Learning Sound Science

MikeNM

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January 29, 2023

We live in a world of produced sound. Some of it ambient: generated by cars, machines, and other passing noises of everyday life. We're also surrounded by sounds conveying information, whether it's music or dialog on the television. The science of generative sound is something that I can take for granted sometimes. Bartosz . . .

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Conspiracies Undersell The Evil

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January 26, 2023

In this video, William Gibson says that "All Conspiracy Theories need to be simple enough to explain over two pints of beer." It's a good interview from when his last novel came out. When you look at James O'Keefe trying to pitch yet another fake video. This time he's claiming that Pfizer is . . .

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America Can't Read

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January 25, 2023

I’ve always wondered why when I freelanced, editors would press trying to aim your prose at a sixth grade reading level. Apparently the answer is because a majority of Americans do not have an advanced reading level, with 20% counted as illiterate. This study seems pretty damning, but I think that it’s actually . . .

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The Egg Racket

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January 23, 2023

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The price of Eggs was already a story about an industry made vulnerable by unsafe practices, but as Cory Doctorow shares, it's not even the avian flu outbreak. Instead, it's an industry with a few competitors colluding cartel style to control price.

The economy is facing a confluence of unregulated market . . .

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January 21, 2023

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Apple's Never-Was Computer

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January 21, 2023

Jeremy Reimer at Ars Technica has a detailed history of the Apple Lisa. Renowned for its staggering price tag, and sending Steve Jobs to set up his pirate crew designing the Mac, most of the history of the Lisa is about what it wasn't. It's a weird Galápagos offshoot of what computers would become over the . . .

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Everyone Ruins The Economy

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December 27, 2022

Well boomers, it's your turn to be blamed for the economy. Apparently the latest think tanks have decided we must do is die at our desks to save the economy. Retirement is for commies.
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