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  • It is interesting, isn’t it, that these supposedly deeply considered philosophical movements that emerge from Silicon Valley all happen to align with their adherents becoming disgustingly wealthy.

    Effective obfuscation by Molly White

    → 5:11 PM, Nov 26

  • The rich are bad for the Earth, and the richer they are the bigger their adverse impact (including the impact of money invested in banks, and stocks financing fossil fuels and other forms of climate destruction).

    Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble by Rebecca Solnit

    → 5:11 PM, Nov 23

  • 🔗 The interested normie’s guide to OpenAI drama

    → 10:58 AM, Nov 23

  • Given the fact that many Western fiscal systems do not burden their wealthy to the same degree they once did, it seems probable that the bill for the Covid-19 crisis will weigh on the shoulders of the rich to an extremely low degree relative to the burden during past crises.

    What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty.)

    → 5:15 PM, Nov 22

  • 📝 New blog post: Record GPS tracks and Geo-tag Photos on iPhone

    Left side shows a screenshot of Geotag Photos Tagger app which shows a grid of tiles, each tile shows a map of the route and name and date; the right side shows the details of the route with the mapped photos overlayed the route and at the bottom it says 54 photos not geotagged and a green Tag button

    → 8:39 PM, Nov 19

  • Europavox Day 2: Bipolar Feminin, The Haunted Youth, KOIKOI, Ada Oda at Wuk, Vienna.

    Singer sitting on stage, playing guitar and singing into a microphone, other band members are in the background, the lighting is blue

    Band playing on stage, singer playing guitar and singing into microphone, in the background keyboard player and other musicians; heads of members of the crowd are in front

    Guitarist and bassist holding their instruments up to form a X; the light is blue and green

    Singer sitting on the shoulders of the bassist

    → 4:44 PM, Nov 19

  • Europavox Day 1: shame, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, Pom Poko and MNNQNS at Wuk, Vienna.

    Singer screaming into microphone, background is green and yellow lights, the singer is more violet

    Singer singing into microphone with one hand raised, the other hand is holding a drum stick; the light brown/greyish

    Singer singing into microphone and holding the microphone stand in both hands, other band members are in the background; the lighting is blue

    Bassist playing on the stage, other band members are visible in the background, the lighting is pinkish/violet

    → 6:06 PM, Nov 18

  • 📸 Stadtwanderweg 4a

    Wooden sign saying “Stadtwanderweg 4a”, behind is a forest with leaves turning green yellow

    → 10:49 PM, Nov 13

  • My Ugly Clementine at Arena, Vienna.

    Band playing on stage, bassist is singing into a microphone, two guitarists facing each other. In the background are the words “My Ugly Clementine” in neon color.

    Guitarist rocking hard and shaking her her, very dark a single light cone shining from the bottom left

    Black and white photo of a guitar player, she wears a white dress; a hand from the audience is visible blurry in the front

    → 1:18 PM, Nov 11

  • Perhaps wellness, if we are to embrace its full potential, should dispense with the fantasy that we should always be fit and chipper, or strive to be. Perhaps it is far healthier to agitate against the circumstances making us sick and miserable than it is to latch our hopes to another glossy promise.

    ‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness by Katherine Rowland

    → 11:50 AM, Nov 7

  • Yves Tumor at Ottakringer Brauerei, Vienna

    Band on stage in front of a crowd, very dark, the musicians are just shapes, the lighting is blue and red

    → 11:14 AM, Nov 7

  • Remember when a while ago Microsoft seemed to become less evil, even likeable at times. This era is over.

    www.theverge.com/23930960/…

    → 9:14 AM, Oct 25

  • This guy should probably delete his account

    www.404media.co/bandcamp-…

    → 5:11 PM, Oct 24

  • The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

    This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

    → 4:40 PM, Oct 24

  • The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

    Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka

    → 9:53 AM, Oct 12

  • Alex Lahey at Chelsea, Vienna

    Singer playing guitar and screaming into a microphone, on the right side of the image a bass player is playing her bass and singing into a microphone, and in the background there are drums and another guitar player

    → 10:05 PM, Oct 2

  • I really like the record from Romy (from The xx). Favourite track so far is The Sea 💯

    romyromyromy.bandcamp.com/album/mid…

    → 12:25 PM, Sep 14

  • If the political left ignores this underlying systemic issue, it would end up echoing European liberals who are not questioning the privatized power of the owners of big tech, but merely bemoan the fact that their profits are not generated under European ownership.

