The Slow Hunch: Archive

June 2013

24 posts

More Omar Hakim

Can’t get enough - check out this bit from the end of Giorgio by Moroder on the new Daft Punk Album:

From this interview w/ Daft punk, regarding this section of this track:

Thomas Bangalter on drummer Omar Hakim’s playing on the second half of Daft Punk’s “Giorgio by Moroder” on Random Access Memories: “I remember going to him and humming this really complicated drum and bass programming and he’s like, ‘Like this?’ [makes drum noises] He’s doing it exactly like I hummed but like 10 times beyond. It felt like, ‘Whoa! What have we been missing being limited by our own programming skills?’ He probably only did two takes for that part.”

amazing.

also, this.

Jun 19, 20131 note

#omar hakim #daft punk #medium

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Jun 18, 20134 notes

“if you want to understand the future, this is what you should be reading” —

I’ve never been big into science fiction, but I’m sold.

The Last Firewall - The Best Near Term Science Fiction - Feld Thoughts

Jun 18, 20132 notes

“Bangkok has 150 hospital-operated ambulances for its population of 12 million, less than half of what most cities in more developed countries have. But thankfully, there are more than 4,000 volunteer ambulances: Modified vans and pick-up trucks outfitted with stretchers, providing this megacity with an enormous, informal first-responder system.” —

wow

The White-Knuckle Nights of Bangkok’s Volunteer Ambulance Squads – The Informal City Dialogues

Jun 17, 20131 note

Jun 17, 2013

#medium #zeega

“The aim was to depart from their usual way of operating and recapture what they call the “golden age” of recording in the late 1970s. They abandoned playing the parts themselves and relying heavily on drum machines, computerized loops and samples of disco and rock records. Instead they recruited master studio musicians with the technique to play a syncopated groove in near-perfect time for five or 10 minutes.” —Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ May Rule the Summer - NYTimes.com

Jun 14, 2013

“If the federal government had access to every email you’ve ever written and every phone call you’ve ever made, it’s almost certain that they could find something you’ve done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.” —Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

Jun 14, 201322 notes

“So go get yourself genotyped. Download your data. And donate it to science. Let’s stop fighting companies that privatize, and start competing with them.” —del-fi: SCOTUS Plays Solomon on Gene Patents

Jun 13, 20136 notes

#patents #open science #genetics

Jun 13, 20131 note

#medium #zeega

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Jun 13, 20135 notes

#medium #airbnb #sharing economy #cities #molly turner

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“If you are working from your inbox, you are workin on other people’s priorities” —

an oldie but a goodie.

Donald Rumsfeld (via fred-wilson)

Jun 11, 2013240 notes

Jun 11, 201326 notes

Jun 10, 2013

U.S. Operating Massive Online Spying Program | The Onion - America's Finest News Source → theonion.com

“As long as they’re using the information to learn about my tastes and then cater specific NSA products my way, I’m fine with it”

Jun 10, 20132 notes

Yesterday I gave a talk at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum. For those who don’t know it, PDF is a great event, and is now in its 10th year of bringing together the community of folks working at the intersection of tech, politics, and civics. You can see all the talks from yesterday (and today’s videos will be posted tomorrow) on PDF’s youtube channel.

I was paired up with Robin Chase (co-founder of Zipcar and Buzzcar) to talk about the opportunity and challenges presented by the “peer economy”. Robin introduced the opportunity and I followed up with the challenges (and some ideas for addressing them).

This is a topic I’ve been spending a lot of time on — with the team at USV, companies in the USV portfolio, and many other companies in the peer-to-peer sector.

As is apparent to everyone following tech news, there has been a ton of activity, both positive and negative, in this space. It’s new, and it challenges many fundamental notions of professionalism, person-to-person relationships, and regulation. We’ve got a lot to figure out.

Here is the video of my talk:

And here are the slides.

Kudos: many thanks to the folks at the Berkman Center who helped me find examples of our historical responses to new user-empowering technologies, to Arun Sundararajan for his consistently insightful work on these issues, and to the folks from Sidecar, RelayRides, Etsy and Airbnb for giving their input to the talk.

Enjoy!

Jun 7, 20136 notes

#hmm #large #peer economy #pdf13