Spotify Wrapped, King Gizzard, and the year’s best songs Spotify Wrapped kinda sucked in 2024, missing a bunch of the cool info from previous years about genres and favorite albums and more. Did you notice? Spotify ended 2023 with massive layoffs, including Scott Macdonald, the person whose insights about data analysis and genres was apparently…
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…
These two photos look identical to me. What I see looks like the photo on the right. I have mild deuteranomaly – red-green colorblindness. Eight percent of men are red-green colorblind. (Almost no women. It’s a genetic thing.) It’s hard to describe, because my world has a full spectrum of colors – “colorblind” does not…
Veilpiercer received a starred review from IndieReader. I don’t know the reviewer but it’s obvious he is insightful and charming and probably handsome and much sought after. He says nice things like this: “With both dry absurdism and great humanity, Bruce Berls’s VEILPIERCER successfully turns 21st-century concerns about technology and society into a rollicking vision of…