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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and... See more
John Gruber • ★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
Why Everybody Stopped Reading
youtube.comit speaks to the enduring value of the written word for social movements: experiences of past struggles, positive as much as negative, need to be passed on to coming generations, or they will have to start from scratch. In the age of social media, books become not less but more important in this regard. Countering the evanescence of an update or... See more
Andreas Malm introduces Verso's new free ebook, Property Will Cost Us
Andreas Malm on the importance of books for activism in the age of social media