Spotify the ubiquitous Swedish music App puts the Silicon Valley ethos to shame. It just friggin’ works on EVERYTHING. From smart TVs, to Alexa, to, yes, Linux Mint, to more basic stuff like through a web browser, through full applications on Windows and Mac, and in mobile apps
While struggling to get the now deprecated Windows 7 off of my home computers I came to further realizations about operating systems. It is not so much a matter of economics as of engineering that closed proprietary software for certain technical aspects of our lives is dangerous. For
Old religions and the priestly hierarchies who largely administer them still propagate the notion that religion is somehow otherworldly. A new crop of theorists and art, though, begins to get at the miraculous of the now, none the least of which is Lee Smolin from Canada’s Perim