Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

I enjoyed the octopus as narrator too!

BlueSky HOWTO: Custom Feed For Your Friends YouTube video by Albert Schueller

Create a custom feed for your friends. Here's a howto video I made. For folks coming from facebook and wanting to keep track of what your friends are talking about, this shows how to make a custom feed with just those friends. youtu.be/8kQUDEZaKGk
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Here’s just one I liked: “Whatever thoughts past writers have had about the virtues of attention, pessimists would argue that the problem is different now. It’s as if we’re not reading books so much as the books are reading us. TikTok is particularly adept at this…”

This is an interesting article that plays devil’s advocate against almost every proposition it makes. It gets a little dizzying to follow the push and pull to find its ultimate claim (which is not one I entirely agree with), but it also makes a few good points.

“But if we think together, we might arrive at a new and better idea in which we both believe. And if we think together over and over, we might construct a set of shared ideas for how to live.”

Should You Question Everything? In “Open Socrates,” the philosopher Agnes Callard reminds us how thinking should feel.

What is thinking? In the age of the Internet and social media, Joshua Rothman writes about how the Socratic method—the exploration of ideas through questions and answers—can help us think together and change our minds.