Oliver Schroer dies at 52 | carsten knoch: essays + ideas

Sad news this morning on CBC Radio 1: Toronto fiddler Oliver Schroer died from leukemia on July 3, 2008.

I had only recently discovered Oliver’s music and blogged about it at length. Sensitive obits from TheStar.com here and here.

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Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 4, 9:44 pm

"shortsighted leadership, disregard for expertise, racial inequities, social-media culture, and fealty to a dangerous strain of individualism" https://buff.ly/3folfX1

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 4, 1:17 pm

“The pure abstraction and infinite possibilities of online existence still suit and excite me, and returning to material things and the obligations of creaturely existence can feel like a comedown. But it’s a necessary one.” https://buff.ly/3iCN1Ss

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 3, 7:52 pm

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." - Karl Marx. https://buff.ly/3hWUACe

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 3, 1:31 pm

“Oliver may not openly attack the government, but he is, in some ways, quite trenchantly anticapitalist.” https://buff.ly/2DhowKB

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adam.the.creator@AdamPadilla·

Aug 2, 2:47 am

The perfect toy for 2020 doesn’t exi-

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 2, 2:18 pm

"As reporters learn more about a subject the truth tends to become less clear, not more so. Recognising and embracing the uncertainty means being humble — but not timid." https://buff.ly/3hcwtiz

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Aug 2, 12:53 pm

“There’s a well-documented history of the tendency to hype distracting, potentially problematic technology during disaster response, so it’s concerning, if not surprising, to see governments turning again to new technologies as a policy response to crisis” https://buff.ly/3j2spTH

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Jul 30, 12:15 pm

"Software engineering is in many ways oddly premodern. Many coders are at least partly self-taught. That leads to bad habits, which software-engineering courses fail to correct. There is no real agreement on what to teach or what habits to instil." https://buff.ly/3948sY2

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Jul 30, 11:30 am

“I am just a small part of an accidental grand experiment: Do knowledge workers really need the office?” https://buff.ly/32sIcW7

Carsten Knoch @carstenknoch·

Jul 28, 11:49 am

Everyone loves a good "decade-old rule," don't they? https://buff.ly/3f4A9Bp