Brad Barrish

@bradbarrish

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Everything on TikTok is just kind of mediocre, because nobody watches anything for very long, so there’s no reason to make anything very good. And increasingly, this endless, relentless feed of bland mediocrity is eating every other type of cultural consumption in America.

A few cultural thoughts

Short attention span theater and Your attention please

Find research that.. has nothing to do with what you’re working on, but is interesting looks like what you’re interested in, but is different in content is similar to what you’re interested in, but is very different is in a very different discipline or medium, but has a similar idea to... See more

“All power-holders, even the most ruthless and corrupt, rely on the consent and coöperation of ordinary people,” Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored a book with Chenoweth titled “Why Civil Resistance Works,” said.

Julia Angwin • So You Want to Be a Dissident? | the New Yorker

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

msp.ucsd.edu

Papers and Music

Very often I sit, with my laptop open in front of me, staring at the mountain of emails I have in Gmail, most of which I could give a fuck about. And I get mad. I get mad because Google makes it impossible for me to whitelist instead of blacklist senders. And then I start thinking about switching away from Google. I really do want to. But it’s so

★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater

John Gruber daringfireball.net

AI AI Captain

The Making of Judd Apatow, by Cameron Crowe

Jake Nevins interviewmagazine.com

The odd & antique thing about tariffs is that they only apply to physical goods, even as more & more of the economy has become intangible. For the U.S., this is very convenient. What do we export? Software, light as air.

Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol