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🎵 Lovesexy (Prince): collect.readwriterespond.com
","summary":"","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/lovesexy-prince/","date_published":"2026-02-28T02:34:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-28 02:34","date_timestamp":1772246048,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84783904","content_html":"REVIEW: Departure(s) (Julian Barnes) ![\"Mostly](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Compost-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: David Bowie – A Life (Dylan Jones) ![\"Genius](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Bowie-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Revolution – Prince, The Band, The Era (James Campion) ![\"The](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Band-is-family-900x506.jpg\")
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Pastiche, Nostalgia, and the Ghosts of the 80s ![\"I](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Gibson-on-Eras-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Awkwardness – A Theory (Alexandra Plakias) ![\"Awkwardness](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Awkwardness-1-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Supercommunicators (Charles Duhigg) ![\"If](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Supercommunicators-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Fredric Jameson) ![\"Today](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Narrative-or-Commercial-900x506.jpg\")
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\nIt’s not often I link directly to a LinkedIn post. However, the author of this, Ben Cohen, doesn’t seem to have posted it elsewhere, so needs must. Cohen also doesn’t cite the original source of the analysis he references, but it looks like it comes from an OpenAI report entitled Identifying and scaling AI use cases
6 AI use case primitives | Thought Shrapnel by Dr Doug Belshaw
\n \nDoug, I cannot help thinking about your work on digital literacies alongside the use cases.
\nYou can shake up the water and oil all you like, but it always settles back down the same way?
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/6-ai-use-case-primitives-thought-shrapnel/","date_published":"2025-06-20T23:59:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-20 23:59","date_timestamp":1750463989,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"65801411","content_html":"REVIEW: An Immense World (Ed Yong) ![\"Perhaps](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Anthropomorphism-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Careless People (Sarah Wynn-Williams) ![\"Turn](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Careless-People-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Unsettled (Kate Grenville) ![\"Guilt](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Guilt-900x506.jpg\")
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@thoughtshrapnel created a page on both sites with a shortcode to display the latest post tagged ‘colophon’. You can find the pages here and here. Thank you for the provocation.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mrkrndvs/62947908","date_published":"2025-04-25T06:31:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-25 06:31","date_timestamp":1745562680,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"62946266","content_html":"REVIEW: Listen – On Music, Sound & Us (Michel Faber) ![\"Nostalgia](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Nostalgia-and-Surfaces-900x506.jpg\")
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\n\nI just think that people who write about technology should have a disclaimer about the tech stack they use
\n
Doug, I really like the idea of a /colophon page to my site. I think it would be nice to do something like a /now page, where it displays the latest Now post. This would then allow me to update it if/when it changes.
\nAnother thing to add to my itches.
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/i-just-think-that-people-who-write-about-technology-should-have-a-disclaimer-about-the-tech-stack-they-use/","date_published":"2025-04-18T23:31:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-18 23:31","date_timestamp":1745019099,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"59999893","content_html":"@thoughtshrapnel\n\nEvery single time I use generative AI, which admittedly is not very often because most of the time I feel that the cost outweighs the gain, it has some glaring mistake or forgot what I actually prompted or ignores all parameters. Honestly, when I try to use AI to do anything faster, it slows me down. Part of it is that I refuse to use all the Big Tech models and haven’t spent a lot of time trying to learn. Part of it, though, is that under the hood these things cannot actually think.
\nWe shouldn’t be underestimating what a thinking brain can make with a tool like AI, but we also shouldn’t be underestimating what indiscriminate use of AI does to the thinking brain. I, for one, am going to keep on actually reading the thing instead of the AI output of the thing. Even skimming the thing seems to give me more accurate insight than AI summarising the thing.
\n
Source: [FBT] on Acorns and Authorship by Laura Hilliger
\n \nI have sat with this for a few weeks Laura, thinking about my use of artificial intelligence. Personally, I often find it completing tasks that I know an LLM could do more efficiently. This is where I know a solution is possible, I just do not have the time and patience to work through it. For example, after having a conversation recently with a colleague about creating a form and presenting the information, I spent some time to create a script associated with a spreadsheet that helped streamline the process. Every time I do this, I find myself , but maybe I am just lazy?
