This will be something different. I've had my Windows-Gaming-VM-in-Linux-Desktop running for many months now, and will be looking into some improvements now that I know what the biggest quality-of-life issues are with the setup.1: Screen layout. I predicted this, and while it's not as annoying as I expected I still want to see if anything… Continue reading Bugman Chronicles #2: “Buglit”
Flashing Lights and Shadow Selves
Works of secular media once reflected the values they came out of - perhaps critically, perhaps blindly, but almost always in that one causal direction. As mass communication became easier, and hard-edged tribal feeling waned, the process became more iterative. Art and literature took cues from society, which in turn would be shaped by those… Continue reading Flashing Lights and Shadow Selves
Not-roundup 6: Equal Writes
Several years ago I put together a short article concerning Ghostbusters as a franchise, in anticipation of its then-pending 2016 deboot. I was cautiously optimistic, because the themes I appreciated throughout Ghostbusters until that point related to its high-concept identity as something like 'high-tech urban theological fantasy'. I was confident that these elements would persist,… Continue reading Not-roundup 6: Equal Writes
Not-roundup 5: Duckspeak
It's been a while since we heard it lamented how the public is losing faith in 'experts'. One reason why this might be happening, if indeed it is happening, is that 'expertise' is increasingly being claimed in fields less subject to the absolutism and replicability we've otherwise come to expect when hearing the term in… Continue reading Not-roundup 5: Duckspeak
Bugman Chronicles #1: Software
or, another page of the ongoing collaborative tome of arcane digital lore around VFIO, on x570 with an RTX card, covering such classic elements as Code 43, terrible performance, non-deterministic configurations, why dodgy IOMMU groups are no-one's fault but make me salty anyway, and more... I've spent excessive time recently on getting GPU passthrough to… Continue reading Bugman Chronicles #1: Software
Roundup 4: Men, Heroes, Balance
As the news cycle continues to degenerate, increasing in speed and fury while always losing direction and definition, a particular trend becomes even more obvious. A given event - let us say a shooting - inherits its cultural meaning only from pre-existing obsessions, with the circumstantial detail being almost entirely irrelevant. A talking head is… Continue reading Roundup 4: Men, Heroes, Balance
Not-roundup 3: Mens Sana
Last month, we in the UK were encouraged during Mental Health Awareness Week to consider the concept of ‘Body Image’. This was done as a specific part of its general remit to raise public awareness of mental health issues, and to encourage compassionate and constructive attitudes towards those affected by mental health issues. As ever,… Continue reading Not-roundup 3: Mens Sana
Roundup 2: Groups, resolution, guilt by association, and trust-but-verify expertise.
A running theme throughout topical issues in modern culture, whether they emerge organically from our own shared experiences or in a more curated manner from media entities, is that of group responsibility - or perhaps ‘culpability’ - and whether it should be deemed to apply in different contexts. Groups are often defined as much by… Continue reading Roundup 2: Groups, resolution, guilt by association, and trust-but-verify expertise.
Roundup 1: Fantasy, the will, nudging and grumbling, and virtualised ideologies.
Whenever the Real meets the Unreal and is transformed by it, we might accordingly examine our prior relationships with that same Unreal. Several days ago the developed world was convulsed by the thoughts and actions of one who understood just how tenuous our perceptions of truth can be, and whose every subsequent action continues to… Continue reading Roundup 1: Fantasy, the will, nudging and grumbling, and virtualised ideologies.
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