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Jeff Jarvis : The irony is that in a zealous effort to protect the distinctiveness — the sanctity — of human text, the authorities and the technologists deprecate what makes text human. ~ Link: Words Matter. Damnit. , by Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine
Time for some links, time for some reading pleasures: Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t , by Emma Adler, Public Books G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost , by Shayla Love, New Yorker How Mandarin Became Standard Chinese , by Jingyu, Old North Whale
I enjoy coding, programming, scripting, or whatever you want to call it. I enjoy figuring out what I want my computer to do for me, and figuring out how to make my computer do what I want my computer to do for me. As part of the bargain for work work, though, I also have to figure out how to tell people how to code. These are not the most enjoyable part of what I do. Not every software project can…
Life is beautiful. Life is filled with little bits of joy and comfort, and grief and sadness. Life is about memories. And also hope. Life is short enough that Death is not far from the mind. Life is long enough that Death can be far from the mind, at least for a while. Life is beautiful. ~ Just finished reading: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt , by Ben Reeves. Love this novel about life.
There are men who are lonely. But, according to Nick Keppler in this Slate article, "there is one group that is drastically lonelier than everyone else:" poor people. One reason: people with low-paying jobs have little or no co-workers, or little or no long-term co-workers. ~ Link: America’s Loneliness Trap , by Nick Keppler, Slate
I do follow channels in YouTube via RSS feeds, and when new videos arrive at my RSS reader, I will decide whether to sideload them into my podcast player or my bookmarking app for viewing later. Here are other options you can employ that doesn't involve YouTube's algorithms. ~ Link: How to Experience YouTube With No Algorithm , by Lou Plummer, Amerpie
After the serious missteps two years ago, it certainly seems to me that Apple is figuring out what to do with AI. (On the other hand, what we want from everyone's AI is still far from clear.) ~ Link: Apple Trains Its Own AI Model for China Market With Alibaba's Support, Sources Say , by Reuters
D. J. Taylor: The editor was a symbol of this growing suspicion that every book a firm published had to be as good as it could possibly be, and that pains were worth taking over a promising work by a raw talent that might need knocking into shape before it could be placed in hard covers and sent out to the reviewers. ~ Link: Wielding the Blue Pencil , by D. J. Taylor, Portico
I have decided to use Apple Notes to log stuff in my life, with the promise from Apple that, firstly Apple Notes sync across my iPhone and my Mac, and secondly, I can manipulate notes using Shortcuts. I've created a new Shortcut on my iPhone that asks for a line of text input, and the Shortcut will then append the current timestamp and that line of text into an existing note. This is working fine,…
It's mid-week, and we are halfway to the weekend. Do you have some time to do some reading? The Doulas Who Help Us Die , by Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever , by Charles Digges, Nautilus Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? , by Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine