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Why Adam Became a Crypto Shill
Adam Conover, whose videos I generally like, made an embarrassing mistake and accepted an offer to make a video about Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency company, World, and its Orb biometric scanning device. After folks complained and pointed out how working with…
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Why Speed Limits Don’t Matter
We set speed limits, we put them on signs, and we expect people to follow them. But in reality, it plays out a little differently. People don’t really drive based on what a sign tells them. So if signs don’t…
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The Who Cares Era
In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. Dan Sinker The Who Cares Era (Dan Sinker /blog)
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It’s the Interface
A whole lot of people – including computer scientists who should know better and academics who are usually thoughtful – are caught up in fanciful, magical beliefs about chatbots. Any sufficiently advanced technology and all that. But why chatbots specifically?…
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Dumplings, History & Authenticity
This article from University of Michigan’s LSA Magazine was an interesting read. Brown finds that when we look closely at the historic foodways that brought us popular dishes, we are “forced to consider that cuisines and cultures can’t be reduced…
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