\nI agree with you about thinking, skimming and summarising. I feel that what is overlooked is not just that an LLM cannot think, but the importance of the labour associated with reading. In particular, I have been left wondering about something Hannah Arendt said in The Human Condition about the tangibility of thinking:
\n\nIf labor leaves no permanent trace, thinking leaves nothing tangible at all. By itself, thinking never materializes into any objects. Whenever the intellectual worker wishes to manifest his thoughts, he must use his hands and acquire manual skills just like any other worker. In other words, thinking and working are two different activities which never quite coincide; the thinker who wants the world to know the “content” of his thoughts must first of all stop thinking and remember his thoughts. Remembrance in this, as in all other cases, prepares the intangible and the futile for their eventual materialization; it is the beginning of the work process, and like the craftsman’s consideration of the model which will guide his work, its most immaterial stage. The work itself then always requires some material upon which it will be performed and which through fabrication, the activity of homo faber, will be transformed into a worldly object. The specific work quality of intellectual work is no less due to the “work of our hands” than any other kind of work.
Source: The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
\nIf all we are doing is asking the LLM, I am not sure what work this even is?
\nOn a side note, I am not yet comfortable sharing content with an LLM as Doug recently shared:
\n\nI know that some people reading this will be shocked that I would discuss my health details with an LLM. But, I would say, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I run one of the world’s most secure operating systems on my mobile device, but I’m telling some AI about my medical issues? Yep. I contain multitudes.
Source: When in doubt, go see a doc! by Doug Belshaw
\nAlthough I respect that this maybe an improvement on Dr. Google, I am still circumspect.
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REVIEW: Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist (Liz Pelly) ![\"Looking](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Social-Media-Shopping-Mall-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig) ![\"Sometimes](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Zen-900x506.jpg\")
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Lifelong Learning ![\"Is](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Autodidacticism-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (Pierre Bayard) ![\"Our](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ghosts-of-Memory-900x506.jpg\")
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\n\nMy post on automating my /now page was very popular and I am proud of what I managed to do but I’ve been thinking for a while it’s very impersonal. It’s data. It’s not a page written by me in any meaningful way.
\nLeon had some similar thoughts on this with an idea for each blog post being a section of a page but rendered as one. The end goal for him, and me, is that the new additions get syndicated via RSS, POSSE, and so forth. I like the idea of redirecting /now to the latest post tagged as now so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
\n
Source: On Transient Slash Pages by Robb Knight
\n \nI have always been interested in the idea of a page, it is something that I miss about my newsletter. However, I felt that replacing the content loses the history. I really like the idea of writing a post and having /Now pick up the latest post.
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/on-transient-slash-pages/","date_published":"2025-01-28T12:13:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-28 12:13","date_timestamp":1738066433,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"54989750","content_html":"REVIEW: Rip it Up and Start Again (Simon Reynolds) ![\"The](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Postpunk-900x506.jpg\")
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📑 The Exploding Whale: collect.readwriterespond.com
","summary":"","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/the-exploding-whale/","date_published":"2025-01-14T05:05:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-14 05:05","date_timestamp":1736831147,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"54677708","content_html":"Silly Me, Blogging Again ![\"Some](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/On-Studies-900x506.jpg\")
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\n\nTo me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before. If you look at my work on Kotaku, there’s so many garbage ads on the screen you can barely see the words. Waypoint and Motherboard are both being run like a haunted ship, pumping out junk so that Vice’s new owners can put ads on it. I don’t have to worry about that anymore—I don’t have to worry about my work being taken down or modified or sold, or put in an AI training set against my will. I have my own website, and it is mine, and I get to own it completely. I hope someday soon I can visit your website.
\n
Source: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website – Aftermath by Gita Jackson
\nAlthough I agree with the sentiment about a , I cannot help feel that my site is like one of those country bakery’s that used to thrive when the highway ran through town until a bypass around town changed that?
\nᔥ in I hope someday soon I can visit your website | Thought Shrapnel (01/05/2025 04:00:38)
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/for-the-love-of-god-make-your-own-website-aftermath/","date_published":"2025-01-07T11:18:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-07 11:18","date_timestamp":1736248682,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"46980377","content_html":"REVIEW: Magic Pill (Johann Hari) ![\"\"](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Two-Tasks-900x506.jpg\")
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\nWhen I write, I’m not looking for hooks to current events — for me, that’s now a reason _not_ to write about something. I don’t promote my writing on social media, and I don’t ask anyone else to do so either. I’ve become the writerly version of the family in _The Quiet Place_, trying not to attract the attention of the uncomprehending and incomprehensible aliens.
