- Thu 02 March 2023
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- Michiel Scholten
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Why You Should Stop Reading News
News is, by definition, something that doesn’t last. It exists for only a moment before it changes. As news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased, and the quantity has increased, making it nearly impossible to find the signal in the noise. So …
Shooting deer
Last Sunday it was the first day of Easter. So, I slept in, until my watch woke me at 4:45, because why not? (Well, lots of reasons...) Anyway, the idea was to photograph foxes during the early hours around sunrise. Yes, shooting is exclusively done through lenses here. I …
Tiktok's enshittification
Here is how platforms die: first, they 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. I call this enshittification, and it is a …
Hilary Hahn is such a gem
Last Friday my better half and me went to a concert. The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra was playing a contemporary piece (Con Brio, surprisingly nice with musicians using their instruments as percussion and such), the Violin Concerto by Dvořák and the First Symphony of Brahms. The very reason we went there …
