Sam Liebeskind

Balanced, neither extracting too much from its component organisms nor pretending that a pantomime of a return to a pristine and ungoverned state will solve any problems at all. (Predation is inevitable in any system, but a working ecosystem starves out the ones who overfeed and provides cover for growth and for the long, continuous experiment of e... See more

the cure for loneliness is hospitality someone with charisma, resources & generosity can host a good party, make introductions, and lubricate the formation of social networks the best place to meet the love of your life is at your friend’s dinner party

While I was thinking through the cringe matrix, I thought a lot about celebrities. Given one of their main purposes as public figures is to both establish and violate social norms, thus providing us with both guidance and gossip, they’re always operating with a high cringe risk.

To support end-user customization, researchers have examined and built a variety of specialized tools that enable users to author person-alized content classifiers within social media [35, 40, 41, 63]. They have also explored generic techniques for non-technical people to build their own text classifiers

In recent years, there have been studies that designate digital hoarding as a subtype of psychological hoarding disorder. Much like physical hoarders, the subjects of these studies found it emotionally distressing to discard stored data, citing a fear of wasted potential for future use.

A young man in his mid-twenties, working in financial administration, sighed as he described the state of political discussion in his community. Despite the town being a “melting pot” of people from diverse backgrounds, there was a strong “disconnect” between groups and an inability, he sensed, for people with differing views to really understand o... See more