Source: POS, not POSSE by Alan Jacobs
\n \nI appreciate your point about POSSE Alan. I remember the days when I would , in the hope that someone would read it, I guess. These days, I only POSSE when I feel it is applicable. For example, if I see something online, whether it be a blog (like yours) or a social media post, I will write on my site and syndicate if required. Most times it is not required, so I just leave it to chance. Although I sometimes fear living in the small hut that is my own website, just talking to myself as the local habitat walks on past wondering what I am doing. I think it has been important in realising why I write , first and fore mostly for me. If someone wants to follow, they can easily follow via RSS. It makes me wonder about the future of Eli Pariser’s ‘online parks’.
\nP.S. Austin Kleon told me you were here, blame him.
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/pos-not-posse/","date_published":"2024-10-04T10:31:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-04 10:31","date_timestamp":1728037907,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"46810220","content_html":"💬 POS not POSSE: collect.readwriterespond.com
","summary":"","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/pos-not-posse/","date_published":"2024-10-04T10:31:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-04 10:31","date_timestamp":1728037907,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"46528579","content_html":"REVIEW: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Jung and Aniela Jaffé) ![\"My](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Writing-as-Fateful-Compulsion-900x506.jpg\")
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REVIEW: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch ![\"Good](\"https://micro.blog/photos/50/https://readwriterespond.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Good-Art-900x506.jpg\")
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\n\nAI cannot develop software for you, but that’s not going to stop people from trying to make it happen anyway. And that is going to turn all of the easy software development problems into hard problems.
\n
Losing the Imitation Game/ by Jennifer Moore
\n—
\nJennifer Moore goes beyond the hype around so-called artificial intelligence to explain why LLMs are not the answer when it comes to developing software. The particular problem is that although they maybe able to provide snippets of code, they do not necessarily know, or understand, or comprehend anything about that data. They cannot do the heavy lifting associated with mental models. This can only be done by doing.
\n\n\nNon-trivial software changes over time. The requirements evolve, flaws need to be corrected, the world itself changes and violates assumptions we made in the past, or it just takes longer than one working session to finish. And all the while, that software is running in the real world. All of the design choices taken and not taken throughout development; all of the tradeoffs; all of the assumptions; all of the expected and unexpected situations the software encounters form a hugely complex system that includes both the software itself and the people building it. And that system is continuously changing.
\nThe fundamental task of software development is not writing out the syntax that will execute a program. The task is to build a mental model of that complex system, make sense of it, and manage it over time.
\nTo circle back to AI like ChatGPT, recall what it actually does and doesn’t do. It doesn’t know things. It doesn’t learn, or understand, or reason about things. What it does is probabilistically generate text in response to a prompt.
\n
Losing the Imitation Game by Jennifer Moore
\nFor me, this takes me back to a post from Richard Olsen, in which he explains why coding is so important in schools.
\n\n\nMoving beyond the usual explanations around workplace skills and the ability to build apps, Olsen suggests that coding is a core skill in the modern learning environment. Influenced by the seminal work of Seymour Papert, he asserts that it is coding and the digital workspace that allows students to learn real maths skills, to test hypothesis, to play with different situations. Going further, Olsen suggests that such a learning environment allows the following:
\n\n
\n- Feedback-Rich Learning
\n
\n- Reuse-Rich Learning
\n- Opinionated Learning
\n- Continuously Evolving Learning
\n
by Aaron Davis
\nOlsen’s post is one of those gifts of learning that comes up for me again and again, and is a reminder of the opportunities associated with connected learning.
\nThis all has me wondering about the and how that may miss the point.
\nᔥ in Language is probably less than you think it is | Thought Shrapnel (03/09/2024 06:38:53)
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/losing-the-imitation-game/","date_published":"2024-03-09T10:59:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-03-09 10:59","date_timestamp":1709981948,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"12084986","content_html":"@dave This seem so promising Frank and . I have followed Drummer with intrigue, read Amit Gawande’s breakdown, but wondered where it fits with my current practices. I was intrigued by the connection with Micro Blogs. However, it was not until your post sharing the ability to connect with WordPress that I started to properly think about how I might use Drummer. I can imagine using it for ‘micro’ posts, but as you touch on, I am still unsure how this fits into with things like Post Kinds etc.\nI guess I will have to start playing.
