Category: wastebook
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Why the people inside the AI bubble genuinely believe the machines might kill everyone, and, in Culture Corner, sweatpants.
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Holiday Laundromat facade sign, dinosaur detail, Route 40, Vernal, Utah – The Library of Congress The 1Password thing 1Password gave $300,000 to DHH’s Omarchy. I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to…
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The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020
Millennial pink, sage, ocher, beveled edges — a palette and a reading of the aesthetic that turned “good design” into the product itself. Built from Molly Fischer’s 2020 essay for The Cut.
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Laws, anecdotes, and other shit people say
Betty Crocker, mid-1950s. I heard a reference the Betty Crocker “add an egg” cake-mix story recently. It is: originally, people didn’t buy the cake mix because it felt too easy and didn’t feel loving, or at least sufficiently Calvinistic; General Mills removed the egg, then people cracked one in themselves, and suddenly they felt like…
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If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help,…
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Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just OK.”
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The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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“I have no idea what Federighi’s stance is on break-room bananas, but it seems a stretch to think it offers clues to Apple’s strategy on data centers.” The Information: ‘With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI’
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Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.
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I suppose it can be said that I’m an absent-minded driver. It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it. Glenn Gould
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No, no…AI won’t replace you. A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.
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“cradle-to-crematorium biography” The best non-fiction to read this year
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“Labor is valuable only insofar as it occupies a constraint the firm hasn’t yet automated.”
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“Your brain hates unbounded risk. When there’s no plan, it escalates into dread.”
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Perhaps the attraction is that film noir is a way of traveling into the past—the world right before I was born. When watching old films, I like to remind myself that to the people in the film, their world was just as rich as ours and felt just as “now” as ours does. Here’s John…
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Once again I’m logging in from Ibiza. I wouldn’t say I’ve gone native, but I’ve been here long enough to get it. This is not fierce, grind-it-out, Silicon Valley society; even Austin Texas, that wellspring of slackerdom, has a harsher work-ethic. This little Mediterranean island with some genuine Lotus-eater aspects to it – the island…
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Enassholeification.
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Consumer tech focuses on the process, enterprise tech on the outcome.
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I became one of a countless number of young men who found solace in Nietzsche’s thought. A life-affirming philosophy compensated for not being very good at life. Wasn’t I smart enough to reject God, and strong enough not to need a supernatural crutch? And: We continue to see demonstrations of some of the same pitfalls…
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