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But living on social media, seeing the world through its lens, is like returning to a pre-information age. First, because everything is current. Records of previous discussions fade quickly – miss a day and it is almost impossible to catch up. Instead, as with cycles of oral history, memories of the past are collective and…

We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone’s depressed. — Read on kottke.org/24/11/infinite-content

Ageing isn’t something that simply starts after you’ve reached a certain year. It’s a lifelong process, and in midlife your health needs can change — Read on www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/nov/21/how-to-stay-healthy-in-your-50s-ageing

Tout le monde croit pouvoir répondre à cette question. Pourtant, les définitions varient selon les spécialités scientifiques. Les chercheurs naviguent entre les disciplines pour décrire la dynamique du vivant et protéger au mieux une biodiversité menacée. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/11/19/au-fait-qu-est-ce-qu-une-espece_6403384_1650684.html

“The concept of the second brain is effectively a way that enables you to have another product that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, freeing you up for more high-value work,” says Robbie O’Connor at San Francisco-based productivity platform Notion. O’Connor used to work on Google Maps and compares the second brain…

Thousands flock to Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola and other former hidden gems just for photo ops — Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/15/selfie-mirror-rome-tiktok-visitor-boom-church

For these Austrian and Austrian-related thinkers, knowledge is about how different parts of a system fit together, rather than being a homegeneous metric easily expressed on a linear scale.  There is no legible way to assess the smarts of any single unit in the system, taken on its own. Furthermore, there are many “walls,” meaning…

“I know everything about humankind,” he thinks, still dreaming, and he resolves to reject both Settembrini and Naphta—or rather, to reject the stark choice between life and death, illness and health, recognizing that “man is the master of contradictions, they occur through him, and so he is more noble than they.” During his years on…

Consumers hardly ever realize it, but they hold traditional news media to vastly higher standards of accurate and ethical behavior than practically every other information source they encounter, even when they’ve started relying on those other information sources instead of the news media. It’s good consumers hold journalism to high standards. The problem here is…

Users relate to the AI in different ways: Tools. Users control AI to generate something. Copilots. The AI works alongside the user in an app in multiple ways. Agents. The AI has some autonomy over how it approaches a task. Chat. The user talks to the AI as a peer in real-time. — Read on…