Tag: Consciousness
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‘I perfected deception’: My secret life as a relapsed alcoholic | Alcoholism | The Guardian
I don’t pretend to remember exactly what I was thinking during this time, or all the convoluted ways I rationalised my actions to myself, but I do remember the fundamental inability to buy into the reality of my secret life, and the inarticulate conviction that so long as the official version of my life continued…
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Benchma(r)king – James Bridle
What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no…
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iPhone Portrait Mode, 10 Years In
There’s a saying in painting that if you get the eyes right, nothing else matters. Inspired by this principle from oil painting, the idea was to make sure we never got the eyes wrong. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/25/manzari-iphone-portrait-mode
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Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough
A team transmitted electrical signals corresponding to Braille letters to human brain organoids, which are living neural tissues derived from stem cells. The results revealed that a single organoid, consisting of about 10,000 neurons, could classify the letters with about 61 percent accuracy, while teams of three organoids reached 83 percent accuracy. — Read on…
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John Battelle’s Search Blog In Defense of Writing (and Reading, and Conversation)
Not often does a New York Times’ OpEd rouse me to respond – but this one certainly did: I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. The author, Joe Cruz, is the chair of the philosophy department and the program on cognitive science at Williams College. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy……
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The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic | Television & radio | The Guardian
tackling Wuthering Heights “one word, one word, one word” at a time until suddenly the chaos of her classroom fell away and “it’s snowing. I’m on a moor.” — Read on www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/14/the-book-that-changed-my-life-review-bbc-two-iplayer
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David Squires on … the endless growth of football vodcasts and banal digital banter | Football | The Guardian
Our cartoonist looks at the battle for eyeball and earhole supremacy in the game’s rapidly changing media landscape — Read on www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2026/oct/13/david-squires-on-endless-growth-football-podcasts-vodcasts-banal-digital-banter
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DOC • Prompting as Self-Portrait
The chat window is the only place I can be completely uncertain and receive something completely confident back. Being vulnerable yet receiving certainty back are things we chase in our jobs, in our relationships, and in our lives. But living inside this distorted reality, we end up alienating ourselves from our world, from work, and…
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Things That Are Good to Do — Quarter Mile
Character compounds. Habits compound. Small choices matter. Protect your future self. Forgive your past self. Respect your present self. — Read on www.quarter–mile.com/Things-That-Are-Good-to-Do
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The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory
Unlike the other senses, smell needs no interpreter. The effect is immediate and undiluted by language, thought, or translation. A smell can be overwhelmingly nostalgic because it triggers powerful images and emotions before we have time to edit them. — Read on kottke.org/26/09/the-powerful-connection-between-smell-memory