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Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for critical thinking, despite promises of instant information access.

Let's say that you've visited a website and want to share it with your friends. At the bottom of the article is a list of popular sharing destinations - Facebook, BlueSky, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, HackerNews etc. You click the relevant icon and get taken to the site with the sharing details pre-filled. The problem is, every different site has a different intent for sharing links and…

"AI first" leaves humans nowhere. Learn about the Bus Factor and how the launch of ChatGPT has changed the landscape on knowledge sharing.

The willingness of those in power to act fairly depends on how easily others can collectively push back against unfair treatment, psychologists have found.

There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage. They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god...

There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.

I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know…

Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.

The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal.

Why would you want to make these hard times even more miserable by eliminating that rush of happiness you get from a bite of chocolate or from watching four episodes of Emily in Paris in one day?

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I comb through the endless branching shelves of the Internet in...

In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.

Anyone can generate an app now. You open Cursor, describe what you want, and out comes clean, well-formatted code. It even has comments. It runs, and the...

The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it

Dark patterns are tactics websites or apps use to nudge, manipulate or trick you into spending more money than you’d planned or providing personal data that’s not needed.This page describes common dark patterns you will encounter online, so you can identify and avoid them when shopping online.

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.

Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes:

Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

≠≠Up every morning promptly at 7, briefly enjoying breakfast around 8, consistently at his desk no later than 9, and then doggedly writing for five hours until no less than two-thousand words were …

The tech giant has floundered on AI. Now it’s going all in on a “superintelligence” team.