Category: Links
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1. An anti-drone swarm laser system; claims to destroy 20 drones a minute 2. Our brain’s master editor, constructing our reality (X) 3. Billy Corgan is pretty sure he saw a shapeshifter once 4. Last gasp against nihilism. And then…(X)
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How to get control of YouTube. Shut off the algorithm and get a better landing page. How to get control of Spotify. Escape the algorithm, expand your listening. How to get control of Twitter. “Onboarding to Twitter is challenging. It’s not a rewarding experience for most people; your posts barely get any engagement at all…
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“A lot of you guys aren’t true introverts” (X) A professor gives advice on “existential depression” (X) A common misconception about introverts (X)
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These songs that make me think of Europe as “the other” – a remote place difficult for Americans to understand. The flip side of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. This is not to be confused with songs that deliberately make Europe seem exotic or remote. “This is the Day,” The The “Moderation” and “French Boys”,…
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“The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter.”Some guidelines for using Twitter as a superpower – meeting people, getting questions answered, learning. It covers how difficult it is getting traction at first. How to Be Found by Your People Online (YouTube) “Transform your Instagram Feed Into a Community Bulletin Board.” Make the Instagram algorithm biased to local…
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“Will Emerson talks about the impending financial turmoil”: “the only reason they get to continue living like kings is we have our fingers on the scale in their favor” “The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything” – “The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s…
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The PARA Method – the best way to organize a folder that I’ve ever found. Getting Things Done – Systematize the clutter in your brain and get things done – they call it work Zen for a reason. An opinionated guide to using Anki correctly. – repetitive ways to improve learning.
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Interesting things to look at on a Thursday morning. “Every American president, but they’re cool and they sport a mullet” (X) Crazy Clown Music – a David Lynch Music Video A ripple in Saturn’s rings (X) On hotel carpets: “I travel for a living. Stay in a lot of hotels. See a lot of carpet”.
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Hollywood has changed dramatically, in obvious ways to those old enough to remember the old system. Stars used to be marketed as gods, their words uniquely valuable, their images curated completely. Now it’s different. The internet makes controlling an image impossible, competition from social media, news, and unlimited streaming means only a handful of stars…
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In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari says that symbols tie cultures together. Without them, we couldn’t unite into nations and tribes. Money is a symbol, national identity is a symbol, brands and institutions are a symbol. Symbols therefore are important, and the digital world rushes over us with new symbols and destroys old symbols.…
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“the curve we’ve been riding just flattened into a long plateau.”(X) – a sensible look at what physics and energy teaches us about the future of AI. “What would a human pretending to be an AI say?” Interesting read on the language used by chatbots, and how it is based on human language. “AIs are…
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Why America is exceptional, the federal government, music of the Revolutionary War, an American outsider
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Careers, watch security, cities of Homer, Magic the Gathering with AI, and young Hollywood
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Nihilism’s last gasp, and other links of the day.
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One Way to Frame a Dungeon. Build dungeons around disasters. If the dungeon is a disaster site, every NPC has a reason to be there. The Dungeon as a Mythic Underworld. A dungeon should be more than rooms. A dungeon is a place of myth: “…it is an underworld: a place where the normal laws…
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