Especially if it included colour commentary like a sports event.

omg I used this analogy on Monday. seems a lot of people are seeing the connection

/2 AIso it did not occur to me that a person could use his blog to publish all the letters to the editor that the papers would not publish

I will be back in about six months

The Epstein class are not elites. Just morally-bankrupt fascist wealth-hoarders. Losers by any metric except the nonsense ones they made up for themselves that have no bearing in healthy society.

Michael Bublé and Taylor Swift over here, hehe. Youngest is full on multi-genre indie love. (I also benefit from all that great music they find).

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When my daughter was young she combined “in a bit” and “in a minute” to “in a bit minute” which seems like the same vibe!

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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In all the current discussion, I see the concern about iteration on the world, but the issue isn’t iteration, that is life. Everything and everyone refines and grows (and dies) through iterative processes. The issue is iterating without ethics, without consideration for impacts. Short-termers.

I was thinking horoscopes as well — generic enough to read into, but meaningless.

Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop

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The actual cure for loneliness is genuine connection and self-reflection. And probably really interesting pursuits.

The Paradox of Hard Work Why do people enjoy doing difficult things?

Thinking about this in an environment beset by chatbots.

“…exerting effort ‘seems to be the key route, maybe the only route, by which you can fulfill certain needs, like the needs for competence and mastery and maybe even self-understanding. You can’t get those without pushing yourself.’”

Evil is banal (Arendt, 1963) and has wickedly crap typography and design skills. Shallow, short-term, selfish.

Is it the lack of introspection or reflection? A gross inability to respect anyone else’s PoV? The servile cognitive abdication to power (and now genAI)?

Goodness takes purposeful effort.

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When I get it easy, I tell myself it must have been an easy one. When I get it and it was difficult, I am so proud of myself. Over-the-top delighted. Today was a delightful day!

How WhatsApp ate the world WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

I get how not having links on Twitter runs counter to the old principles the open web, but this story (by the great-as-usual @issielapowsky.bsky.social) is even bigger. Instead of global businesses being on the internet, they become part of More Facebook. restofworld.org/2024/how-wha...

My objections to generative AI movies/music/books is not that it isn’t *good enough*, it’s that it’s derivative and soulless and takes over the things that bring joy to humans.

Generative AI that is used as a tool, I’m more on the fence about, because I see the value of removing *some* friction.

The beautiful whole of you - commUnity Introducing commUnity: connecting communicators in Waterloo Region. An essay about overcoming isolation made worse by social media.

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I had a brief fantasy of saying, yes, until you solve your gun problem, USA, there will be a 25% surcharge as well as your 25% tariff. Enjoy not having cars or wood or steel!

A dilute orange tabby curling around a caucasian woman’s hand while on a bed, attacking her hand with his foot up in the air, all his toebeans exposed and spread out.

Ringo is extra graceful first thing in the morning during “attack the hand” yoga.

#ringo #orangecat

The afternoon sky was a gradient from the larimar horizon to the deep blue overhead. Ominous stony clouds lumbered across it, cooling the light.

#natureIsAPoem #blueSkyDay #hello

A dilute orange tabby cat drinks water upside down over the tap on a white sink.

Just orange things.