In search of fresh material to mine, AI companies are hiring poets, novelists, playwrights, writers, and PhDs
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-developers-fiction-poetry-scale-ai-appen/
The rise of the synths https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/musicians-union-outlaw-synthesisers/
Even my mom could have set up this folding camping table and bench set. In the rain. So yeah, recommended. https://amzn.to/3Q1t1f7
A complex production chain can turn choosing which coffee to buy into a complicated decision for consumers. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/buzzwords-ethical-coffee/
"At this company, we are family..." https://pboyd.io/posts/at-company-we-are-family
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday; it awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/
I'm not super-fond of lamb. I think I had mutton a few times in my youth, but I don't think I liked it.
https://modernfarmer.com/2023/09/digging-in-mutton/
Science fiction recommended by scientists. Interesting books, but I wish they'd asked more scientists!
https://fivebooks.com/category/fiction/science-fiction/science-fiction-recommended-by-scientists/
Candidates who don’t offer to take their empty cups back to the kitchen at the end of their interview are unlikely to get a job offer.
It's like every interview situation where someone has what they’re sure is a great way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Is it possible to have a title that's more click-bait for me than this?
Packed with purpose: Japanese home designed for cats and compact living
https://newatlas.com/architecture/cat-tree-house-tan-yamanouchi-architects/
"While people may think they like the idea of having tens of thousands of options a click away, in practice, they’re only interested in watching a handful of them, and they’re not especially picky about what that handful contains." https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/netflix-dvd-rental-service-ending-movies-queue.html
Now THIS is my kind of blog post: geekery about Virginia Woolf's desk. https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2023/09/22/woolfs-new-home/
If you need to know how far Twitter has fallen, an asteroid sample collected by NASA touched down on Earth this morning and I never saw #OSIRISREx (or any variation) trending, not once.
"Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates." https://jenson.org/text/
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.