    The Left Needs To Stop Idolizing The GDPR by Malte Engeler

    → 10:04 AM, Sep 14

  • Waves Day 3: The Crab Apples, Laura, Soft Loft, Anna Mabo, Night Tapes

    Rock band on stage, bassist in the background, singer jumping in the air with her air whirling around and the guitarist with her back to the crowd

    Singer on stage, she is holding the microphone up, orange lighting, low ceiling, the keyboard player is standing in the background

    Rock band on stage, singer with guitar in the middle, second guitarist on the right focused on playing and the bassist is jamming along, drummer in the background is also singing in a mic; crowd is visible in the front

    Band on stage, singer is wearing white overalls and playing guitar, drummer in the background and a contra bass player on the right

    Shot from balcony down to the stage, singer has her arms spread, lots of gear laying around, guitarist and bassist have their back turned to the crowd

    → 10:54 AM, Sep 10

  • Waves Day 2: Ferielle, Moira and Oscar Lang

    Singer standing on stage in front of a brick wall, guitarist is standing next to her

    Large band on stage, woman playing keyboard and singing, guitarist, violinist, drummer and contra bass player

    Very dark room, band playing on stage, bluish lights, but the band is barely visible, crowd in front as black shapes

    → 10:50 AM, Sep 10

  • Waves Day 1: Cousines Like Shit and Annie Taylor

    Guitarist and singer facing each other, both wearing the same velveteen onesie. In the background the drummer is seen and the lighting is violet.

    Guitarist singing into a microphone on stage, looking in the camera; lighting is reddish and violet

    → 10:48 AM, Sep 10

  • This is the essence of the North America-centric ‘Europecore’ trend that exploded this summer. This is not so much about the reality of Europe, but about a romanticized view of a ‘European’ way of life.

    the plight of the vibe tourist by Alexi Gunner

    → 10:02 AM, Sep 5

  • Waves Vienna does not share a playlist with all the artists on Apple Music, so I made one. Or to be more precise, I let SongShift make me one

    music.apple.com/at/playli…

    → 12:45 PM, Sep 1

  • Daisy The Great at Chelsea, Vienna

    Woman playing piano and in the middle of a turning motion looking into the camera; on the left another woman playing bass guitar, the light is green

    → 10:28 PM, Aug 31

  • Liza Anne at Chelsea, Vienna

    Woman playing guitar and singing into a microphone while standing on stage, the lighting is violet.

    → 10:27 PM, Aug 31

  • This is awesome. A list of the most foundational blog posts on web development

    esif.dev

    → 7:28 PM, Aug 30

  • I also photographed some pretty moss

    Silvergreen bryum moss growing in a forest, trees in the backgroundbank haircap moss from the top

    → 7:25 PM, Aug 30

  • We went hiking and foraging on Saturday in Styria and we found a lot of chanterelles and saw so many spiders.

    Stream running down through the forest, lots of green, bushes and green and the water is flowing downhillSpider web between two trees with a spider sitting thereA couple of chanterelle mushrooms growing between some grass

    → 7:23 PM, Aug 30

  • When you take the train from Vienna to Villach or Graz you will reach after one hour one of my favorite train travel sections in Austria: on left side you will see valleys and mountains and forests and castle ruins and on the right side the train will kiss the rock walls.

    View of a train window, parts of the tracks in the foreground, in the back a valley with hills surrounding it and lots of forestsTrain traveling through a bend, so you can see the preceding wagons, currently traveling over a stone bridge, lots of green and hills in the background

    → 3:04 PM, Aug 25

  • New book haul

    Stack of books on a desk: Kink, The Once and Future Witches, Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow, The Change, and Tokyo Ueno Station.

    → 5:18 PM, Aug 23

  • For some, that’s a welcome invitation to test the autonomous vehicles’ limits. Megan, a woman in her 20s, took her first robotaxi ride on a recent late-night excursion. It was also her first time having sex in a driverless vehicle.

    San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It by Liz Lindqwister

    → 10:51 AM, Aug 17

  • AMP was, in many ways, a step backward for the web. […] But it was fast. And to Google, that was all that mattered.

    Speed Trap by David Pierce

    → 2:25 PM, May 9

  • Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.

    AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are by Naomi Klein

    → 2:25 PM, May 9

  • Vienna, 07.05.2023

    In the center a footpath leads to a passageway through a building, the building is light yellow, on the left are flower baskets and a tree, on the right there are benches and shrubs; the building is in the sun and light, the foreground is in the shadow and dark

    Building with a green turret with a clock on each side, most of the building is hidden by trees, but the turret is in clear view in the center

    Facade of an Vienna Altbau building with flower baskets on the window sill and greener sprouting from it

    Stone arcade, on the left are columns covered in yellow posters, the building is rather old, a couple of people are walking through the arcade with their back to the camera; the sun is shinning

    → 3:27 PM, May 7

  • Roughly three months ago I stopped smoking and this means I saved some money, which I used to buy myself a present:

    Man’s arm with a brown flannel shirt sleeve and a dive watch from Baltic with a steel band and a blue dial.

    → 8:50 AM, Apr 4

  • Recently I discovered some new Austrian artists I like and thought I share them:

    florian.ec/blog/aust…

    → 9:33 PM, Mar 27

  • Lola Marsh at Flex, Vienna

    The band Lola Marsh on stage at Flex in Vienna, the singer is in the middle, on the left a keyboard player, guitar and bass player on the right and drums in the back. The light is pink-yellowish, in the back of the stage the band name is written. In the foreground the crowd is visible.

