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What level of control do we have over our own content?

• Personal Website: Full control over content
• Git Repositories: High control over content
• Social Media Profiles: Moderate control over content
• Content Platforms: Moderate control over content
• Professional and Networking Sites: Limited control over content

The chaos of singularity

As a somewhat uncommon take on what the term singularity means I define it as

• a state where so many things are happening at the same time - or so many things require attention of an individual - that it is no longer possible for that person to keep track of everything and thus crucial information, facts are lost and actions are not taken.

I believe we are reaching that stage these days. It’s not imminent and this is due to one fact: we humans have a coping mechanism where we filter out anything that’s not required to survive.

This can be the main reason why the “exponential growth fallacy” holds true.

I have a question for Elon Musk.

Explaining the context does not fit into a tweet. So I created this. It’s an honest question, I’m curious. If you can help getting this question to him, I’d appreciate your help!

The question is about space travel, specifically the concept of a “generation ship.” The thought experiment is as follows: imagine we want to reach a distant, habitable planet. It’s so far away—and we can only travel much slower than the speed of light—that it takes longer than the average human lifespan to get there. This means that on the ship, there will be people who were born on Earth but will die on the ship, never seeing the destination planet. There will also be people who are born on the ship and will reach the new planet.

However, there will be people who are born on the ship, who have never experienced living on Earth and will never experience living on the new planet.

The question is: would you want to be one of those people?

Go to the Timeline menu and enable Layered Audio Editing. Then go to View menu and select “Show Audio Track Layers”.

Copy one bit of room tone you have and paste it to the first “umm” you want to cover, same track as your original audio, but on a new layer above the original. It will supersede whatever is underneath it when you play back. You can also quickly add crossfades at clip edges this way.

Easiest would probably be to copy a short average length clip and paste it across your take wherever there is something to hide, then go from piece to piece and adjust the length and placement to make it all seamless.

This way won’t (shouldn’t) take very long. Once you’re done you can turn off Show Audio Track Layers for a cleaner timeline look.