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💬 The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting

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2025/01/20

So acknowledging the definite limits of commenting to save the world, I’m still making a commitment in 2025 to spend a lot more time commenting on other folks work than I have in a long time. I may be overthinking this, but I have gotten the sense that folks might be planning a return to … Continue reading "💬 The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting" The post 💬 The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎵 Triple J Hottest 100 of 2024

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2025/01/19

Each year, you, along with hundreds and thousands of people from all around the world, choose the songs that have soundtracked your life, leading to one hell of a listening party in January. It’s a countdown curated by you, for you! Source: Hottest 100 2024 – triple j by @triplej I must be honest, I … Continue reading "🎵 Triple J Hottest 100 of 2024" The post 🎵 Triple J Hottest 100 of 2024 first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it

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2025/01/14

Who wants to have to speak the language of search engines to find what you need? Who wants to navigate links when you can have straight answers? And maybe: Who wants to have to learn when you can just know? Source: AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it by Mat Honan … Continue reading "🤔 AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it" The post 🤔 AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 The Exploding Whale

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2025/01/14

The original story of the exploding whale first appeared on KATU Channel 2 Portland, OR in November 1970. The story was reported by Paul Linnman with cameraman Doug Brazil who captured the event on 16mm film, the common format for TV news coverage in those days. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary in 2020, the … Continue reading "📑 The Exploding Whale" The post 📑 The Exploding Whale first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤣 Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media...

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2025/01/14

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – who died of a drug overdose in his Californian home today – says it is not Facebook’s role to be the arbiter of truth for everything people post online. Source: The Shovel The post 🤣 Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts — The Shovel first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Dark Patterns Detective

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2025/01/10

I created this interactive experience to explore the intersection of design ethics and human psychology, helping us all make more informed choices while browsing the web. Source: Dark Patterns Detective A useful resource for walking through different dark patterns to add to my work as a part of the CSER MOOC. The post 📑 Dark Patterns Detective first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and...

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2025/01/10

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still … Continue reading "📑 Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500" The post 📑

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💬 FBT on Hokums and Heretics

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2025/01/10

Anyway, if you’re looking for something to do instead of playing with AI, try embodying a squirrel and start planting seeds for a better future. You can even forget where you plant things, the forest will grow regardless. Help a neighbour, plant a tree, do something kind. The AI isn’t going to spread kindness, it … Continue reading "💬 FBT on Hokums and Heretics" The post 💬 FBT on Hokums and Heretics first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 Sweet Dreams – The Story of the New Romantics...

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2025/01/07

Sweet Dreams – The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones covers the period between 1975 to 1985, exploring the music that influenced the New Romantics and those caught up in the movement. I wrote a longer response here. Marginalia Introduction: La Vie en Rose What happened between 1975 and 1985 – in terms … Continue reading "📚 Sweet Dreams – The Story of the New Romantics (Dylan Jones)" The post 📚 Sweet Dreams – The Story of the New Romantics (Dylan Jones) first appeared on

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🤔 For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website

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2025/01/07

To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before. If you look at my work on Kotaku, there’s so many garbage ads on the screen you can barely see the words. Waypoint and … Continue reading "🤔 For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website" The post 🤔 For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 How to Really Read Blogs

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2024/08/03

A blog isn’t a publication. It’s a person @loosewire https://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/04/how_to_really_r.html ᔥ “Wouter Groeneveld,” in When Is a Site Considered a Blog? | Brain Baking (08/03/2024 12:00:17)The post 🤔 How to Really Read Blogs first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Red Hand Files ISSUE #295

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2024/08/03

Philosopher, neuroscientist and psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says we require three things to attain a meaningful life. The first is feeling part of a wider community – family, friends, and society in general. Second is an understanding of nature and a connection to the natural order of things, which McGilchrist feels we have largely lost. Finally, … Continue reading "🤔 Red Hand Files ISSUE #295" The post 🤔 Red Hand Files ISSUE #295 first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 Clive Thompson on Everybody Hurts

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2024/08/03

Clive, at fear of oversharing, I thought I would share my funny ‘Everybody Hurts’ experience. For music at school, every class had to sing a song together. Mr. F chose Bryan Adam’s ‘Everything I Do I Do It For You’. I cannot remember it was voted on, probably was. Anyway, my mother was mortified why … Continue reading "💬 Clive Thompson on Everybody Hurts" The post 💬 Clive Thompson on Everybody Hurts first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Four Tet on making music

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2024/08/03

Austin Kleon shares his key take-away from the TapeNotes podcast episode in which Kieran Hebden dives into several tracks from Three+. You’ve got to love records so much, he says, that you want to make something that can sit on a shelf alongside the records you love. It’s a lesson that is true for all … Continue reading "📑 Four Tet on making music" The post 📑 Four Tet on making music first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 Motivation over Talent

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2024/08/03

Ryan, I like your comment about motivation over talent: Talent exists, sure. Some people are naturals. But we overestimate its impact. I think much of what we see as talent is actually motivation. @schnarfed https://snarfed.org/2024-07-31_53442 It reminded me of a post from Dave Cormier from a few years ago about ‘care’ being learning’s first principle. … Continue reading "💬 Motivation over Talent" The post 💬 Motivation over Talent first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 Poetry – A Very Short Introduction (Bernard...

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2024/07/28

Discusses what poetry is, and what it is for, with examples from both contemporary and ancient poets Examines the contemporary debates surrounding the value and universality of poetry. From distinguished modern poet and literary critic, Bernard O’Donoghue. Part of the Very Short Introductions series – over nine million copies sold worldwide Source: Poetry – A … Continue reading "📚 Poetry – A Very Short Introduction (Bernard O’Donoghue)"The post 📚 Poetry – A

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📚 Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction

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2024/07/25

Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction Explores the origins, evolution, and core ideas of neoliberalism Discusses the impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the related European Sovereign Debt Crisis on neoliberal ideals and systems Considers the global variations of neoliberalism Part of the Very Short Introductions series – over ten million copies sold worldwide … Continue reading "📚 Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" The post 📚 Neoliberalism: A Very Short

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👍 Learning Patterns

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2024/07/20

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📑 The Far Invisible

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2024/07/18

Alan Jacobs explores Thomas Pynchon’s work from a theological perspective. It was a reminder of how deep and complex Pynchon can be and made me wonder if I have really “let down my shields or opened the valve” to really let him in? Pynchon’s novels generally postulate other levels of reality…. Pynchon suggests that such … Continue reading "📑 The Far Invisible" The post 📑 The Far Invisible first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 How do we build the future with AI?

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2024/07/18

I don’t think the Paypal Mafia building for themselves can independently launch us into the future we want. I think they can rapidly saturate any market opened by a new tech platform. As a result, first-generation and even second-generation product ideas are done to death almost as soon as the platform becomes available. The surest, and … Continue reading "📑 How do we build the future with AI?" The post 📑 How do we build the future with AI? first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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