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No comments onHacker News is such a sausage fest that in a thread about dating apps, most of the women who appear are purely hypothetical.
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I look forward to spotting this Kings Cross tunnel in upcoming British sci-fi movies and TV shows.
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Sandra, Interrupted
I’ll be honest, I enjoyed parts of Gimlet’s new podcast drama Sandra more than I thought I would. Basically, a young woman gets a job ‘being’ Alexa, and hijink ensue. It’s cute! Yes, it’s muddled and a knock-off of The Circle, and yes, it really doesn’t make any sense at all, but it’s fun. Yet…
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A highly-upvoted Hacker News comment linked to a post I wrote twelve years ago on The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer: a book from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age … that is powered by a computer so advanced it’s almost magical, and it teaches children everything. It does this through a fully interactive story. It teaches you how to read,…
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Ninja’s Fortnite tournament, a fascinating mix of streaming, participation, $75 paid entry, and prizes ($2500 if you kill him, $2500 if you win a game), reminds me of what broadcasters like the BBC were trying to do in the 2000s. Back then, the tech and logistics for ‘massive’ games was too expensive, but it’s finally…
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Google Maps emailed me today saying my photos had reached 500,000 views. This one from Red n Hot Szechuan restaurant has 180,000 views, mostly because it’s shown when you pan around King’s Cross.
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A GDPR omen in the Guardian today. While this is technically opt-in because users must affirmatively click “Continue” to receive emails, the strong resemblance to EU Cookie notices where everyone hammers “Continue” is surely deliberate.
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Brutal: CCP pulled out of VR game development because the reception was “even below our lowest expectations.” I’m still long-term bullish on VR, but it seems like there are several big problems to solve, one of them being the friction of just starting a game, something echoed in the interview: “The ceremony of putting on a…
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A Quiet Place, 2018 – ★★★
As entertaining and dumb as a bag of puppies in a sound-proofed box. It’s a cool premise, I’ll grant, but try as I might, I couldn’t stop thinking of bombs on windchimes. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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China, a Land of Contrasts
Extended excerpts from four recent pieces on China. It’s impossible to generalise about a country of 1.4 billion people, but there are plenty of interesting nuggets here. The quiet revolution: China’s millennial backlash (Financial Times, semi-paywalled) by Yuan Yang: Faye Lu, a Beijing-based businesswoman, chose the Chinese new year after her 30th birthday to come…
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