This essay makes a well-researched argument for why Fortnite is uniquely positioned to be the start of the Metaverse. If youâre like me and havenât been paying much attention to the game, this is an excellent primer on its history and cultural importance.
Oh wow, these examples of space colony art from the 1970s are awesome.
âPharmaceutical and biotech companies and health startups see the opportunity Instagram presents and are increasingly using influencer-advertising as a way to increase their bottom lines.â These stories are awful, and also not unexpected at all.
The real reason behind the rise of helicopter parenting: âAcross countries, the intensity of parenting lines up very closely with economic inequality,â said Doepke. Parents get more intense as a country gets more unequal over time, and grow more permissive if the country gets more equal.
The best way to help kids recognize fake news is to teach them to be fact-checkers: A better approach, according to experts like Hornik, would be to teach kids at a young age the skills of lateral learning, including how to âinterrogate information instead of simply consuming it,â âverify information before sharing it,â âreject rank and popularity as a proxy for reliability,â âunderstand that the sender of information is often not its source,â and âacknowledge the implicit prejudices we all carry.â Anything short of that is a waste of time and resources. We can all learn from this process, I think.
Iâm feeling this quote more and more these days: The Republic of Newsletters and the Isles of Blogging, my friend. Thatâs whatâs left. Messages in bottles from hermit caves by the sea.
Elisabeth Sherman on family group texts and anxiety: Writing for Psychology Today in 2014, Theresa DiDonato, a social psychologist at Loyola University Maryland, said that constant texting can lead to âa cycle of mobile relationship maintenanceâ, in which âindividuals begin to feel an overdependenceâ, potentially violating your sense of privacy and autonomy. The otherwise innocuous act of texting can then strain close bonds between loved ones, and even create feelings of resentment toward people who are probably well-intentioned, but unaware of the toll of their excessive communications on your psyche.
So this was an interesting find today. It is, as best I can tell, an original pressing (Discogs release #10900025 if anyone wants to check my work). Itâs not a Blakey album I was familiar with, but I had a quick listen and loved it. Hidden gem for sure. Anyway, the vinyl didnât look to be in great condition. So I talked them down (a lot), gave it a good wash (3 times), and am now listening through it. Not gonna lie, itâs not the quietest record I own. But I feel like itâs pretty good for something that was made in 1967 and has obviously been played a lot. Pretty sure I can sell it for 3x what I bought it for. But not this time. This is not an easy record to come by. So Iâm hanging on for dear life to this piece of history.
This Quartz deep-dive on the drum beat known as the âPurdie Shuffleâ is amazing and now Iâm hearing it absolutely everywhere.
Not gonna lie, this is a question that has kept me awake many times. But no more! Why canât a bot tick the âIâm not a robotâ box? There is difference between how humans move the mouse versus how bots do. Googleâs reCaptcha system takes advantage of the above fact to predict whether you are a human or not. Googleâs reCaptcha system has a predictive model trained with sample mouse movements made by both humans and abusive bots. As you move your mouse over the âIâm not a robotâ widget towards the checkbox to click, every tiny movement is captured and sent to the predictive model. The predictive model analyzes your mouse movements against the sample set of data and decide whether you are human or a bot.