🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 Prison Abolition Even For Elizabeth Holmes.
Clearly. I have no idea who Elizabeth Homes really is, though I do have my own biased opinions that she is a con artist, but Nathan Robinson highlights a conundrum that goes beyond her case. That said - what would be very wrong is for Holmes to be the one that breaks the mold.
Half of me already thinks that she planned this pregnancy yo use it as a ‘get out of jail’ card.
“Managers were apparently instructed to provide lists of people who should be promoted, only for those managers to then be fired and replaced by the lower-paid people they’d recommended for promotion.”
I heard that he thought Squid Game was real.
There’s an entire section in the bookshop called Self-Help, but there is no section called Help Others.
💬 Simon Sinek
Oh the irony.
🔗 Amazon to pay $150,000 over Kindle removing 1984
One of the plaintiffs, Justin Gawronski, has a compelling story about his experience with Amazon’s memory hole. Apparently, he was reading his copy of 1984 as a summer assignment for school, and had been using one of the Kindle’s selling points—the ability to attach notes to specific parts of the e-book text—to prepare for his return to school. Since he was actively reading the work when Amazon pulled the plug, he actually got to watch the work vanish from his screen.
🔗 I hope I am not restricting myself here, because it could get challenging.
Updates:
March 3rd - yup - already widened the definition.
March 5th - I think I’ve nailed it. (Though I had to retake a couple of images to get the consistency I was seeking.) Let’s see how it holds up. Then I will explain.
March 11th - it’s a ‘bit of a cheat’ … but arguably still fits into the ‘rules.
March 31st - we did it!
🔗 Is this the best comment on Rishi Sunak’s new Northern Ireland deal?
“if food is available on supermarket shelves in Britain”
‘If’ … not ‘when’.
Strikes me as a good list for any country to aspire to.
Lovely.
🔗 ChatGPT is basically a user interface for search.
.. maybe more a UI for answers?
🔗 An American healthcare story; A Whole Lotta Nothing via @dave
“ The entire world except the US figured out the cost of medicine is easy to handle if it is shared by all. I don’t think anything will change in the US in my lifetime, if I really want health security as I get older, I would have to leave the country.“
The American way is ‘I’, whilst a lot of the rest of world is ‘we’ … though in the U.K. at least, the government is moving as fast it can towards ‘I’ and away from ‘we’.
The 51st state is alive and well.
Such a nice chap … 🔗 A Rundown of All the Legal Cases Against Donald Trump … it’s extraordinary how sprawling the ‘woke left’s’ conspiracy against him actually is!
🔗 First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4
…. and still no RSS emoji.
I am not a paid subscriber to RibbonFarm, so I can’t offer you any insight into what 🔗 all this has to do with friction, AI, meaning, and zero-interest rates? (Readwise link that includes a few highlights) … but it made for a fascinating read in its own right … particularly in light of the Meccano news I linked to a couple of days ago - and the Lego comparisons.
A great example of why I enjoy reading the ideas of Venkatesh Rao.
Exploring Tracking Crud in Readwise
This is in Stoop.
I click on the ‘Read On’ link and see this.
BUT - if I save to ‘Read Later' in ‘Readwise’ and then open Readwise, I see this
🔗 The original page (sans the 5 lines of tracking crud)
Here’s what I am wondering.
When I visit the public Readwise link it includes this tracking crud;
which to this untrained bear, seems to be very different tracking crud to Liminals, so there is some rewriting going on?
Why?
And …
If I remove that tracking crud, I can still see the article, so could Readwise automatically remove that tracking crud as they save the link into my library?
Tom Evslin with some interesting arguments around climate, population and the world at large. Who knows if he is right and since we do not know, it’s probably not a good idea to assume.
What’s that stock warning?
… historical performance should not etc etc.
Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong person peels an orange. On some level this makes sense: When your model of the world is paper thin, a tenuous thing that startles you endlessly, the few experiences that become routine carry a lot of weight. If someone else peels the orange then you might as well change the rules of gravity, too.
🔗 Dispatches from childhood, Simon Sarris
Lovely.
If you love blue album covers AND/OR you didn’t know that blue album covers were a thing, then 🔗 The Feminine Blue Mystique - by Rachel Cabitt is the place for you.