemons weren't after Hiro, who thought they were coming after him because his shitty Bigboard …
- Breaking the rules … I mean, great, right? It sounds a bit like that Grammarly or whatever ad you get in front of YouTube videos. So far, so… well-intentioned but about …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … They've made some executive decisions like coming down hard on curation versus algorithmic selection of content (see James Bridle's excellent earlier essay on YouTube, that something …
- Division by Infinity … Applied ethics - Wikipedia [1] Poetic Naturalism - Preposterous Universe [2] Poetic Naturalism (Sean Carroll) - YouTube [3] Maybe You're Not an Atheist–Maybe You're a Naturalist Like Sean …
- It Looks Like You're Trying To Write A Newsletter … Sure, taxi drivers use them, and apparently they're super big in Russia [citation needed] according to YouTube [ah, okay then] because people in Russia apparently drive crazily …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … recommendation "based on deep learning technology" for a new video recommendation system for YouTube, which I instantly (if uncharitably) rephrase as a submission to arxiv titled "Novel Deep …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? … at the level of, "you know, teenagers watch a lot of video on YouTube". But anyway. Yes. It'd be nice to not have to start from first …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … The Next 100 Years of Flight Starts Here - YouTube [5] Lockheed Martin - The Next 100 Years - YouTube [6] Lockheed Martin: We're Engineering a Better Tomorrow - YouTube [7 …
- Of Course I Still Love You … And that would be something. [0] CRS-8 Dragon Technical Webcast - YouTube [1] We choose to go to the Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2.0 APPLE Over …
- On Advertising. Again. … What's worse is that because of those YouTubes and Twitters and Facebooks and the fact that it's easier than ever before for culture to speak unto …
- Everything … what's going to happen next? Who's going to be more accurate? A Machine that can look at everything and spontaneously start recognising cats in YouTube videos …
- Typing, Continued … Age of Ultron + Subtraction.com [4] Marvel's Avengers Age of Ultron UI Reel - YouTube [5] Territory Studio [6] Max Borenstein - IMDb [7] ▶ MINORITY REPORT | Visions Of Murders …
- Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice … Hall and Oates - YouTube [3] I'm looking at you, New Consistent Ribbon Experience in Microsoft Office [4] https://poetica.com 2.0 Digital Media I'm just …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … is the availability of YouTube instrumental tutorials a net good thing or bad thing for music teacher jobs? One of the examples of high-speed internet links was …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … and trust to start changing that culture, then I don't know what YouTube is, I'll ask my fourteen year old neighbour and maybe she can tell …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … Pretty much the same kind of thing as the various automated DRM takedown systems like Content-ID used on networks like YouTube that - as we know - consistently result …
- We Will Sell it To You Wholesale … easier with this one weird trick - Paul Raven [3] You Will - Wikipedia [4] You Will - YouTube -- 8:02pm. See you tomorrow. As ever - send me notes. Best, Dan
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … of what happened when Google bought YouTube, only, as pointed out by my friend - we know what happened when Google bought YouTube. So, here's who didn't …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … stop going to the movies because you can watch them for free on YouTube, or you don't need to subscribe to the newspaper anymore because of Google …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … you think single-camera amateur YouTube shows are a big thing? Imagine live streaming from an Oculus Rift instance, and allowing people to drop by. This is like …
- The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities … You would get a very different view of YouTube, I feel, that I've always maintained is just TV transposed onto a newer, bittier medium. But the internet …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … and publications, but apparently, you could opt to "entertain yourself using free movies, YouTube videos, [use] streaming services like Pandora and [get news] from Google and save half …
- The Material (5) - What It Wants; Transmedia Is Dead! … my mark, turn those keys and hey - you've uploaded your video to YouTube and set it free. And then the algorithms go to town, devouring it, mining …
- Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry … is streaming and my eyes are itching because I don't know, allergies. YouTube didn't stream In The Night Garden to the Apple TV because I don …
- And Then It Came Back; Meek, Meeker, Meekest … instead their only mention is in the production of the best ad on YouTube. Instead we get Fitbits, Runkeepers and MyFitnessPals in more evidence that it's the …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … And then we will invent *comments*, which were like a proto-form of YouTube comments only they weren't quite as nonsensical and not quite as mean (apart …
- Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology … Back then, of course, the future was in bits, not bits-and-atoms, and the palpable excitement of connecting people pre-Wikipedia, pre-YouTube, pre-Facebook and essentially …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … witness the constant rise of new YouTube stars. Social networks and mobile started to satisfy the next tier of love and belonging. As Moore's law pushed us …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … music video that became the first to have over a billion views on YouTube, "becoming a globalization phenomenom". Of this, Noursalehi says "it is without doubt a marker …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … On the other hand, the disruption that *is* happening is in the talent and content pipeline - properties like Welcome to Nightvale and Popular YouTube Vloggers are growing respectable …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … I know about expectations and YouTube videos). Brendan Eich stepped down as CEO of Mozilla because it turns out that your protected first amendment rights of free speech …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … As yet, there is *still* no way to search across competing video providers - only the Tivo comes close, allowing you to search amongst YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and your …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … I'm not quite sure what Google's doing with all the video that's being uploaded to YouTube, but I hope they're working on a way …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … music (mostly, the role of YouTube in proliferating the odd bit of international music like Gangnam style notwithstanding and the constant import of new European genres), movies, microcode …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … 1] http://developer.android.com/wear/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ3y902DEQ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqZl2QIz0c [4] http://slashdot.org/story/01 …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … rest of the world that's been exposed to this little site like YouTube is a bit like this one horse telling this other horse that's still …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … removing the limitations of "fixed durations" and "transmission slots" isn't a new form of storytelling, especially when your audience is familiar with YouTube. It's fucking looking …
- Everything's Made Of Blocks; How The World Works; Advances In Quantification … people involved were still *intending* to build a system that recognised features in YouTube videos. They may very well not know *how* it recognises cats, but that's …
- Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On … Duh.) [1] https://twitter.com/r4isstatic/status/435920387990622209 [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR1xDBFdRZ0 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D9Xq3Xr8aE [4] http://tvtropes.org …
- I Miss Dopplr, InfiniFriends … At some point, these are going to be spat out to YouTube and then people are going to freak out, because algorithmically generated drama is going to be …