Monday, January 27

Radio Days



Today has been a bust, one of those wading-through-treacle days where nothing turns out well -  background mood supplied by torrential rain.


I have taken refuge in the radio.

There was someone talking about Google self-driving cars and the thorny issue of ethical driving decisions: whether to swerve to avoid an animal, which animals are more swerveworthy than others  and what to do when faced with the choice of crashing into a bus or ploughing down pedestrians. 

There is apparently a surreal European initiative called the Sartre project, in which a convoy of self-drive cars follow a man driving a lorry.

If you're not in the UK, the piece is  written down here,  the radio show is here.


THINGS WE DON’T UNDERSTAND AND DEFINITELY ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT

title of a performance by Miranda July


Also on the radio: news that Brokeback Mountain has become an opera, illustrated with a section where the men sing to each other in that operaticky mad-talking-in-funny-voices way.  The next time I need to say a difficult thing to someone I will definitely do it in the operatic style.


image from Algae Opera

11 comments:

  1. I can get quite operatic when roused to fury....it can be a noisy house....

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    1. I've just been doing the arias not those other bits

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  2. Self-driving cars ... how could anything possibly go wrong?

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    1. I imagine a little town with self-living houses and the cars that leave every morning for work, no people to litter or make a noise - perfect!

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  3. Like Helen, I can sing out my.frustrations.Of course, I also sing along with proper singers, often in parody...I spend a lot of time alone.

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  4. Self driving cars, yikes!

    I love that photo, by the way.

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    1. Since I found it, I'm rather keen to see an Algae Opera performance

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  5. My dog used to sing opera when I played my sax.... I'm not surprised I spend a lot of time alone.
    Bad sax and howling... the name of my new musical.
    Sx

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