I'm was looking for a new show to binge the other day when I saw a tweet from an old Silicon Valley friend Mike Arrington, who now is a crypto VC in Miami, recommending an AppleTV show, Swagger. That was good enough for me to give it a try, that and it got excellent ratings via Metacritic. I'm now most of the way through the first season, it's really good, kind of a cross between Friday Night Lights and The Wire, with a bit of Atlanta. Takes place in Baltimore, the story centers on a 14-year-old star-to-be and his life in the same city as The Wire, during the early days of Covid, based on the life story of NBA star Kevin Durant. An urban version of Friday Night Lights, which I had been working my way through, loving the first two seasons but the show got pretty bad by the third imho. Season 1 of Swagger is very good. I'm on episode 7. Season 2 starts tomorrow. #Marc Davis: "The more I use ChatGPT, the more I feel it calls into question our models of human language production. How much of how humans use language is based on pattern matching and prediction, and does not rely on what we would consider to be awareness or understanding?"#
- Baseball fields looked more intensely green in the 60s in contrast to the black and white TV screens we watched most games on. #
- I remember how amazing it all looked in full color when I got out of the tunnel at Shea into the full magnificence of the field. I suppose that was a virtual reality experience then, and to this day our computer screens are no competition for the real world. #
