Does this bring anything new to the table? I don’t think so. But it’s very well done. It has some fantastic guitar work, blast beats, and great vocals. Winner!
🎧 Esoteric Malacology – Slugdge
412: Love Batteries
Follow-up:
Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
Settings → Accessibility → Audio/Visual → Headphone Accommodations → Audiogram
Example app from
Maciej
Big Sur Update
Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
How to do a SMC reset
Apple T2
Brid...
🎧 Sagor – Skraeckoedlan
Enjoying some good Swedish riff-rock. Can’t stop listening to that “El Monstro”-riff.
‘Bridesmaids’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Mina Kimes
Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Mina Kimes really want you to leave but don’t know how to say it without sounding like a dick. We revisit the 2011 hit comedy ‘Bridesmaids,’ starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, and Melissa McCarthy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
Dan Kokotov is VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, an automatic speech recognition company. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Oh FFS! Instagram now requires you to have an account to view anything on their website. You can no longer visit profiles of people or businesses let alone permalink pages.
I hope Instagram will revert this. Or everybody will just stop posting exclusively on that stupid platform (yeah, right!)!
Frustrating nonsense!
🎬 A Rainy Day in New York
Nicole “warned” me that critics didn’t like this movie much.
I disagree. I found this to be a clever, funny and overall very entertaining story.
#150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
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411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?
Follow-up:
Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnose
Settings → Privacy → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data
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HDR photos
Settings → Photos → View Full HDR
Screen brightness
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🎧 I – Conjurer
Currently listening to this EP quite a bit. Some great tremolo-picking melodies. And a great vocalist duo. Much heavy! Much good!
‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan
‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan take a seat in Mr Holland’s music-appreciation class to rewatch the 1995 drama “Mr. Holland's Opus,’ starring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, and Jean Louisa Kelly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
📄 Donations 2020
Here are the charities I donated money to at the end of this year:
#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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🎬 Suspiria
Another classic. For good reason.
Amazing set. Great atmosphere. Well done – and indeed gory – murder scenes. The end scene was great. Very much enjoyed the soundtrack. On the other hand, acting and dialogs were lacking. But that’s alright. I would recommend this, if one is into horror movies and hasn’t seen this, yet.
🎧 Solace – Jakob
Instrumental post rock from New Zealand. Very atmospheric. Great to work to (as a lot of instrumental albums). My current favourite from that album is “Everything All of the Time” – that drum beat is exactly my kind of groove.
🎬 On The Rocks
Good dialogs and good acting. But unsurprising and very conventional. Was ok.
#148 – Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education
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🎬 Better Watch Out
Had its moments and good ideas. But ultimately I found this unconvincing and excessively cruel.
🎬 Subito – Instant Photography
About the history of Polaroid. A lot of great info and anecdotes about instant photography. Nice animations included. An hour and fifteen minutes very well spent!
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
A Terrible Covid Christmas Special
This year was the worst. And as our staff tried to figure out what to do for our last episode of 2020, co-host Latif Nasser thought, what if we stare straight into the darkness … and make a damn Christmas special about it.
Latif begins with a story about Santa, and a back-ro...