Three episode documentary series on computers and society.
Adam Curtis has a quite distinctive style of story telling - to me the weaving of a sense of sublime via intensity and associativity offers quite a fascinating way to look into things.
It's also from 2011 - its interesting to reflect how our technological world and discourse has changed since then - from Dario Amodei's same name carrying essay to discourses around broligarchy, etc.
Stumbled on this, an absolutely fascinating exposition on crafting bean bags for juggling/footbagging. Well structured & written, hundreds of pages of pdf's.
On the meta, there's a bittersweet feeling - discovering these "early internet" (i.e. pre-enshittification/sloppification) gems is an increasingly rare experience.
Adam Curtis has a quite distinctive style of story telling - to me the weaving of a sense of sublime via intensity and associativity offers quite a fascinating way to look into things.
It's also from 2011 - its interesting to reflect how our technological world and discourse has changed since then - from Dario Amodei's same name carrying essay to discourses around broligarchy, etc.
Earlier on HN
- "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (-12, 28 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316765
- "Adam Curtis explains it all" (-21, 77 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947622
- "Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)" (-24, 177 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325542