Shared links.
2022 May
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🔗 You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you (classroom-friendly version) - The Oatmeal via web
The Oatmeal on disinformation and the backfire effect
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My Android didn't have the "delete advertising ID" option, but had an "Opt out of ads personalization" toggle.
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An extreme example of lifelogging: "Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, ... the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time."
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Matt Webb on how we're all larping online and irl
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Eric Hinton on roguelikes: "Roguelikes work in the strange medium of love, in which something happens by chance and, for no reason, you decide that it’s your reason for going on, that you would risk everything for this coin flip of fate"
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Advice that changed Vonnegut's life: "“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.” "
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Warren Ellis shares his blogroll, if you need more blogs to follow.
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From a 70yo: "Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals, vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic." "Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating us."
"So embrace detours. Life is not a straight line for anyone."
"You cant reason someone out of a notion that they didn’t reason themselves into." I wish this list was numbered though.
2022 April
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More blogs to check out and more things to add to the ever-growing backlog of things I want to add to my own blog.
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Some great ideas here, and making me think about some of the stuff I've wanted to do on my own site for a while.
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Related: Mobile games have a short shelf life https://roytang.net/2019/04/mobile-games/
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An essay on how the internet changed our daily lives
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Interesting real-life story about a theoretical plan from the 1970s to send a probe to a star 5.9 light years away. Using 1970s knowledge/tech!
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Benedict Evans on the problems with algorithmic news feeds
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A fantasy novelette about dragons I bookmarked last month but only read now. Great plot and worldbuilding. The author has a thread about it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singlecrow/status/1481023517479026693