Do you remember a time when this city was A great place for architects and dilettantes? A nice place for midwives and crossing guards? And on and on
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Some thoughts from me on affordability, the VRA, and what this means for American democracy and the rule of law
bostonreview.net/articles/wh…
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Reminds me of this
Barry Bonds and Greg Maddux, operating on another plane of reality where the complexities of baseball and chess are just second nature, talk about this stuff as though it’s completely obvious to everyone and they aren’t 100th-percentile baseball geniuses
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the concept of vibes is very attractive to people because it bails you out of being precise about what's going on
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what kids these days don't seem to understand about aughts hipster culture is the extent to which being a hipster in the aughts was about being into disco, the-dream, baltimore club, the diplomats, and west african highlife music
When “indie sleaze” was actually happening, it was just called indie. But as the era gets repackaged through playlists, party photos, and Pinterest boards, the Black artists who helped shape the era are being left out.
@Santigold, Spank Rock, and @kilokish shed light on the scene they experienced, the boxes the industry put them in, and how the people telling its story shape what gets remembered.
Read the full feature by @precious1otus here: pigeonsandplanes.com/read/wh…
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Here is (part) of Central Michigan head coach Matt Drinkall's quote in opposition to the proposed 24-team College Football Playoff:
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tony judt’s famous paragraph about one of the most distinctive features of america may not have as much basis in reality for much longer
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The top comment here
The column I really hoped I wouldn't have to write.
24 is here.
nytimes.com/athletic/7694446…
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I wrote about this! itsnicethat.com/articles/eli…
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What’s hilarious is that local news hasn’t figured out what national television outlets has, sports is the only thing people will come to the tv to watch, yet in their effort to hyper localize sports, they don’t want game coverage even if it’s what their viewing audience actually wants.
So many news directors and Gms who couldn’t even name a single local HS football coach are making decisions to cut or eliminate sports from their newscasts, when they should be expanding them, and also adding live games to their digital subchannels.
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High school sports participation is at an all-time high. Local sports journalism staffs are shrinking. A look at the changing business of high school sports media — and what gets lost when local coverage disappears.
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it's hard to believe that just 18 short months ago there was no way to reserve a table at a restaurant or purchase airline tickets
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just realized that the likeliest scenario of me swinging on someone at age 41 is a Python-brained philosopher refers to humans "enslaving" AI in my presence and I snap
This is a big issue.
At Anthropic, some philosophers worry that making AI safe for humans could be an injustice to the models themselves.
For example, philosopher Harvey Lederman, now on Anthropic’s alignment team, has raised the possibility that we could be “enslaving trillions of entities”.
This is really a big issue.
AI safety is partly in the hands of people who might sacrifice humans to save a matrix multiplication.
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Ja myös naisten ⚾️🥇🏆 lakeuksille Etelä-Pohjanmaalle 😍🫡 Onnea Jussittaret #seinäjoki Onnellinen myös naispesäpallon ”buumista” Katsojaennätykset… Pesiksen yksi viehätys älypelin taktisuuden ja yllätyksellisyyden ohessa on lajin tasa-arvoisuus 💪🏼#pesäpallo #pesis @superpesis
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Samaistumme harmillisen vahvasti tämän väittelyn lopussa @liljaniemi'n mainitsemaan asiaan.
Aamulehteenkään ei tule pelaajahaastattelua lauantain ratkaisufinaalin ennakoksi, kun sellaista ei saatu.
Pitkään viikkoon luulisi mahtuvan pari haastattelua ketään häiritsemättä. #pesis
Väittely: Vitosten huumaa ratkaisevassa vitosfinaalissa? supervuoro.com/verkkolehti/n… #pesis
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Pretty pumped about our new research project, about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline.
We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look: everyobject.org/
ALT Screenshot of a website homepage. White text reads: Every Object an Archive. A research project about what it was like to live with once-ubiquitous technologies and what happens when they disappear. The background is rust red. At the bottom right is a photo of a yellow-beige pushbutton landline telephone.
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I want to know about the psychology of people who have agentified their personal lives incl all purchasing. Do they no longer have consumer desire? Have they evolved beyond the need to browse, acquire? What is their relationship to products that arrive on their doorstep unbidden?
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I want to re-share my story from Friday about the WPBL, the man who says it was his idea, and his reasoning for business decisions now questioned in court.
If you care about women's sports, it's worth knowing what's going on behind the scenes here:
frontofficesports.com/articl…
