Discovered via several of my favourite people, including @kaib whose magazine I miss and newsletter remains one of the few I still like receiving.
I don’t think I agree with the idea that this is a ‘realignment’ that will be lasting. But this is an interesting read about US politics.
You create a community when you ‘get the joke’ behind a meme but memes generally don’t persuade,” he said.
I think this is useful insight around meme culture. It also feels a little obvious, but this is succinctly and precisely put.
The Asia-Pacific news team at ABC — often in collaboration with local reporters — consistently unearth fascinating stories and this is no exception.
Afunakwa sang a lullaby called Rorogwela, recorded in 1969 in the Solomon Islands region of Baegu and used in massive 1990s hit song Sweet Lullaby, by French group Deep Forest.
You can follow their work here (and there’s even an RSS feed).
The opening paragraphs of this story are completely unhinged.
Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special. Mayer — the former chief executive of Yahoo … felt overwhelmed by the range and complexity of potential answers.
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said.
What the future ecosystems look like is one of the biggest open questions we have right now. There is no question the status quo is being destroyed, but to what end is very unclear.
Also this:
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. “Just like a photograph of a mile marker can’t provide much of the value of actually going on a hike,” he said, “it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans.”
Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.
An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.
A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.
I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.
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