March 14, 2018

  • Thought

    “At the International Institute for Integrative Sleep, mice go about their business, waking and dreaming, in row after row of plastic bins. In their brains, as in all of ours, is locked a secret.”

    Why Do We Need to Sleep?

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-mystery-of-sleep-pressure/549473/

March 13, 2018

  • Thought

    This review stands the test of time.

  • Thought

    It’s unclear to me if everything is shocking now or if I wasn’t paying this much attention before. I’m leaning towards, “I didn’t pay this much attention before”.

  • Thought

    A great use of your time on earth is to find something that isn’t on the Internet and put it there for future use by our hive mind.

    Here’s one example:

  • Thought

    “…the street finds its own uses for things”

March 12, 2018

March 11, 2018

  • Thought

    “Social media is not unlike a personal diary. It is a public diary that has a graph of relationships built into it. But there is a continuity of archival practice.”

    Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/

  • Thought

    “Romance is so taken for granted we often don’t register it, the way we rarely register if all the characters in a novel are white.”

    We Need More Books Without Romance – Electric Literature

    https://electricliterature.com/we-need-more-books-without-romance-7ed139b69e33

March 10, 2018

  • Thought

    How DNA Testing Botched My Family’s Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too

    https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-heritage-and-probab-1820932637

  • Thought

    This is probably the best analysis of ethics and morality for #AI I have read. I’d love to see this become the framework for future discussions on this essential topic.

    View at Medium.com

  • Thought

    “I’ve been using a newer definition of marketing in recent years: generating attention you can turn into profitable demand”

    Re-thinking Marketing

    https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/re-thinking-marketing-generating-attention-you-can-turn-into-profitable-demand

  • Thought

    “There is just the continual, lepidoptery-like collection of “moments.” Memories turned into mere mementos. Remembering turns into reminding.”

    Instant Recall

    http://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/

March 9, 2018

  • Thought

    “Even though there is a recognized canon of rock music, there are big differences by birth year in how popular a song is.”

    The Songs That Bind | The New York Times

  • Thought

    How Capicola Became Gabagool

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained

March 8, 2018

March 7, 2018

  • Thought

    I kind of liked some of the songs on that Frank Ocean contractual obligation video-only album that came out right before Blond. I hope they get a proper release at some point.

March 6, 2018

March 5, 2018