When Insurance Rejects Life Saving Care
Horrifying.
Read
The Moral Economy of the Shire
Fascinating analysis of the Bagginses as landed gentry and the network of patronage they sit on top of.
%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25775124%2F247424_Stop_Using_Chat_GPT_as_a_Search_Engine_CVirginia.jpg?width=92&height=&ar=&mode=&format=avif&dpr=2)
Stop using generative AI as a search engine
It's not the right use case
%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F25772961%2FVERGE_IMG_2537_2_2.jpeg?width=92&height=&ar=&mode=&format=avif&dpr=2)
Six hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building.
The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
Oof.
Romantasy All Along! - Uncanny Magazine
Extremely quotable lines in this article!
Either the romance will be hot and the world-building disappointing, or the elvish quest business will be top-notch and the smooching will be tepid.
Gaslamp means there are parasols at play.
It would take an entire library of PhD theses to properly explore the layers of sexism that female fantasy readers and writers have experienced over the last fifty plus years
We have swords on our t-shirts, and we’re not afraid of protagonists who know how to kiss.
Why did Silicon Valley turn right?
The "pounded progressive ally" thesis has limits
The Website Manifesto
This is a good point about crafting the site as well.
When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
An interesting architectural workaround.
Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
Modern Work Fucking Sucks.
Feel this one, although at least mostly our in house stuff is well integrated... I wish people would stop using Quip for everything because it's "faster"
modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics
I self host and it's kind of maddening
My dentist gets on me about flossing and I want to be like, motherfucker when? I know it’s only a couple of minutes a day but do you know how few minutes we all have?? Did you know the earth is going up in flames??? And you want me to FLOSS???? And host my own read-later service????? Why is this the reality we live in?????? Butlerian jihad when???????
I have wanted to figure out my will for approximately eight years, and I know that because that is how long ago I got married and we were like “ha ha we should do that soon” and then simply never did. Because life is so complicated, my guy.
Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo
The modern world is unbelievably stupid, and if you don’t pay attention to the stupidity when something bad happens someone shows up in your notifications all like, well what did you expect.
Debiasing the BoardGameGeek ranking
Pretty interesting but unsurprising biases in gamers who rate things on BGG.
The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm excited to read this even though it's not going to be a happy book. This touches on how biased our reporting is on the war and those who oppose it.
It's Okay to Hurt - The Phoenix
Dear friends, I know that many of you are hurting today. It’s okay to hurt. I know that many of you are scared today. It’s okay to be scared. I know that
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
Something I knew intuitively but never thought about much in detail.
It's Good for Apple, and Okay for You
Apple Intelligence, so far.
A Quick Snapshot of the Microblogging Landscape
So given the post-election swell of BlueSky and Threads…and a far more modest but existent swell of new users to the Fediverse, it feels like the battle to be a non-X/Twitter microblogging solution is coming into view. Threads and BlueSky, each seeing a recent momentum of over 1 milliion users per day are the clear top two.
Notable that both Theads and Bluesky are built with the open social web, and decentralized open tech features are either inherently part of both, or soon will be.
Clack to the future: Typewriters are pounding out new roles in communities
A bit too much screens bad but I like the intentionality they mention.
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
I think this makes sense from what I understand about LLMs.
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Huh. Why the one model?
Bluesky, AI, and the battle for consent on the open web
I think one of the challenges is I'm probably fine with AI training for general knowledge or search, but not for generative use cases where my content could potentially be reproduced... but those aren't separable.
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
Deep dive into ATProto and ActivityPub and stuff about distributed identity I didn't even know.
Something about President-Elect Nyarlathotep’s Unholy Rebirth Feels Weird, Right?
I guess I’m what you’d call a swing voter, Jerry. I am not one to align myself with any political party. I listen to each candidate’s positions on ...
It's About Power
He lies that he can fix it, Dems tell the truth that they can't, and everything gets worse
Donald Trump made people feel powerful when they were scared. The Democrats just made people feel more scared.
The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
Let The Bad Times End (1): Apartheid
Histories To Think On
Swarthmore and its Quintessential Tropes - The Phoenix
Hmm. Closest to LMHU The Wallflower? M is the only strong result though. Kinda like J for MBTI.
Small scale is the best scale – Manu
Two related headlines caught my attention the other day: “Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark” and “Threads grew by a Bluesky this month”. This …
How ‘The Wild Robot’ Was Born in a Weedy Patch of Manhattan
We loved The Wild Robot