Tenderly Tracking My Husband. “Knowing when to step in and tell a loved one with [Alzheimer’s] that they can no longer do something because it’s too risky is a game of chance we caregivers hate to play.” Lovely & heartbreaking.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction."
Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga. “Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise.”
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• Kate Mothes
Hugh Broughton Architects incorporates designs by artist and illustrator James Lambert, who interprets the distinctive character of each location.
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• Krista Stevens
"Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences."
Pinterest Has Become Unusable. “When I started painting again in January, I went back to Pinterest and found it overrun with AI slop. It’s continued to get worse and worse, and it’s now basically unusable.”
An unusual new-to-me animal: the aardwolf. It’s a hyena but it eats insects like an aardvark. The cubs are incredibly cute.
A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.
I have never knowingly finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI. It feels like being lied to, and who would stand for that?
[...] It makes me think less of the author. It means they can't write well unaided (or feel they can't), and that they're trying to trick me.
It's not impressive to use AI to write stuff for you; any teenager can do that.
Tags: writing, ai-misuse, paul-graham, generative-ai, ai, llms
Essential summertime reading: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.”
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• Kate Mothes
As bees build their hive, ceramics are mended in the spirit of a time-honored Japanese craft tradition.
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Is the Fitbit Air the true Whoop 5.0 killer? MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Affiliate Links Fitbit Air: https://geni.us/W24DGJY Whoop: https://geni.us/0vkguAL Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 Fitbit provided by Google for review. ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI debate."
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• Kate Mothes
Nature and magic come alive in tiny watercolor scenes.
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