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/drummer-to-wordpress/","date_published":"2021-10-23T10:49:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-10-23 10:49","date_timestamp":1634986156,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"11882299","content_html":"@manton Ton, I think that this is something I have been in denial about for a while. I like what Post Kinds provides me, but I have often wondered about what would happen if I decided to walk away from the Post Kinds Plugin or WordPress. I like Manton’s idea of a special export. Definitely left me thinking and realising the limits to my skills.
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/working-around-post-kinds-plugin-lock-in/","date_published":"2021-08-31T07:33:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-08-31 07:33","date_timestamp":1630395230,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"11081731","content_html":"@adamprocter With the release of Epilogue, Daft Punk have announced that they are calling it quits:\n\nIt has been good reading various pieces of reflection and commentary about their legacy:
\n\n\n\nBeyond the singles, their visual identity, interstellar mystique, and party-music ethos inspired generations of artists across genres. LCD Soundsystem’s breakout song, “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” captured the duo’s paradoxical embodiment of hipster cool even as their singles dominated airwaves. They released several batches of incredible holiday merch. They were sampled by R&B greats Janet Jackson and Jazmine Sullivan, parodied in Family Guy and Powerpuff Girls, and celebrated in art galleries around the world.
\n Jazz Monroe https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/ \n
\n\n\nDaft Punk were nowhere and everywhere. Especially toward the end of their 28-year run, the Parisian dance music pioneers operated under a veil of secrecy, disappearing for long stretches between projects and hiding their faces behind robot masks whenever they did return to the spotlight. They’ve essentially spent the eight years since their hit-spawning, Grammy-winning 2013 swan song Random Access Memories steadily fading from view. Yet by the time they announced their breakup today, they had become such a presence within pop culture that their music was regularly manifesting on some of the grandest stages imaginable, be it Abel Tesfaye stalking the stadium to their computerized backing vocals at the Super Bowl halftime show or a fish-like Techno Troll spinning “One More Time” at an underwater rave in Trolls World Tour.
\n https://www.stereogum.com/2117015/daft-punk-changed-pop-music/columns/the-week-in-pop/ \n
\n\n\nOf course what I hadn’t appreciated was this was all warming up to Random Acces Memories (2013), I initially dismissed this record personally as all the air play of Get Lucky and it’s commercial success really put me off however once I finally sat down and listened to the record I realised the master piece it is.
\n Adam Procter https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2021/02/22/daft-punk-shut.html \n
\n\n\nThis is so far from the worst thing that has happened in the past year but I am unexpectedly emotional about this.
\n @kottke https://kottke.org/21/02/daft-punk-have-broken-up \n
\n\n\nMy favourite thing for today is people replying to tweets about Daft Punk and saying that what they do isn’t even that HARD if you just knew ANYTHING about music. Best coffee-break-tweet-scroll in a while.
\n https://twitter.com/chalkhands/status/1364060729536434179 \n
\n\n\n\nPerhaps French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had it right when he said that profits can be derived from “disinterestedness”. Indeed Daft Punk’s marketing succeeded because of its highlighted rejection of the most obvious, unromantic mechanisms of commerce.
\n Daniel Cookney, The Conversation https://scroll.in/article/987943/daft-punk-the-mystery-musicians-in-robot-disguise-split-up-after-28-years-of-taking-over-the-world \n
Many have discussed how Daft Punk has soundtracked their lives. I think that soundtrack is the right word. Although I have all their albums and know all the drops and clicks to annoy my children with when we play their music – thanks Trolls World Tour – however, much of their music has been on the periphery. It was not until Random Access Memories that I was truly captured by the music. Similar to my recent experience with Tame Impala, I think that this was as much about where I was at with my tastes. In particular, I was taken by the blend of sounds presented, with my highlight being Giorgio by Moroder
\n\nMy hope is that it might be the end of one chapter and the start of another. For example, Thomas Bangalter has ventured out beyond the duo in the past with Stardust. As Tom Breihan suggests:
\n\n\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/the-masks-the-music-the-magic-remembering-the-genius-of-daft-punk/","date_published":"2021-02-26T22:12:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-02-26 22:12","date_timestamp":1614377575,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10822561","content_html":"@ayjay , I enjoyed your thoughts about music and mastering. It reminded me of :\n\nDaft Punk hadn’t made any music in the eight years before they posted that video. This wasn’t a band breakup. It was the retirement of a shared persona. It was the end of the helmets.
\n https://www.stereogum.com/2115616/discovery-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ \n
\n\n\nOften when asked about predictions for the future, I wonder if there will come a time when we can quickly and easily remix music, leaving our own mark. To me, this would need some sort of audio track recognition. I wonder though whether at the same time that such technology becomes available, whether copyright will simply hold us back.
