Author Archives: Brian Grinter
Enshittification
Eventually everything turns to shit 💩
For All Mankind – Season 4
The trailer for Season 4 of For All Mankind has dropped, looks pretty exciting.
DEF CON 31 – An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification – Cory Doctorow – YouTube
The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to “five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four” (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users – reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures – leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification.
We don’t have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking – through privacy laws and other protections – and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!
— Read on m.youtube.com/watch
The iPhone Alarm as a Piano Ballad
The iPhone Alarm as a Piano Ballad – damn that’s good.
— Read on kottke.org/23/09/the-iphone-alarm-as-a-piano-ballad
One Life
In 1938, a British stockbroker visits Czechoslovakia and forms a plan to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Wracked by guilt for five decades for those he couldn’t save, in 1988 he gets to meet the children he saved – now adults.
The story of Nicholas Winton is now a major film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins.
The real incident featured in the film can be seen on YouTube.
Indiana Jones – Behind the Scenes
A great look at the filming of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – keeping to the elements that made it such a hit from the over-the-top punch sound effects, the Wilhelm scream and de-aging Harrison Ford to his prime.
Bit annoying to learn that at least for now its digital-only streaming – hopefully Disney come to their senses for a Blu-Ray version.
Anakin vs Obiwan
Angry – Rolling Stones
61 years – new music from the Rolling Stones
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Star Wars – The Genius of John Williams
You don’t need to be able to read music to appreciate this video.