This is how learning works. Be interested. Don’t assume you know anything. That’s how you stay dumb. Be a beginner. Ask questions.
This is how learning works. Be interested. Don’t assume you know anything. That’s how you stay dumb. Be a beginner. Ask questions.
‘Sterile’ is a word that accompanies the spread of modern corporate capitalism, precisely because of that process in which the rough edges of older, more informal markets are sanded away. In the midst of an accelerating capitalist economy, people operating according to its logic feel compelled to remove friction or ‘inefficiency’, but in doing so begin to scour away all the texture that gives a neighbourhood its soul. Inefficient snags are the very thing around which community collects, which is why efficiency can create malls but not community.
Gentrification appropriates the aesthetics of punk, anarchism, village life or immigrant culture, and uses it as a marketing tool while stripping away the substance of that culture.
The end result of a gentrification is an area that feels like a museum of itself. Your eyes catch glimpses of things that still look edgy, exotic or alternative, and yet your body does not feel it, because all those little cues that would be present in an authentic and alive space are missing. The honesty box by the beer fridge is gone. In its place is a Square terminal for cashless payments, plugging into the banking sector via Visa and Mastercard.
strange to shift from finger picking with contemporary pop chords to a kind of triplet blues. inspiring album concept.
Ingo Insterburg: Ich liebte ein Mädchen
style seems quite specific or idiomatic to German or Germany, curious to know other examples that fit this description
lilbee: the whole local AI stack in one executable
lilbee runs and manages the models across every GPU you have, then talks to everything you point it at: your files, your code, and the web. It crawls sites into your library, plugs into your coding agents, and backs the Obsidian plugin. Every answer cites the source, it all runs on your own machine, and there's nothing else to set up.
Jacob Bessen on How Sicilians are Neighbouring with Migrants
what do you want to keep purely for yourself, and what would actually be more fun if it were shared or done alongside other people?
Modern houses, built for self-contained nuclear families, are sealed against the world, the smells and sounds and life kept in, and that seal is precisely what has to be broken. In Sutera, people actively mourn the older ways of living around piazzas and street corners, because they wish they could easily see and feel the presence of others nearby and invite them in and go to others without invitation.
In this context, small towns aren’t boring because people are brilliant at talking, storytelling, and joking. That art atrophies without practice. In contrast, much sociality in much of modern life is organised around consumption rather than presence.
To enjoy breathing can mean enjoying the rest of your life.
Take your favorite indie developer out to coffee, look them in the eye, and tell them the $5.99 you just spent on them should be good to cover their work until they die.
Paulo César Pinheiro, Mauro Duarte: Nunca Mais
very brazillian to turn the same repeated phrase into flowy magic; melody works nicely as instrumental too
AI: Artificial Ingredients
git log -G "alfa" -p bravo/
Let's talk about Trump and the GOP’s red scare rhetoric failing on the youth....
[The right-wing managed to mainstream socialism, which socialists were never able to do, simply by using it as a "derogatory" label for every means of government assistance that helped people most in need.]
[Young people without Cold War experience of socialism embrace the political ideology without associating it with the Soviets.]
[Jargon is an indicator of high-resolution conversation between those inside domain. It may exclude people outside, but that doesn't it should be avoided inside. Help newcomers quickly get up to speed and they'll be happy to join in.]
[The experiment suggests that participants chose cake afterwards not only because their challenging cognitive task required more calories, but also because the same process drained their willpower to resist. There's only one pool for both.]
Every moment spent struggling with a confusing UI, frustrating customer service, poor documentation, or anything requiring patience, self-control, or intense concentration on the tool could be stealing resources from learning, practice, and becoming badass at the thing they really care about: the context.
The Zeigarnik Effect means cognitive resources are being consumed in the background while you’re doing other things. The more open/unfinished tasks that are running in the background, the less resources are available for focusing, practicing, and learning.
[Marketing materials focus on the compelling context, while remaining easy to understand. Learning content focuses on the tool, and the dry or hard to read material gets interpreted by the brain as spam.]
[Asking "Why?", "So what?, and "Who cares?" can help reframe unfocused material so that the brain says "worthy".]
[Easier for their brain is good, but less is better: is that element truly necessary?]
[Reading a physical book gives me a choice to turn the page, look away, put it down, and trust that it will be as I left it when coming back.]
He changed the job description of what a comedian could be.
[Selling to a satisfied person is hard.]
[Curiosity is an antidote to the fatigue and paralysis caused by information overload.]
[Listen to the ones who want you to think, not the ones selling you a team to join.]
[Listen to those who don't need anything from you.]
Another nice thing about being a regular at a place that values regulars is that you meet the other regulars. This summer I was often left to my own devices for dinner and a couple times a week, I ended up at my local. And almost without exception, I ended up having dinner with someone I’d previously met at the bar. Routinely turning a solo dining experience into dinner with a friend is an amazing accomplishment for a restaurant.
be sure to use AI when your next child
gets married, so that you can write them
the perfect toast or poem or speech or song
because no one wants to hear your
words, the actual poorly written words
of a parent (you) who changed
hundreds of diapers for said child or fed
them in the middle of the
night from your actual body. Or cried
when they were late home because
you were positive they were dead. We don't
want those words—we’d prefer the sterile
words of a machine that never lived, never
had an original thought, never felt
the pain of miscarriage or broken
relationships or the joy of a friendship restored
I’ll be over here in my 50th
year, my youngest daughter asleep on my chest,
my arm falling asleep because I dare not move
lest I scare away this moment,
lying here melancholy about my older
children moving out and my middle
children no longer needing me, at least
not like they used to, weary about this body
that fails me now in ever increasing ways
that will never be restored. Sighing
over stories I tried to write but never hit
the page the way they felt in my mind.
X: Claude Fable 5 will be available globally tomorrow!
X: But what about safety?
Me: First you must decide who you are focused on protecting? Users, citizens or existing power structures and specifically, which ones? The paths are not the same. Market benefit rarely coincides with social benefit.
In an ideal world: I write for you, you pay me, I write some more. No middlemen.
[Surprising someone changes their world.]