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Sorry, I edited out some context there. What I meant is that _at school_ there's less literature on offer; instead, kids are burdened with reading "instructional texts" that are as…

I think the content of many books is much cooler than the crap on my timelines. There’s just higher entropy (or activation energy?) to get the book picked up and opened vs the sero…

FWIW my son went through the same sort of thing during emerging literacy and it drove me kind of crazy. He started with simple texts, then started coming home with “graphic novels”…

This is a result of living in homes where parents neither read to children nor model reading for pleasure. Thanks to the various waves of “education reform”, there is less literatu…

I’ve been using Little Snitch on my Mac for years now because I want to be aware of (and be able to turn off) the connections programs make. Probably the weirdest one I’ve caught w…

Curious, In the repo you mention > Several rules come from 2025-2026 industry research on agentic coding failure modes What are some of the papers you read?

Depends if you want a FIFA Peace Prize or not.

I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.

Somehow its target user group includes my father, who is 90 years old. As far as I can recall, we got him using Firefox years ago and he became a committed user. I wish more browse…

I would commit to using Threads every day for the rest of my life if that meant the US had a sane health care system.

The authoritarian creep has certainly been facilitated by developing a culture of intellectual apathy.

There's really interesting research about children/people learning to read without formal instruction; as John Taylor Gatto points out in Dumbing Us Down, back when Thomas Paine wa…

We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk.

Yeah, I have found it most comfortable to use two keys on each thumb cluster. Space, Enter, Layer 1, Layer 2. I also like how ZSA's thumb cluster it moved out (Keyboardio really di…

Others can make more informed recommendations; to the best of my knowledge it's going to depend on your keyboard and what firmware it runs. (There are some os-level heatmappers you…

Reading reviews of this type of keyboard is really interesting to me because their use is such a subjective experience. I have found that the glove80 has far and away the most comf…

Yeah I stopped after that and still find myself thinking about it from time to time...if the book gets happier from there, I'll pick it up again.

I put down a deposit for one. An EV that's designed to be user-serviceable, has modular upgrades, and isn't full of surveillance technology? This checks all the boxes for me. Can't…

For wide cleats, check out Mizuno. I get mine on eBay from sellers in Japan. I tried literally every other wide cleat I could find in the US and nothing fit as well as Mizunos. The…

Losing the museum was a real heartbreaker. To me it was a really special place because it captured that special feeling of getting access to hardware that isn't widely available an…

Hi, Chip, what a neat device! I ordered one to use secretly. My dad’s 90 and was a working musician since he was 15 or so. He’s always wanted to make recordings of his playing but …

If you haven’t read him already, I bet you’d like Saki.

I should probably post on MobileRead with this question instead, but I wondered if you might have insight into this issue I've been having with my Kobo. I've noticed that when I re…

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I love living in the land of opportunity to accrue debt. Student debt, medical debt, it's all Freedom Debt™ to me!