We have all been there. You are in a comment section or a group chat. Someone says something that isn’t just wrong—it’s fundamentally confused. Maybe they think an AI chatbot is a conscious person because it said "I'm sad." Maybe they think they understand war because they play Call of Duty. Maybe they think running … Continue reading Why You Can’t Win That Internet Argument (And Shouldn’t Try)
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Parking Lots & Cultural Stans
"The twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parking have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.” The quote is from urban designer Jeff Speck. It’s hard to think of a pithier one to describe the parking pandemic blighting America’s city centers — except perhaps the … Continue reading Parking Lots & Cultural Stans
Having a Good Internet Experience
Try to use different lenses of interpretation and without an agenda. Learn to block people, preferably with your mind. Keep your shit to yourself. Learn to say, "It's none of my business." Lurk. Be skeptical. Focus on the positive. I thought this Tumblr post was useful, so I reformulated the suggestions as the above. True … Continue reading Having a Good Internet Experience
Get Blogging!
"Your easy guide to starting a new blog. A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes." -https://getblogging.org/ I've been blogging since January 2017. In those five … Continue reading Get Blogging!
Hypothes.is
"Hypothesis is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site.-https://web.hypothes.is/about/ I thought I had bookmarked this here before, but it looks like I did not. I thought I'd add for anyone who finds the idea interesting.
People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
"In the current digital age, people are constantly connected to online information. The present research provides evidence that on-demand access to external information, enabled by the internet and search engines like Google, blurs the boundaries between internal and external knowledge, causing people to believe they could—or did—remember what they actually just found. Using Google to … Continue reading People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
You.com
"You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, today announced its public beta launch...Founded in 2020 by Socher and Bryan McCann, You.com leverages natural language processing (NLP) — a form of AI — to understand search queries, rank the results, and semantically parse the queries into different languages, including programming languages. The … Continue reading You.com
Silence & Wanting to Be Heard
"Is it necessary that every single person on this planet expresses every single opinion that they have on every single thing that occurs all at the same time?” he asks. “Can anyone, any single one, can anyone shut the fuck up about anything, any single thing? Can any single person shut the fuck up about … Continue reading Silence & Wanting to Be Heard
Explained From First Principles
"The goal of this website is to provide the best introduction available to the covered subjects. After doing a lot of research about a particular topic, I write the articles for my past self in the hope they are useful to the present you. Each article is intended to be the first one that you … Continue reading Explained From First Principles
Sifting the Internet for Gold
"...which of my beliefs remain unchanged? What assumptions will remain in place? What trends will be accelerated, which delayed, and which stopped entirely? What do I care about that has become newly relevant, and what no longer matters?-Toby Shorin, Drew Austin, Kara Kittel, Edouard Urcades, "Premonition." subpixel.space. March 25, 2021. Something about the phrase "lifestyle … Continue reading Sifting the Internet for Gold
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