MargaretC
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MargaretC
"A soft rain begins to fall and we walk on as the street closes in around us, like a bird quieting for the night. And then, there it is: the shop we call the Time Warp Toy Store. Enter and it is 1983. He-Man reigns supreme. Barbie has crimped hair and dangerously sharp shoulder pads. I pick up a puzzle, on the side of the box a stamp reads: Made in
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idea generation and
The Idea compass: A good tool to use for idea generation, reading comprehension, and note-taking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rnsULzez-g&list=PL30jbp8g9G5m8xJrOFnbN3z2LrSLeA57A&index=31
Women fill with fury at waste, eco-apocalypse and the pressure to be flawless in a lyrical and oblique short story collection
Lauren Elkin • Florida by Lauren Groff review – rage and refusal as Earth reaps the whirlwind
how “living in the future” can prime you for pattern breaking. In Mike’s own words:
You need to experience firsthand the new powers that inflections confer on people. By interacting with that thing—by using it, experimenting with it, probing its powers—and by interacting with other people who are also living in the future, you begin cultivating new... See more
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
AI - Company rollout
sublime.app
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
Write Around the World with Richard E. Grant episode 3
dailymotion.comSpain and Resisting the Steady Path
Covers authors inspired to move to Spain as well as fascism in Spain during and after wwii
“If you can’t decide, pretend you’re deciding for a friend.”
Solomon’s paradox is a robust finding that we're better at solving other people's problems than our own, because detachment yields objectivity. But research has found that viewing oneself in the 3rd person yields the same detachment and objectivity. So if... See more