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“Writing—I can really only speak to writing here—always, always only starts out as shit: an infant of monstrous aspect; bawling, ugly, terrible, and it stays terrible for a long, long time (sometimes forever). Unlike cooking, for example, where largely edible, if raw, ingredients are assembled, cut, heated, and otherwise manipulated into something both digestible and palatable, writing is closer to having to reverse-engineer a meal out of rotten food.” - David Rakoff
People: True live starts at 60. On having more interesting ideas. Spread of mental disorders? The age of the generalist. Making the coffee. The battle for attention.
Life: Whales have an alphabet (transcript of a podcast). Eagles avoid Ukraine air zone.
Business: Food marketing and weight loss drugs. Putting stuff in offline mode is a business. Is litigation a way to stable climate?
Cities: designing for autism, childs, older people, or for everyone. GenZ and cities?
Random: Paper objects (zines?) from antistatic. Engineers futurists. Three of the universe oldest stars are just around the milky way.
AI: Using SciFi to improve AI. AI outperforms humans at identifying mental states. Support for research. Mapping a LLM neurons. ChatXi-PT. The Council of the EU approved the AI Act on 21 May. US/EU regulation comparison. A roadmap to AI policy - US (PDF).
Microsoft: AI is there, now comes the hard part (full PDF).