On Notes, there’s no one looking after your brain. There’s no one protecting you from clickbait and softcore thirst traps. There’s no one deciding what’s worth your time. In fact, the algorithm especially doesn’t care. It wants to steal your time.
Letter from a Region in My Mind, by James Baldwin | The New Yorker
Owing to the way I had been raised, the abrupt discomfort that all this aroused in me and the fact that I had no idea what my voice or my mind or my body was likely to do next caused me to consider myself one of the most depraved people on earth. Matters were not helped by the fact that these holy girls seemed rather to enjoy my terrified lapses, our grim, guilty, tormented experiments, which were at once as chill and joyless as the Russian steppes and hotter, by far, than all the fires of Hell.
Meta’s Waterworth: Should we be hyperventilating about hyperscalers’ hyper-infrastructure?
Existing international frameworks – such as those administered by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) or under the aegis of the United Nations – were never designed to regulate hyperscaler control over critical infrastructure.
The question we must ask ourselves is how much power we are willing to surrender to a few multi-billionaires, especially those tethered to an increasingly unpredictable US administration.
Obituary: Gene Hackman, Oscar-winning star of 'Superman' and 'Unforgiven,' dies at 95
"You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?'" Hackman reflected to GQ magazine in 2011, seven years after his retirement from acting. "But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor. I was lucky to find a few things that I could do well as an actor and that I could look at and say, 'Yeah, that's all right.'"
But we’ll first have to study biology as an intricate whole, and understand how our own designs fit into the context of lifeforms that have evolved, without us, over billions of years. Time will tell.
Martha Swales on Instagram: "This is FUN. Living in London with a little garden and knowing lots of people who want to grow but don’t have outdoor space I’m always thinking of ways that everyone can get growing something to eat. You don’t have to be self sufficient for growing food to be worth it. The fun in the project, the process, the learning and the harvest can be achieved in the smallest spaces. Microgreens are packed with nutrients, flavour, look great and grow so fast and you can grow them in practically anything, but there is something especially pleasing about these little tins lined up on the windowsill. Here I’ve grown - Broccoli Cress Pink kale Pak Choi Radish Sango I have been asked many times about what to do in the garden each month, when to start seeds, what’s good for each season - so I’m really excited to say I am launching a platform where people can grow along with me. I’ll be sharing what I’m sowing, growing, harvesting and eating as well as fun new projects an...
