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The Backrooms as Permissive IP | Weeknotes #442
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
Back Again (Again)
Another week’s weeknotes coming to you on a Tuesday evening.
5 Days Away
My trip to Berlin was good, whilst in Germany I explored a cottage in the woods that hasn’t been touched since the GDR. wild!
HNY 2025
This half-decade has felt like a protracted liminal state: sclerotic stagnation atop a decade of pointless austerity.
Apple Intelligence Is Fine
I got Apple Intelligence on my MacBook today. It works—right-click to summarise, rewrite, or proofread text. But this once-magical tech is already mundane, baked seamlessly into workflows.
Generalist Mode
The last few episodes of my podcast have been some what experimental – this week was no exception. #learningmode.
Shape Thief | 2426
I’ve become a shape thief. Pirating the real world, acquiring artworks, and taking them home.
Destination, Distraction
It’s very much a question of destination, distraction, and pooling of energy, and flow.
That AI Art Debate
The ‘AI Art’ debate has been raging across every social media Terrain since Ted Chiang’s Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art came out in the New Yorker last week.
The Alms Race: A Brief History of Web2
The Alms Race: The escalating development of product features providing direct financial plumbing (and community) tools to users occurring across the legacy Web2 ecosystem.
A Machine-Made Mirror
Until the other day I hadn’t come across any obvious LLM written media. To have the first one I encounter *BE ABOUT ME* is surreal and weird.
How to Watch Youtube Faster Than 2x Playback Speed
It has been a deep ongoing frustration of mine that Youtube’s video player caps out at 2x playback speed. Here’s how to go faster
AI Good Content Week
It’s been a good week for sensible AI content, here’s some things that I think are worth checking out on the subject.
Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
Stars
I came across a new (to me) performance of Eriks Esenvalds’ Stars. It’s one of my favourite choral pieces.
Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
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