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📚 Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)

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2024/04/17

Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. The protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups, after his doctor remarks that insomnia is not “real suffering” and that he should find out what it is really like … Continue reading "📚 Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)" The post 📚 Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

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2024/04/16

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him.[1] The book is partially … Continue reading "📚 A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)" The post 📚 A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) first appeared on Read Write

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📑 The Red Hand Files #280 by Nick Cave

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2024/04/13

Our lives are complicated and we all think and do things that are often unfathomable to one another, but we do so because we live our experiences and find our truths in different places. To my considerable surprise, I have found some of my truths in that wholly fallible, often disappointing, deeply weird, and thoroughly … Continue reading "📑 The Red Hand Files #280 by Nick Cave" The post 📑 The Red Hand Files #280 by Nick Cave first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📺 Love in Bright Landscapes: The Story of David...

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2024/04/06

Love in Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb of the Triffids is a feature-length documentary, depicting the life and times of late Australian songwriter David McComb (February 17, 1962 – February 2, 1999) best known for his work with the Triffids, a band he co-founded in Perth, Western Australia. The Triffids were active between … Continue reading "📺 Love in Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb of the Triffids" The post 📺 Love in Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb

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📚 All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)

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2024/03/26

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. It was a bestseller, winning both the U.S. National Book Award[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is the first of McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Pretty_Horses_(novel) — All the Pretty Horses is another Cormac McCarthy novel … Continue reading "📚 All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)" The post 📚 All the Pretty

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📚 The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy)

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2024/03/26

The novel follows Bobby Western, a salvage diver, across the Gulf of Mexico and the American South.[2][1] Western is haunted by his father’s contributions to the development of the atomic bomb,[2] and tormented by his inability to save his sister Alicia—the protagonist of the novel’s proto-sequel, Stella Maris—from suicide, which happens a decade before The … Continue reading "📚 The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy)"The post 📚 The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy) first appeared on Read

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🤔 The antitrust case against Apple

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2024/03/25

Apple is unexceptional. It’s just another Big Tech monopolist. Rounded corners don’t preserve virtue any better than square ones. Any company that is freed from constraints – of competition, regulation and interoperability – will always enshittify. Apple – being unexceptional – is no exception. https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/ The post 🤔 The antitrust case against Apple first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Someday, we’ll all take comfort in the internet’s...

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2024/03/24

We all deserve dark corners where we stand a chance of finding well-managed communities that can deliver the value that keeps us stuck to our decaying giant platforms. Eventually, the enshittification will chase every user off these platforms – not just kids or sex-workers or political radicals. When that happens, it sure would be nice … Continue reading "📑 Someday, we’ll all take comfort in the internet’s “dark corners”" The post 📑 Someday, we’ll all take comfort in

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📑 AI Literacy

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2024/03/23

This site was developed in association with efforts to respond to UNESCO’s Call for Contributions to the definition of algorithm literacy and data literacy. In addition to links to the submission, it also includes an extensive library. The post 📑 AI Literacy first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton)

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2024/03/23

Boy Swallows Universe is the debut novel from Australian author, Trent Dalton. Set in Brisbane’s violent working class suburban fringe in the 1980’s, the story tells the tale of Eli Bell, a child finding his way in an often chaotic world. Throughout, it explores ideas of family, friendship and fate in a fantastical world. You … Continue reading "📚 Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton)" The post 📚 Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 John Johnston on Feeds

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2024/03/22

John, I really like your idea of including something like Matt Webb’s ‘What is a Feed’ link on my site as reference for wayward visitors who have stumbled off the highway. I like the idea of a newsletter as a feed, rather than another email. The post 💬 John Johnston on Feeds first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Five Differences Between Human and AI Tutors

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2024/03/22

This hope for chatbots takes a serious challenge—meeting the vast and varied needs of students—and trivializes it. The positive framing for this article is that I have just described a product roadmap for AI chatbot tutors, one that they are moving ceaselessly along with every new language model release. The negative framing is that we … Continue reading "📑 Five Differences Between Human and AI Tutors" The post 📑 Five Differences Between Human and AI Tutors first appeared on Read Write

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👍 A simple page builder app

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2024/03/22

There are many ways to make and host a website, and some of the tools even let you do that for free. This guide will show you how to make a website with a simple drag and drop interface (you can still edit the code later!), and host it for free. @stefanbohacek https://simplepagebuilder.app/about The post 👍 A simple page builder app first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Threads has entered the fediverse

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2024/03/22

In this initial phase federated Threads users will not be able to see who liked their posts or any replies from people in the fediverse on Threads. For now, people who want to see replies on their posts on other fediverse servers will have to visit those servers directly. Certain types of posts and content … Continue reading "🤔 Threads has entered the fediverse" The post 🤔 Threads has entered the fediverse first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 The Bezzle (Cory Doctorow)

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2024/03/21

Money-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them all. He’s Silicon Valley’s most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious ways of Fortune 500s, divorcing oligarchs, and international drug cartels alike (and there’s more crossover than you might imagine). Cory Doctorow’s hard-charging, read-in-one-sitting, techno take on the classic PI … Continue reading "📚 The Bezzle (Cory Doctorow)" The post 📚 The

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👍 Bookmarklets for testing your website

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2024/03/20

I ended up participating in: a session on POSSE, a session on NFC tags, a session on writing, and a session on testing your website that was hosted by Ros In that testing session I shared some of the bookmarklets I use regularly. Bookmarklets for testing your website by Jeremy Keith The post 👍 Bookmarklets for testing your website first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Cozy Hypertext for the Dark Forest Web

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2024/03/20

If the web remains valuable at all, it will be because the hyperlink has remained the basic unit of currency. Once you lose the hyperlink, you basically lose everything else. Cozy Hypertext for the Dark Forest Web by Venkatesh Rao The post 🤔 Cozy Hypertext for the Dark Forest Web first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about...

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2024/03/20

There is one very clear parallel between the digital spreadsheet and generative AI: both are computer apps that collapse time. A task that might have taken hours or days can suddenly be completed in seconds. So accept for a moment the premise that the digital spreadsheet has something to teach us about generative AI. What … Continue reading "📑 What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about generative AI" The post 📑 What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about generative AI first

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🤔 Work is a Place

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2024/03/20

Here are some of the distinct types of socializing that I might be missing: Belonging. A sense of being part of a team and some kind of shared objectives / goals / shared values. Support. Being able to have people around you to help you when you get stuck with something specific. Jam partners. People … Continue reading "🤔 Work is a Place" The post 🤔 Work is a Place first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Dark Patterns are now illegal in India

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2024/03/17

The Indian government recently established guidelines to ban dark patterns in India. These guidelines are made to address underhand practices in digital design. These rules aim to protect consumers from misleading tactics encountered online. Canvs Editorial Dark Patterns are now illegal in India — I wonder who would actually follow-up with infringements of ‘dark patterns‘? … Continue reading "🤔 Dark Patterns are now illegal in India" The post 🤔 Dark Patterns are now illegal

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