2023 - To Read

Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help of my therapist, […]

There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.

This article contains some advice I’ve collected in my life so far.

According to new research, millennials, a generation often characterized as less wealthy than their parents, are not uniformly worse off than their Baby Boomer counterparts. They are, however, contending ...

People's experiences of private rental housing are linked to faster biological aging, our recent research finds.

Nature Machine Intelligence - The development of large language models is mainly a feat of engineering and so far has been largely disconnected from the field of linguistics. Exploring links...

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which houses more than 90m songs and is supported by names such as Martin Scorsese, is in need of a new home

More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their thoughts to themselves. […]

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet - Kapil Dutta

book marking publicly https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2023/10/23/testing-a-time-jumping-multiverse-killing-consciousness-spawning-theory-of-reality/

@sushee@fosstodon.org this article reminded me of our convo the other day re: luxury beliefs https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for

"..I think that means they’ve decided to take one abstraction layer that frees you from being locked into a particular backing store and wrapped it in a second abstraction layer that does exactly the opposite, and I guess that’s a choice you can make." 😂 https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/10/31/sequels-and-lights by @mhoye@mastodon.social

Notes on the SBF verdict

It's a clever hack, because instead of believing in God at the outset, you imagine yourself building an entity that is functionally identical with God. This way even committed atheists can rationalize their way into the comforts of faith. https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

yet another argument for #othernetworks: "In fact, we should acknowledge that most people are forced to live inside someone else’s imagination and one of the things we have to come to grips with is how the nightmares that many people are forced to endure are the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency, profit, and social control." (Ruha Benjamin, quoted here https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/challenging-techs-imagined-future/)

What a week - the Juneteenth commemoration in the US, Chicago house music interest trending as it's repurposed for new big-name pop, and the death of disco legend Patrick Adams. Every day is a good day to know your roots, so let's do this.

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