When ordinary fatherhood is treated as exceptional, ordinary motherhood becomes invisible. Read more ›
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²ChatGPT Plus. Claude Pro. Perplexity. Midjourney. Runway. Notion AI. I was spending over $120/month and constantly switching tabs. Then I… Read more ›
AI-based scientific automation is increasingly possible by using agents to generate hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze data. Data collection is a major bottleneck in this pipeline, however. Psychology, and computational cognitive science in particular, is well-positioned to benefit from AI experimentation because theories are often represented as code and crowdsourcing platforms enable programmatic human data collection at scale. Here, ... Read more ›
Join the Verso Book Club Reading Group for a discussion on the Manson murders as a prism of American culture.<a class="read-more" href=" Read more ›
Today marks the 44th anniversary of the release of Blade Runner, the iconic science-fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, which hit theaters on June 25, 1982. Starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, the film has since become a cultural touchstone, celebrated for its groundbreaking visuals, philosophical depth, and enduring influence on the sci-fi genre. You […] The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline, and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust. Read more ›
"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/david-bowie-workaholic-labyrinth-at-40-oral-history/?src=longreads#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory Read more ›
Personal Perspective: When academics announce they are offering “a phenomenological analysis,” they may as well say they are offering “a human analysis." Read more ›
Has anyone been issued a special issuance with a low working memory score on your nueropsych?? Read more ›
Missed the earlier installments? Here's Vol. 1 and here's Vol. 2. Years ago, more than a decade now, I edited a series of personal essays for a magazine called Pacific Standard. This was toward the tail end of the personal essay renaissance, those years when first-person writing Read more ›
Obsidian Entertainment has faced a lawsuit in the United States. The company was sued by former employees who claim it violated California labor laws. Read more ›
Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain sold hundreds of thousands of copies and spawned an entire ecosystem of tools, courses, and YouTube channels dedicated to capturing everything you encounter into an external system. The premise is appealing: your brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Offload the storage to Notion, Obsidian, Roam, or whatever tool you prefer, and free your cognitive overhead for creative work. The problem is that this is not quite how memory works, and leaning too h... Read more ›
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson dives into the data center revolt with three examples of communities fighting back and saying no, including Illinois, La Pine, Oregon, and Monterey Park, California. Then, Justine outlines a solarpunk standard for data center approval.Website: Social MediaBluesky: Articles and Other SourcesAmericans wary of AI-driven data center boom, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows power use to beat record hig... Read more ›
I'm considering giving up on my handwritten journal. Even using my favorite fountain pen and ink doesn't help me enjoy writing long entries by hand. I'm impatient, and my handwriting is getting worse, not better. The journal is only one of my notebooks, though, so it abandoning Read more ›
Camus’s novel A Happy Death and the television series Columbo both address, in their own way, the problem of existential guilt. The surprising similarity between the two stems from a shared source of inspiration: Dostoevsky’s novel Crime & Punishment. Existential guilt is thought to arise after the contemplation of human freedom and the painful […] Read more ›
Here at Puppy Play Time I believe your pup is a member of our family. We offer a comprehensive program that will fit to your pup's needs, from walking to playtime, socialization and daycare services. Read more ›
What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.40.1 (stable) How are you able to access your server: The webadmin SSH Describe your issue I’m having trouble getting system updates… Via the web admin, when I click ‘Fetch available updates’ it fails with the following: Unable to update the cache of APT (Debian’s package manager). Here is a dump of the sources.list lines, which might help identify problematic lines: sources.list:deb Apt-cacher ... Read more ›
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” — Abraham Maslow Read more ›