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Whose Taste Is It Anyway
Matt Birchler on what makes you interesting: Whether it’s Tomotometer scores or your online clan deciding something is good or the worst thing ever, I find these systems to make us all dumber and more angry. I’ve been …
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The Oppo Find X9 Pro: A Camera That Doesn't Get In The Way
I’ve written before about getting itchy feet with technology. That pull toward trying something new, usually an Android phone, before inevitably running back to iPhone a week later because of iMessage or iCloud or …
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A Very Human Vision for AI
A very human vision for going all-in on AI | The Vergecast I think there is a world where we all may be in this collective experiment where we’re deluding ourselves into thinking these things are more effective than they …
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Suger Training
The Unseen Effects of High Carb Training: I’m starting to feel like I trained my stomach to expect 200g + of sugar a day and the gut biome found balance with that. I trained my gut for racing and now it wants that food …
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Face Palm Alert
Manuel Moreale with a spot on observation regarding Ghost CEO John O’Nolan: You are on your own blog, your own corner of the web, powered by the platform you’re the CEO of, a blog that also serves content via RSS, the …
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Interoperability Is The Feature
Darren Cohen on moving back to Gmail: Going back to Gmail wasn’t about giving up my principles; it was about accepting that interoperability is itself a feature, and right now, Gmail is where most of the tools I care …
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Replacing QVC
I was oblivious to its creation, but apparently there’s a fediverse version of TikTok now. It’s called Loops. People are already comparing them, talking about whether Loops can “compete” with TikTok, whether it’ll …
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The Weird Part Was the Platforms
Stevie Bonifield in The indie web is here to make the internet weird again: The end of Twitter may be indirectly part of the flourishing of the indie web trend because there’s no longer a “default” social media hub …
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My Reading List
Craig Mod in Roden 109: ’Tis the season to Buy Things, apparently. So says every website in the world…Our faces are being smashed by sales. If you’re going to buy anything, I say buy books I hate Black Friday. Prime Day …
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90% Synthetic
Salvador Vilalta on the future of AI content: A study by Amazon Web Services estimates that 57% of online content is already generated or translated by artificial intelligence. And the boldest prediction comes from …