estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Ultra-high-resolution image of The Night Watch https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-image-of-the-night-watch
A story about beer is certain to be more popular than a story about barley. https://www.futurity.org/beer-whiskey-barley-3249592/
We're all bozos on this bus.
"The authors recruited more than 2000 conspiracy believers and showed that a brief but personalized conversation with an AI-driven chatbot could durably reduce research subjects’ misinformed beliefs by 20% on average." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads0433
A website dedicated to Japanese Hotel Luggage Labels http://www.hotel-label.com/japanese_labels.html
The next book in my book club is Little Women. I must have read it a dozen times, starting when I was 10 or 12. I love the story, though for different reasons every time.
It's also an excuse to watch the movies again. Just scanning the older adaptations makes me appreciate the latest one from Greta Gerwig and its wickedly entertaining feminism. (Its major flaw is that the Professor is entirely too young.)
Days after a CNN report about racist and sexual comments posted on a pornography forum, all but a few of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign team quit their jobs on Sunday.
https://www.wunc.org/politics/2024-09-22/mark-robinson-campaign-staff-quit-cnn-report
"The Utrecht University Botanic Gardens have a unique archive of seed lists: records depicting and describing plants that have grown in the garden at a set point in time. Seed lists are offered for exchange between botanic gardens worldwide, and Utrecht’s archive dates back to 1837. It consists of more than twenty thousand seed lists from hundreds of different botanic gardens – each showcasing hundreds of entries."
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/historical-seed-lists-teach-researchers-about-plant-collections-of-the-past
Let It Airbnb... rooms to rent at early Beatles venue
I'm just here for the headline, honestly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewlyyjnp1yo
"The study examined 2,060 House, Senate and presidential campaigns from the 2020 United States election cycle, representing the first large-scale analysis of the privacy practices of political campaign websites. Those campaigns, the study revealed, often retained extensive private data for an unspecified amount of time, generally provided incomplete or no privacy disclosures and were likely to share data with other campaigns or sell them post-election." (from February) https://news.wm.edu/2024/02/07/your-personal-data-is-political-wm-computer-scientists-find-gaps-in-the-privacy-practices-of-campaign-websites/
Smell this: Olfactory phones. https://www.fastcompany.com/91191596/smell-phones-scents
Overheard elsewhere: Your password must contain 10-18 characters, each with backstories.
How To Talk Minnesotan
I think I first heard about this from someone on the TAPCIS forum on CompuServe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSzwoJr4-0
“You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS and thought, ‘This is the future,’” Mulaney said.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/
I rather like this format: Answer people’s actual questions. https://www.wired.com/story/kamala-harris-autocomplete-interview/
ChatGPT on a TI-84 calculator. Severe maker porn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bicjxl4EcJg
The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming Services
"I have found that, after more than a decade under the influence, it has begun to reshape my relationship with music. I’m addicted to a relationship that I know is very bad for me."
It's an interesting essay, though I think it goes on for too long. https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-woes-of-being-addicted-to-streaming-services/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017