I'm a librarian and I very much agree with the advice on how to diversify your news sources. Every medium has its strengths and weaknesses...and people who tell you what their sources are tend to be better sources for understanding reality.
The Verge did a whole thing on this. @paregorios.bsky.social has it.
www.theverge.com/policy/87901...
They're calling it Stupid Gallipoli
Just laughed out loud alone in my apartment at how perfect this exchange is and then realized none of my friends would have any idea WTF I'm talking about it if share it. This is possibly the ultimate SwiftOnSecurity post. Alienation as a Service.
Your series was great, thanks for the cross-suggestion. (and your French is not that bad....)
Myself I'm finding Zoolander a more comfortable frame.
Cursive handwriting is a technology from a particular time and place. I learned it in school, but not the style used in most of the "historical documents" people write essays about The Youth losing access to. It's fine, we'll be fine if more things become paleography lessons.
How not to do this is a whole area of librarian professional literature. Which they've presumably scraped before ignoring.
I know this is a very long shot, but...
Can anyone possibly point me towards an English translation of volume 1 of The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures (1886)? So far, I can only find it in German, & sadly, while I could have read that 25 years ago, I really can't anymore. Alas!
me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers
I've been looking at some remote work options, this'll be nice. Any advice on how to handle the waitlist for Station Two?
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
That's such a self-discrediting summary by the quiz. It has no idea why it's wrong about the McCarthy quote.
FLORSHEIM. A billionaire buys his people the normie shoes my parents bought me in high school in the 80s.
*adds to his annual goals*
"Cultivating spaces for meaningful exchange between students, faculty, and large territorial mammals."
Making your writing sound official doesn't make it official.
The best advice I have for writers is: the harder you try to impress people with your prose, the worse your prose will be. Sit down and try to communicate honestly, you will find the places for your flourishes and metaphors that actually serve greater meaning rather than your own ego.
Fascinated by how the pollster need to fit things into boxes and ranges excludes actual leftist opinion. This is still an interesting result, but "abolish ICE" has been polling the same as what's here.
bsky actually might be a vanguard for whatever the next phase of social media is, not in the decentralization sense but in the "we actually never intended for users to use the website and got mad when they did" sense
This dish won an award and I have no idea WTF it is.
"...coconut curry seafood noodle bowl—catfish and pickled vegetable roulade, tempura togarashi okra, catfish shrimp shumai, coconut red curry, lemongrass cilantro oil, rice noodles and Thai basil."
How much it costs in money is a ghastly lens through which to look at an illegal war which started by blowing up an elementary school. I do care about that, but it's not my primary concern.
Somehow the use of the LLM makes it all the more enraging, this literally high-powered (CPU-burning, fossil-fuel-burning) technology used to basically do a keyword search, adding no refinement or expertise, just augmenting ignorance in the service of destroying knowledge-making processes
This is a remarkable example of how perverse the incentives for tech companies are. And what you can get away with if almost all of your user base is there because they have no choice.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"
Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.
Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.
LOL
Picture of two bowls of soup with bread. Headline: Tomato Soup Is A Hug In A Bowl. Here Are Our Best Recipes. Sub-heading: A grilled cheese sandwich is optional but recommended.
Computer, show me everything I hate about food writing in one photo and caption. Please use two foods I despise.
Preventing a country from projecting power outside its borders is impossible. It is insane as a war aim.
Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?
Calling it early. "Demagnetized moral compass" is phrase of the day. @sarahjeong.bsky.social
"...the Ray-Bans are automatically suspicious due to Meta’s established history of carelessness and ongoing demonstration of its totally demagnetized moral compass."
www.theverge.com/policy/88634...
Headline: Surviving Leadership says Old Guard will remain in charge Israelis are tense but releived that Iran's supreme leader is dead Iranians are in disbelief after the country's supreme leader was assassinated OPEC Plus pledged production increase as Iran strikes threaten to raise oil prices
It is straight-up insane that Israeli public opinion and oil prices are the lead news items for NYT about an unprovoked US attack on Iran that killed its head of state and dozens of others. I'm aware this is a live news feed. Why are those stories what we're focusing on?
