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Agorithums and Safe Spaces Make Things Worse
The Tim Ferriss Show 477 with Yuval Noah Harari: the way that we will get so used to having these computers and robots that are very attuned to how we feel that we might become even more irritated with the humans who …
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Your Attention Is Yours
Dan Counsell writing in I Will Not Buy Another iPhone: Doing whatever they can to get my attention. The trouble is, I'm a sucker.Whilst I get it. The natural response is to blame someone else for the things that are …
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Google Search Ruined The Web
Nick Heer writing in Trust in Google Search Is Dying: Big publications are all trying to do their own take on the Wirecutter for home goods, and results for software are mostly marketing disguised as informative …
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Link Posts From Obsidian
This started off life as a link post to an interesting video on Matt Birchlers writing set up. However, it quickly spiralled out of control into me writing regular expressions, editing javascript and spending two days …
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The Ultimate Minimalist Phone
For the last few years, I have been looking to go back to simpler times. Ones that didn’t try to hack my brain every time I open my phone. Or, in fact, a time when I didn’t need to carry a phone with me at all. Those …
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Platforms Are Not Treated The Same
Coverage from Steriogum on Neil Young pulling his music from Spotify : In a open letter to his management and record label, which has since been taken down, Neil Young has asked that his music be promptly removed from …
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Breaking Rule #1
Cheri imploring me to join no social media club but not to talk about it: My feelings are true to me, but I don’t want others to feel judged for what they choose to doEveryone knows it. The first rule of any club, …
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Not Everything Has To Be Sold.
Charlie Warzel talking about Wordle in Galaxy Brain: Wordle’s success has scrambled the brains of people in tech who have a reflexive desire to monetize things that are popular.What if I just want to do a thing because I …
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Just Background Noise
When I wake at silly times in the morning and get out of bed, I don’t even know why I put the TV on. I am not bothered about what is showing on the screen, it doesn’t light my way in the dark, I must turn the volume down …
