Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
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What does Maga-land look like? Let me show you America's unbeautiful suburban sprawl | Alexander Hurst
I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst
Somewhere along the line, the American Dream became to live alone, surrounded by all of this, rather than living in connection with other people.
I’ll Be Seeing You — voices
Oppy 😭
Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space - phiresky's blog
Very cool. I didn't know this about the structure of ISBNs
Gauging the Pygmalion Effect
I think she's more positive in general but also notes how much better humans are at this sort of thing.
Range
Interesting take on finding feeds through others instead of algorithms.
How to find your pencil sharpener.
As you know, you are not an ant.
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
Those are not inspiring results. Wrong tool for the job!
'More than brick and mortar:' DC begins removing 'Black Lives Matter' plaza near the White House
Gross
Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind.
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
How Digital Marketing Broke Society
25.9% of teenagers who spend four or more hours daily on screens experienced depression symptoms in the past two weeks. 27.1% reported anxiety symptoms.
Higher durations of Internet use increases depression levels. Adolescents who spend more than three hours online daily are more likely to fall into the
Digital marketing is a fundamental threat to human flourishing, cognitive autonomy, and democratic governance.
Digital marketing is capitalism at its most predatory—a system where deliberately amplifying society's worst impulses becomes a rational business strategy.
The economic model and the foundational worldview of digital marketing operate on the premise that human consciousness exists primarily as a resource to be mined, refined, and sold.
Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Yikes.
Starfleet Eliminating All Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
Really missed having an IDIC joke.
How a snack protects Taiwan\'s tech - Taipei Times
It doesn't seem like it's anything more than just belief but we have so many little rituals around getting machines we don't understand to work.
Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades
Welp.
What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
It was nice having 504 protections.
mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)
I like a lot of the framing of this but need to think about it more
How to buy shoes in the fediverse
It's hard to get settled into the fediverse for a set of distinct but interlocking reasons, starting with "How do I pick a server?"
Enter Tapestry • The Breakroom
Excited to see where this fits in
The Incident
Intriguing environmental storytelling.
Estimating Cumulative Software Cost
Feels about right even coming with Amazon's deep pockets.
The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
She's a billionaire by luck/timing/privilege and skill both, I suppose.
But with Swift there was the internet, which, as it has done to most things, scaled this kind of community engagement up to extreme new levels.
Swift recognized a “blue ocean”—what the strategy gurus W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne call a completely untapped market
what researchers call her doxa—the unwritten norms and behaviors that draw fans to an artist
She has, rather brilliantly, convinced the public that her past and present coexist right now…
Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel)
I know it's a No True Scotsman feeling but this is so some other thing
DOGE Is Hacking America
We lost the technical backbone of the country
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
Cool!
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage
It's no wonder I didn't think he'd win, I live in an alternate universe.
The Hollywood veteran writers group proving 'creativity is ageless' - Los Angeles Times
How a weekly memoir writing group at the Motion Picture Television Fund became a creative outlet and surrogate family for its aging members.
MTG lead designer says "Trans people, people of color, and women playing a larger role, are all part of modern fantasy because they’re all part of the actual world"
Mark Rosewater replies to problematic questions around Magic: The Gathering on his Tumblr blog
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
Getting the worst nerds in the world to do a job they don't understand with a goal that makes no sense when you have a sovereign currency except that it enriches billionaires.