Cal Newport on AI Doomerism
Cal Newport talking about the people behind AI, the people who worship AI, and how that is or isn’t relevant to normal people and their normal lives.
Aditya Bidikar
Adventures in Etymology (1)
The first in a series of etymological observations from recent reading.
Rereading Watchmen
Observations from my nth time rereading Watchmen.
Batman: Venom
Appreciation for a single panel from Batman: Venom.
Deicidium Book 1 Preview
I’m a little late posting this, since the final order cut-off for Deicidium: Returned was Monday, but …
IGN has an exclusive 26-page preview of the first Deicidium graphic novel – written by Ram V, with art by Evan Cagle and Anand RK, letters by me, and design by
Thomas Flight on Cinematography
I quite enjoy Thomas Flight’s video essays on cinema. This is a good one focusing on cinematography, and what makes for good cinematography – he narrows it down to four factors:
1. Light
2. Composition
3. Movement
4. Beauty
It’s interesting stuff, and provides a fair few touchstones for
True Detective Season 1
I started watching Lanterns recently, and it is about as adequate as you’d expect one of these things to be at this point. The era of superhero movies/tv doing anything interesting is over, at least for a little bit, and while experiencing this methadone hit,[1] I figured
Making Rumours
I’ve been reading Making Rumours, a book about the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s classic album Rumours written by sound engineer/producer Ken Caillat. I read a lot of process books – I just finished reading a book about the making of Ken Russell’s The Devils, anticipating its re-
Firmware
I occasionally read old “tech for laypeople” books for fun. They’re of course, outdated in terms of the technology they’re speaking of, but they’re often prescient on its philosophical and social repercussions, and sometimes even correct in a way we’ve lost sight of.
The one I’
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
Via Marcin Wichary’s blog, a TIL (today I learned):
Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer