Range
Interesting take on finding feeds through others instead of algorithms.
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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.
How to survive being online
Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...
The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.
Tim Cook Is Failing Us
This has the right level of nuance.
If that is too hard, or he’s worried the board would oust him, then I wonder what the point of his wealth and power is if he will only use it for more wealth and power?
The Worst Page on the Internet
Neal Agarwal distills digital life to its essence.
“I’m very much a believer that the web is a creative medium,” Agarwal told me. “We have amazing movies that get you to reflect on life, and I don’t see why a website can’t also be like that. But right now it feels like the web is very underutilized in that way.”
Technology is never a substitute for consent
Very good distinction on what constitutes privacy and consent for data sharing.
The right to privacy can also mean the right to private ownership.
According to this alternative interpretation of privacy, the data on my computers is mine, to do with as I please, not as anyone else pleases. My computers, and the data on my computers, should not leave my possession, the "privacy" of my own home, without my consent. If others want access to my data, I may grant permission, but only if they ask and I agree.
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
The incentives are all screwy
We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
The Halliburton model from the Middle East is kind of in effect for all the infrastructure that comes into fire camps
California burn bosses typically suffer no consequences for deciding not to light