John Warner: One Small Step to Address the Student Mental Health Crisis. Here’s two things that are not causing the incidence of anxiety and depression to increase among young people 1. Smartphones. 2. Helicopter parenting. (more)

aka economic precarity: people facing it are called the precariat

author of book against teaching the standard Essay: Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (more)

short-form Non-Fiction (more)

In rhetoric, emotive conjugation or emotional conjugation (also known as Russell's conjugation)[1] is a rhetorical technique used to create an intrinsic bias towards or against a piece of information. Bias is created by using the emotional connotation of a word to prime a response from the audience by creating a loaded statement. When used seriously, such loaded language can lend false support to an argument through emotional connotation and implication rather than through fact. Emotional conjugation was originally defined by Bertrand Russell in 1948 on the BBC Radio program, The Brains Trust.[2] During an interview, he gave multiple examples of emotive conjugation, one of them being the following:[3] "I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation is-ism, cf goldilocks zone

Venkatesh Rao on Fifth-Generation Management, which doesn’t actually exist yet. The idea of generations in management, in the form I’m going to lay it out, is causally related to the idea of generations of warfare, and in particular the idea that contemporary styles of warfare strongly shape future styles of management (more)

James P. Carse (December 24, 1932 – September 25, 2020)[1] was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University. His book Finite and Infinite Games was widely influential. He was religious "in the sense that I am endlessly fascinated with the unknowability of what it means to be human, to exist at all." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Carse (more)

Sarah Constantin: Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences. Recently, OpenAI came out with a new language model that automatically synthesizes text, called GPT-2. (cf AGI) (more)

Bob Lefsetz: E-Book Revolution. Distribution is king. (more)

This smells like a good deal: $300 for a Chromebook where the keyboard is removable, giving you a tablet. "Lenovo - IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook 2-in1 Laptop - 13.3" Full HD Touchscreen - Snapdragon 7cG2 - 8GB - 128GB eMMC - with Keyboard - Abyss Blue" (more)

Craig Mod: The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected. (See past 2015-10-01-ModStagnantCanDigitalBooksEverReplacePrint) The Future Book (ebook) was meant to be interactive, moving, alive. (more)

Luca Dellanna: Roam-native ebooks: Creating a new publishing format. I have just published the first Roam-native book, or “rBook” for short. Its title is Ergodicity, and in addition to the traditional ebook formats of pdf, ePub and mobi, it is also available in Roam json format. See Wiki-Ebook. (more)

Intercom's customer service ai chatbot (more)

Facebook built the perfect ChatBot but can’t give it to you yet. Facebook’s assistant, named M, is the smartest of the bunch. (more)

Facebook is shutting down M, its personal assistant service that combined humans and AI. (Intelligent Software Assistant) (more)

aka Video Game, Interactive Game (more)

Robin Sloan has a print-Zine out titled "Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail". In 1792, during George Washington's first term, Congress passed An Act to establish the Post-Office and Post Roads within the United States (more)

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city famous for its water crisis. Flint is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. The population was 81,252 at the 2020 census,[5] and was estimated to be 79,735 in 2024.[6] making it the largest city in Genesee County and the 12th-most populous city in Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan (more)

Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum, and brine will flow more freely. When the hydraulic pressure is removed from the well, small grains of hydraulic fracturing proppants (either sand or aluminium oxide) hold the fractures open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking (more)