Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
No article has shaken me this year the way The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society has. Really fucked my shit UP.
you could say that the entire internet is one massive victory for maximalism.
Erik Hoel • In 2025, Blogs Will Be the Last Bastion of the Good Internet
In life, erasure is a sort of luxury. In death, some platforms, like Meta or Apple, allow users to appoint a “Legacy Contact” to manage their accounts. Without that however, the law tends to prioritize the “privacy” of the deceased, making it difficult to remove anything from these accounts posthumously.
The Right to be Forgotten
I’ve really been enjoying Faith, Hope and Carnage. It’s a conversation between Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan in book form. It’s lovely. It dawned on me today that way back in the early 90s when I was a College Marketing Rep for Sony Music we worked Gideon Gaye by his band, The High Llamas. Been enjoying it today. It still holds up quite well.
Tyler Cowen and Gwern have both seen it.
'But who reviews it? Is TLS going to pick it up? It doesn't matter anymore.'
AI AI Captain and AI
I’ve sensed a thaw lately in the cosmos of letters: an energy, an urgency. Maybe it’s because people fear this might be the last good season before the end of the world, so we’d better get it all out now. Maybe it’s just because it’s spring.
Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine
How cool is this Jazz Quartet LEGO set?!
Voice is asymmetric. Speaking is high bandwidth. But listening is low bandwidth.