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Most jobs are going away and they aren't coming back. AI is coming for everything.

In the early 2010s, a new phenomenon emerged called an “Instagram wall”. In part, it was an outgrowth of the street-art movement of the 00s, a gentrification of graffiti that saw clean, officially sanctioned murals take over city walls, particularly in neighbourhoods where decrepit warehouses were plentiful. Street art became an attraction in and o... See more

The movie world was never the same after that film. As well as being an all-time blockbuster masterpiece, Star Wars was an absolute game-changer that truly showed what the medium could really do with its innovative special effects. The film, unsurprisingly, inspired many across the industry, and Cameron was very much one of them. Although he adored... See more

Companies don’t have communication problems, they have miscommunication problems. The smaller the company, group, or team, the fewer opportunities for miscommunication. As Osmo Wiio said, “If communication can fail, it will. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.”

“The internet, as we have known it, has evolved from a quaint, quirky place to a social utopia, and then to an algorithmic reality. In this reality, the primary task of these platforms is not about idealism or even entertainment — it is about extracting as much revenue as possible from human vanity, avarice, and narcissism.”

The tendency to put off, push away, or otherwise delay is strong. No. Act and move on. And act again if you have to — most decisions are temporary, anyway.

If alien intelligence has evolved similarly, we’d be most unlikely to catch it in the brief sliver of time when it was still embodied in the organic form. Particularly, were we to detect ET, it would be far more likely to be electronic, where the dominant creatures aren’t flesh and blood—and maybe aren’t even located on planets, but on stations in ... See more

Midway through his deep sleep, the riff for the famous Stones song appeared to him in a dream, which seems too unbelievable to be true, yet this tale isn’t a work of fiction. Luckily, the guitarist had a Phillips cassette player near his bedside and captured the magical piece of music rather than let it float into oblivion while half asleep.

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Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.