Panda's files

  From Steve Wozniak's amazing creation to a perfect brain rot machine. Preface: this entry doesn't try to suggest there's a "better" or "worse", it aims to illustrate corrosive marketing tactics that eroded our basic daily technology and cult-like, lifestyle defining following for what is in fact a device manufacturer. I'm a big proponent of using all technology that is accessible for you and fulfills it's purpose. All devices and software are only a means to an end - a tool. Never forget that you, the user of this tool, are the most important part. Before "think different" Apple we know today, there were faceless computer corporations like IBM or Compaq with their gray, ubiquitous boxes with no characteristics. Everything was mainly focused on utilitarian aspect as computers and personal devices were mainly business oriented tools and not a lifestyle accessory. IT industry best known early "genius" is certainly Steve Jobs....

What is pop-science? I don't think I need to introduce conspiracy theories in various forms, but let's define a pop-science type medium. It can be a video, a documentary, a book, an article or even a post or short from a "pop-scientist", so the form isn't important, but what is is how it's delivered. It bring you easy to understand truths, fact relations and very often a story that goes around it with vague sources that are narrated to make it appealing and easy to consume. This deeply differentiates it from a study you may find in scientific journal that requires often blind testing, sources and proving applying the scientific method . Method that, because of it's limitations cannot provide reliably all the answers. Pop-science servers as dilution of scientific findings, delivered in a easy to understand way - like a content creator explaining relationship of melanin on skin color - never providing sources, how it was confirmed or what were the other co...

  Considering recent elections in US I decided to write a piece about this, as in Poland we also lived through a rise of post-truth politics and hopefully we will see soon it's final collapse. This is based on my own observations and experiences and hopefully you'll find a glimmer of hope in this writing, because it most probably get worse before it will get better. I will relate this mostly to Polish situation as I don't want to force narration on US state of things. Also as many EU countries face the same dangers these days more people will be able to relate and compare. I'm simplifying stuff here for brevity sake, and keep in mind that there are no "good guys" in politics. There are bad guys that make some policies work barely, just so they get re-elected and there are horrible people that will lie to you about why they couldn't do what they promised and how they will make future even better. How did we get there? There were actually two major events th...