One of the most interesting parts of the tetrad is the quadrant regarding obsolescence because this is where you can find luxury as well. An easy example of this is how books are now obsolete as popular entertainment which makes them into valid luxury items for Miu Miu’s book club. The other most delicious part of of the tetrad (in our opinion) is the quandrant describing what the media object reverses into when pushed to its limit – which is also the trickiest part.
Here is an excellent tetrad from our workshop participant Paris Parker-Loan.
An Egregore (also spelled egregor; from French égrégore, from Ancient Greek ἐγρήγορος, egrēgoros ‘wakeful’) is a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals.
I need to get around 10 pages of script and probably one rough outline out the door today. I also have 3000 unread stories in my RSS reader! Most of me is ready to curl up somewhere with a book.
Currently rebuilding the board for the newsletter, which returns on 11 January 2026.
So at 2pm I just put on Merrell black suede slip-ons, Carharrt utility pant, a submariner sweater, merino scarf and watchcap, leather gloves, slipped the wired mp3 player into the side pocket of the utility pant, and listened to two new music purchases while I walked into town, had a glass of wine and chatted with some people downstairs at the deli, wrote some notes on a new project, bought some cheese and walked home again.
“I wouldn’t look at this as a change in approach for Netflix movies or for Warner movies,” he said. “I think, over time, the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly, to be able to meet the audience where they are quicker … I’d say right now, you should count on everything that is planned on going to the theater through Warner Bros. will continue to go to the theaters through Warner Bros., and Netflix movies will take the same strides they have, which is, some of them do have a short run in the theater beforehand. But our primary goal is to bring first-run movies to our members, because that’s what they’re looking for.”
During its bid against Paramount and Comcast for Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix assured company executives it would uphold existing agreements requiring theatrical movie releases if the deal went through. No surprise, looks like he lied.
All told, the company has lost more than $70 billion since the beginning of 2021 on its enormous long-term VR bet, a staggering sum that has left investors itchy and unimpressed as Zuckerberg has failed to convince the public of the high-fidelity virtual spaces he long insisted we’d be choosing to spend most of our time in.
Now, as Bloomberg reports, the company’s executives are eying gigantic budget cuts, as high as 30 percent, for the teams responsible for its Meta Horizon Worlds product and Quest VR headset — another nail in the coffin for Zuckerberg’s obsession that has been a major thorn in the sides of investors for years now. Layoffs could start as soon as January, but final decisions have yet to be made.
In fact, following Bloomberg‘s reporting, Meta’s stock jumped over four percent on Thursday, underscoring the degree to which shareholders have grown fed up with the company trying to make the metaverse happen.
Feedbin just went down, but apparently it’s just me. Which might be just as well, because if I see one more clickbaity fake-outrage gibbering about Pantone’s choice for Pantone Colour Of The Year then I might just delete everything anyway.
What eggs fresh from the chicken’s bum generally look like.
His method of eating eggs was as unnatural as the thoughts that accompanied it. As soon as the poor feathered creatures began their broody clucking he would seize them one after another and suck the eggs out of their rumps.
Bandcamp Friday, which means that if you, like me, have bought 1500 records from Bandcamp over the years, you’re getting 1500 emails from Bandcamp today.
“some children “don’t seem to respond to their name”… You have to wonder how often that child hears a loving adult trying to get their attention. Too often, another practitioner said, “children are not spoken to at home, but offered screens all day””
In the back of my head, I’m counting down to the three gigs I’m intending to go to this month. I’m particularly looking forward to Konsztrukting Soundz, which has become a real exploratory portal for me.
But right now I am buying and downloading music and then shifting it all over to an SD card I use for new purchases, to shove it into this cranky cheap mp3 player. I think I’m getting a better mp3 player for Xmas. And then, with a bit of luck, I get to go for a walk. It is bright and cold out there today, and I would like some winter air.
Going to see if this thing does anything more useful today:
He jumped into bed for some attention when he heard my alarm go off. When I stopped making with the head strokes so I could get up, he reached over and smacked me around the face to let me know who the boss is.
OPERATIONS: right now? god knows STATUS: up a little late today, under 8hrs sleep, it’s dark, I just did a high-cacao protein shake to try and kickstart myself READING:CODEX 1962, Sjon (UK) (US+). LISTENING:
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TheCBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network.
Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.
Known for her attacks on liberal institutions and “cancel culture”, Weissfounded the Free Press with her partner Nellie Bowles in 2021 after she left the New York Times as a columnist, claiming that she was heavily scrutinized for her conservative views and criticism of the left at the paper.
“While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram has dropped 24% year-on-year. Even TikTok has begun to plateau. People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.”
YouTube, typically known as the go-to platform for video content, has risen to the top as the most popular service used for podcast listening in the U.S. … 31% of weekly podcast listeners age 13 and up choose YouTube as the service they use most to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify (27%) and Apple Podcasts (15%).
that to simply mirror reality is to lose the purpose of art. Art exists to mediate our experience. Art makes sense of our world; it doesn’t simply regurgitate it back to us. The “omnicrisis” will not be solved by the tactics of the omnicrisis.
