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sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking

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The Slop School of Internet Success and other lies about cyberspace

Adam Mastroianni substack.com

Models All The Way Down

knowingmachines.org

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

Stuff you should have been taught in college but weren’t

Casey Handmer caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Flounder Mode

Brie Wolfson joincolossus.com

The Great Note-Taking App Shitshow

drunkonideas.beehiiv.com

The Revenge of the Home Page | the New Yorker

Kyle Chayka newyorker.com

Reconciling Opposites Jul 02

Reconciling opposites in various aspects of life, such as freedom-order, individual-society, and rationality-sentiment, is explored through various perspectives and philosophical ideas.

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a beautiful doc with compilations from Lorenzo Servitije, the founder of Grupo Bimbo (and one of the richest men in Mexico) shared by a newsletter reader in response to the “both are true” issue.

Uncomfortable on Purpose

J.E. Petersen thedispatches.substack.com

Why Are We Lying to Young People About Work?

Maalvika maalvika.substack.com