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Kindle made it easy to report errors in ebooks, but I always found myself wondering if the errors I was flagging were even being looked at.

Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail. https…

You can trade your time for goods, but others might trade money for time. Something to think about maybe. Free Shakespeare in the Park is a New York City civic tradition dating bac…

Lots of people were confused about the purpose or utility of 'micro-blogging.' It only really clicked for people once you had minor celebrities using the platform to crowd-source i…

Consider the plight of the dentists and doctors: >There were some 90 dentists and around 30 doctors operating in the City, for the most part trained in China but unable to operate …

>"people living in squalor is their right!" For many, a big part of the appeal was the low costs of living. Surely choosing relative squalor with low prices should be an option?

>Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content A related phenomenon is not being able to hear the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps. I find the notion astonishing,…

As someone who has always been a collector, I found this particular article very interesting: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/redressing-the-balance-...

Plenty of reasonable scientists support a political party which explicitly denies the existence of biological differences between groups of humans. In the final analysis, it seems …

I was asking ChatGPT about a "squiggled s" yesterday. It thought I meant ß, but the character I was actually interested in was §. Context was obscure keyboard layouts.

I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.

The regurgitated content is often in the form of comments in popular threads.

Reminds me of this: >Jeff Bezos(01:34:00) We were going over a weekly business review and a set of documents, and I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree…

Not necessarily just a singular weird animal either. Sometimes a breeding pair was given. Take this interesting excerpt about Plato's stepbrother: By 413, Demos had inherited his f…

>lots of people suffered As someone surrounded by immigrants using ChatGPT to navigate new environs they barely understand, I don't connect at all to these claims that AI is a canc…

Sometimes it seems like problem-solving itself is being problematized as if solving problems wasn't an obvious good.

>should we really be surprised that unpaid labor is hard to find? Music is mostly unpaid labor and there's no shortage of musicians.

>If you don't need that much e.g. because you have the luck of having your parents support, don't work the full job then. Easy. Less hours worked, more time to study. What if you a…

An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the crimin…

In many places, clotheslines are illegal.

America is really bad for this sort of thing though? One example that stands out in my mind: The shower is outside on the back patio. The shower is fitted with hot water from the c…

My favorite Winamp shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+R to randomize the playlist. I wish every application with a playlist could do this.

>There are no economic incentives to colonize Mars. Perhaps, but much has been said about the vast fortunes asteroid mining could unlock.

Many did not want to leave, for want of having better options. The dentists were especially attached to the place. >Medical and dental care were no problem at all: many of the resi…

To make a bold analogy, claiming that squatters should be allowed to seize unoccupied buildings is like claiming that hackers should be allowed to seize inactive servers.