Month: February 2017
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Have we reached peak streetwear?
At the end of January I wrote a blog post about the landmark luxe streetwear collection by Louis Vuitton and Supreme. I delved into the history of streetwear and the deep connection it shared with luxury brands. This linkage came from counterfeit products, brand and design language appropriation. This all came from a place of…
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My Friend Cayla + more news
My Friend Cayla My Friend Cayla doll banned in Germany over surveillance concerns – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – So are most other connected systems such as Google Now, Siri and Alexa powered devices. My Friend Cayla has little to no security allowing it to be relatively easily hacked. Business Uber’s work environment sounds even worse…
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Eatmybeat + more things
Eatmybeat This week I was listening to: [Free Download] London Collective, eatmybeat, Drop a Tasty 21 Track Compilation ‘Bonus Snacks Vol. 2’ Perfect for DJs | Magnetic Eatmybeat have put together a create collection in Bonus Snacks Vol. 2. The Eatmybeat compilation is an interesting mix of ambient soundscapes, old school electro and various strands of house…
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Snoopers charter + more news
Snoopers Charter UK Snoopers Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors • The Register – the original snoopers charter aka the Interception Modernisation Programme was proposed by the last Labour administration and was opposed vociferously by the Conservatives and the other opposition parties. Now you have the Conservatives who pushed through the near…
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Blood and Faith – the purging of muslim Spain (1492 – 1614) by Matthew Carr
I picked up Blood and Faith on a trip to Madrid. I have a habit of picking up English language history books if I can when visiting a place. It gives you a sense of how a country wants itself to be seen. These usually vary from clumsy propaganda to insightful works. Coming across Carr’s…
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POSIX + more news
POSIX compliant POSIX has become outdated by Atlidakis, Andrus, Geambasu, Mitropoulos & Nieh (Columbia University) – this seems arcane but will impact every part of information technology from mainframes and web infrastructure to Macs and smartphones (both iPhone and Android). POSIX is an IEEE approved standard. It was developed to maintain the comparability between different…
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Unreasonable behaviour
Much of my social channels are filled with outrage and discussion about what is perceived as unreasonable behaviour. Causes of unreasonable behaviour On one hand we had filter bubbles that allowed audiences to stay isolated, apparently only seeing the content which broadly fitted their world view. For the metropolitan elite, its a steady diet of…
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The end of employees + more
The end of employees The End of Employees – WSJ – temp agencies, zero-hour contracts, outsourcing, asset-light businesses, focusing on core competences etc etc all driven by revenue per employee metrics. The end of employees is about financial engineering, it is an example of late stage capitalism. You can thank McKinsey & Company for the…
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Pro Brexit town + more news
Pro Brexit town Welcome to the most pro Brexit town in Britain | FT – One thickset Lithuanian man asked why English people did not seem to like foreign workers. “They complain about us,” he said. “But why they not do the work?” – A lot of small towns dominated by food production, warehousing or agriculture became a…