\n https://collect.readwriterespond.com/what-if-we-had-atr-that-allowed-you-to-quickly-scan-music-and-split-it-into-its-parts/ \n
Leaves me thinking that this would probably completely change the way music is recorded in the first place? For example, not sure how Jacob Collier’s hundreds of tracks would be translated into a cleaner UI?
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/umaster/","date_published":"2021-01-07T00:30:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-07 00:30","date_timestamp":1609979405,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10803275","content_html":"@ayjay It is interesting to think about this alongside other approaches, such as Actor-Network Theory and Assemblage Theory. Maybe they are all a part of a cosmopolitanism of theories? It also has me thinking about what whether the argument for interoperability is an example of the ‘Taoist culture of coders’? collect.readwriterespond.com/from-tech…
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mrkrndvs/10803275","date_published":"2021-01-02T20:30:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-01-02 20:30","date_timestamp":1609619438,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"10794931","content_html":"@colinwalker I too have turned to the physical in regards to instruments. I bought the Volca Modular. I think I am getting my head around it, partially because of the time spent tinkering with VCV Rack.
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\nI have been looking at getting a Volca Sampler 2 to compliment it and provide some rhythmic contrast. One of the issues I have is finding a power supply that would work for multiple Volcas. Just not sold on the cost of the Korg adaptor, especially when I would have to buy two. Wondering if you bought the official adaptor or if you are just running off batteries?
There has been so much written about online learning over the last few months. However, Caulfield always brings a certain sense of clarity.
","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/read-write-respond-055/?replytocom=33442","date_published":"2020-08-08T11:36:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-08-08 11:36","date_timestamp":1596886616,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"9450475","content_html":"@adamprocter Adam, this sounds like the Tune My Music service?
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/music-links/","date_published":"2020-04-18T12:36:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-04-18 12:36","date_timestamp":1587213398,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"9111031","content_html":"@manton Thank you Manton for the clarification.
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/micro-blog-free-6-month-hosting-for-teachers/?replytocom=27250","date_published":"2020-03-31T07:25:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-03-31 07:25","date_timestamp":1585639522,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"9088346","content_html":"@manton This is a great initiative Manton.
\nJust a quick question for the future, what would happen to accounts at the end of the 6-months? Or at the end of the month of free podcasting? Do those posts and podcasts get hidden in the backend? Just wondering.
@JohnPhilpin This is a really good point John.💬
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/coronavirus-and-the-gig-economy/","date_published":"2020-03-08T11:31:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-03-08 11:31","date_timestamp":1583667075,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"8094606","content_html":"@manton Manton, what if anything does this mean for self-hosted users?
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/replies-hosted-at-your-own-blog/","date_published":"2020-02-01T10:56:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-02-01 10:56","date_timestamp":1580554612,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"7767359","content_html":"@kimberlyhirsh Thank you Peter for the provocation. Definitely something to think about. I have been thinking about the public and private nature of my commonplace book lately. A part of me wonders about just publishing my monthly newsletter/summary publicly.
\nvia Kimberly Hirsh
So it does @c, thanks for letting me know. Guessing I must have accidentally added an errant contact form.
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/the-stories-we-were-told-about-education-technology-2019/?replytocom=24182","date_published":"2019-12-30T10:52:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-12-30 10:52","date_timestamp":1577703148,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"3869133","content_html":"@Avancee That is a good point. I must admit that my thumb sometimes gives the wrong impression. In part I was interested in this based on something Doug Belshaw mentioned in a recent podcast. I think that it is also a reminder of the way in which technology is a system with many actors.
\n","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com/the-end-of-app-stores-is-rapidly-approaching/?replytocom=15326","date_published":"2019-06-03T13:21:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-06-03 13:21","date_timestamp":1559568103,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"3208385","content_html":"@Miraz @JohnPhilpin @hutaffe it is all a little disconcerting, with this post from Cory Doctorow about distribution of wealth in England adding more fuel to the fire ...
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/mrkrndvs/3208385","date_published":"2019-04-19T10:19:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Davis","url":"https://collect.readwriterespond.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fd00e7ca24ca1b9c853da43af229c0e0e%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"mrkrndvs"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-04-19 10:19","date_timestamp":1555669195,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"2139299","content_html":"@Avancee just purchased Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human, might start there, but Zuboff's book definitely sounds interesting and important.
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