    → 9:11 PM, Mar 26

  • Finished reading: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 📚

    → 8:54 PM, Feb 25

  • Morzinplatz, Vienna

    A park at night, illuminated by street lights, in the background two large office buildings with the lights in many of the windows

    → 10:07 PM, Feb 16

  • How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much.

    God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter by Paul Ford

    → 1:21 PM, Feb 14

  • Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being you are infinitely powerful, and take responsibility for this tremendous power. Even our smallest actions have potential for great change, positively or negatively, and the way in which we all conduct ourselves within the world means something. You are anything but impotent, you are, in fact, exquisitely and frighteningly dynamic, as are we all, and with all respect you have an obligation to stand up and take responsibility for that potential. It is your most ordinary and urgent duty.

    Nick Cave

    → 8:52 PM, Feb 8

  • ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter.

    We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by Dan McQuillan

    → 9:24 AM, Feb 7

  • 📝 New blog post: Effective Remote Work by James Stanier (2022)

    → 10:11 PM, Jan 29

  • 📝 New blog post: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner (2022)

    → 12:10 PM, Jan 29

  • Table tennis

    Table tennis table in a park at night, illuminated by a street light, snow is on the ground and table. A brick wall is in the background.

    → 9:51 AM, Jan 29

  • I’m preparing a job posting at the moment and I’m going to replace every instance of “Frontend” with “Web” and change the ordering of skills to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (previously it was JavaScript, HTML, and CSS).

    → 11:57 AM, Jan 26

  • Finished reading: High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove 📚

    However influential and innovative this book has once been, it seems outdated now. Instead you should read a more modern management book that took its good ideas and brought them into the 21st century.

    → 7:46 AM, Jan 17

  • 📝 New blog post: My Favorite Albums of 2022

    → 10:34 PM, Jan 11

  • Trash

    trash can fixed to the railing if a stair, illuminated by a street light. in the background there is a concrete building with graffiti

    → 11:52 PM, Jan 10

  • Your personal website is a place that provides immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission.

    The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott

    → 4:54 PM, Jan 10

  • Finished reading: RCE by Sibylle Berg 📚

    → 10:17 PM, Jan 8

  • A foggy day at Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna

    A fallen tree in the woods, covered by moss, brown leaves on the ground, very foggy and nearly no visibility

    → 9:14 PM, Jan 8

  • Nibelungenbrücke, Linz

    Black and white photo, a bridge with a car on it in the left side, the right shows the Danube at night and an illuminated building in the background; it is foggy

    → 11:36 PM, Jan 7

  • Exactly five years ago. There was still snow back then.

    Me standing on a ski slope, leaning on my poles, wesring red ski pants, black jacket and a black hat; sunny day, a couple of clouds in the sky

    → 1:42 PM, Jan 6

  • 📸 New blog post: Budapest in December

    Empty street, some people are sitting on a stone wall before a lawn and some bushes; a man is looking and walking towards a statue (out of frame); in the distance a church with three spines

    → 10:52 AM, Jan 6

  • Sometimes you discover a band through the news of their breakup. Today that would be For Tracy Hyde.

    → 10:46 AM, Jan 6

  • Inner City, Vienna

    Taken from a rooftop, the picture shows building and a church in the background a bit after sundown. The lighting is pinkish, the sky is still a bit blue.

    → 5:03 PM, Jan 5

  • And lastly my top track of 2022 was Cellophane (Brain) by Middle Kids, followed by Working for the Knife (Mitski), Be Sweet (Japanese Breakfast), Woman (Angel Olsen), and Hardline (Julien Baker)

    Last.fm Top Track &10;Cellophane (Brain) by Middle Kids (67 scrobbles) &10;With 67 scrobbles you've scrobbled this track more than 33% of other users with the same top track this year.

    → 11:56 AM, Jan 3

  • The top album was Laurel Hell (Mitski), followed by Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Big Thief), MY WOMAN, Big Time (both Angel Olsen), and Thirstier (TORRES).

    Last.fm Top Album &10;Laurel Hell by Mitski (396 scrobbles) &10;With 396 scrobbles you've scrobbled this album more than 66% of other users with the same top album this year.

    → 11:55 AM, Jan 3

  • In 2022 the artist I listened most to was Angel Olsen. Followed by Mitski, TORRES, Japanese Breakfast, and Big Thief.

    Last.fm Top Artist &10;Angel Olsen (962 scrobbles) &10;With 962 scrobbles you've scrobbled this artist more than 85% of other users with the same top artist this year.

    → 11:54 AM, Jan 3

  • Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you’re not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can’t?

    The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton

    → 11:32 AM, Jan 3

  • Altes AKH, Vienna

    Path lit by street lights shortly after dusk, there are trees and bushes on each side of the path, a building is in the background. Pretty dark, but the sky is still dark blue

    → 4:03 PM, Jan 1
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