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BURNING CHROME | Hi-res audio and the tyranny of numbers. Higher numbers
What finally broke the spell wasn’t a revelation-grade listening session. It was something more deflating: the realization that I was enjoying music less while supposedly hearing it “better.”
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BURNING CHROME | Linux: The operating system that refused to behave
Linux runs servers. Linux runs clouds. Linux runs routers, switches, firewalls, and satellites. Linux runs supercomputers. Linux runs the majority of the internet.
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BURNING CHROME | AI didn’t kill the job. Governance did
There is a comforting lie embedded in every corporate slide deck about artificial intelligence: that job disruption is a future problem, and that reskilling will naturally catch up once the dust settles. The World Economic Forum’s latest futures-of-work modeling quietly dismantles that myth. The future has already arrived. It is just unevenly governed. What the…
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BURNING CHROME | Mac vs. PC: The war that shaped computing — and why it no longer matters
The problem is that we keep asking whether the war is “still a thing,” when the more accurate question is whether the battlefield still exists.
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BURNING CHROME | Analog vs. digital audio: The war that refuses to die
When people say analog sounds better, they are often saying it feels better—to make, to own, to listen to. When people defend digital, they are defending access, reproducibility, and the refusal to romanticize limitation.
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BURNING CHROME | Music deconstruction through technology
At the S.A.B.A.W. event, an attentively curious crowd gathered to listen to what Tengal and his collection of music deconstructionists had to offer that rainy Saturday night.
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BURNING CHROME | Multimedia: Evolution and transformation
Despite the Philippines still being identified as a third-world country, technology—particularly in the capital, Manila—is almost on par with its more affluent Asian neighbors.
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BURNING CHROME | Progressives, conservatives, and the politics of violence
To understand why the left succumbed to violent struggle and why the right, with its obsession for order, veered into authoritarianism, we must peel back centuries of history.
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BURNING CHROME | As it was, when it was: The new album on Pinoy underground ’80s and the great rock ’n’ roll swindle
…or in other words: the liner notes that never made it to the album
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BURNING CHROME | 2026: Clearing the noise, building the signal
The question is not whether technology will move faster. It always does. The real question is whether societies, institutions and people will finally move together.