Is This Real Life?

as if the worst thing in the world is unstructured free time.

elle's homepage

I love it when elle posts stuff like this. She’s always so insightful.

Man, Brian Eno's take on generative AI is a brutal read. I got to the end and whispered, "damn" under my breath.

The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.

The Weekly World News version of the future

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "

Howard Thurman

Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity

The “I have taste” starter pack.

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Human. https://t.co/0UGsDy46yM

ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ — e/acc

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Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement

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Questlove is a treasure to humanity.

Abraham Maslow knows what’s up.

Via

the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (which in turn massively opens up what can happen, because you can just claim anything is fake and enough people will believe your or be unwilling or unable to sort out reality anyway) — this can also

SWL Week in Review

Bits of Sam Lessin’s latest email newsletter haven’t left me since I read it. I think you sign up on his website. Sorry, he doesn’t seem to have archives on the web anywhere.