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If one reads a page a minute, which is a pretty decent rule of thumb, then a 600 page novel takes you ten hours, and reading ten of those takes you 100 hours. That’s reading for ro…

In Blindspotting (2018), a white protagonist is shown as being able to fluently speak an incomprehensibly dense version of AAVE, and it’s revealed later he has no idea what he’s sa…

Supreme Court justice Sotomayor notes that nothing in the government’s reasoning about not returning Garcia is unique to noncitizens. President Trump says he wants to send “homegro…

This concept is worthwhile, but the author is so focused on malice that he neglects real examples. For example, I think many people agree with vegans about animals’ capability for …

For the first example: that’s not censorship? It’s just a bad algorithm. Also, I don’t even know what “left-leaning” means in this context; the top result is from the Australian na…

I've been eagerly awaiting the new Lord Peter Wimsey novel! To avoid burnout, I've been reading them as they enter the public domain instead of reading the whole series all at once…

You're describing The Man Who Was Thursday. Great novel!

Some hens begin crowing like roosters. It's really annoying for backyard chickens, but I have had it happen a few times. That suggests to me that while chicken behavior varies base…

For all of these, an attempt to add more features (patching, additional car controls, video sharing) leads to breaking something that works. It's not so much that new tech is bad; …

I had to write 40 individualized reports this weekend. I fed my notes into GPT, along with a few directions about style, and it spit out competent reports that mostly only required…

I'm typing on a Star LabTop. It Just Works, No problems with drivers, no difficult set up; I unboxed it, turned it on, and had a functional Linux laptop. It's very easy to type on,…

I honestly don't see the point. The Deck is like the Switch: easy to use in both docked and handheld mode. All Valve has to do is to bundle a dock and some new controllers and they…

I think OP's point is that there's one more major use case — gaming — for which Windows has a newly viable competitor. It's not that Linux is going to replace Windows, but that Win…

I just want to note (this is what I studied for my MA) that Krashen is very controversial in the field. Many researchers argue that output is critical to learning, and "interaction…

That's really cool! Thanks for sharing.

Related to this: I had fun the other night trying to explain rhymes to ChatGPT. It could ONLY write rhyming couplets, and even when I explained exactly which sentences in a poem I …

I agree with most of what you said, but as someone who recently switched from a Pixel 6 to a Fairphone 3, I just wanted to speak up for it. At this point, a phone is pretty much a …

One oddity for me (and I haven't played with a lot of AI art, so maybe this is normal): every time I try to describe a person, it generates like four to seven different faces.

It's such an odd coincidence to see this now; I just discovered this series a week ago. I teach elementary school science and math, and I've already used a few excerpts from this (…

Do you expect that the Nazis were uniquely evil? What trends in German society made them 'evil' that we lack? Ordinary people are capable of great evil when they limit their sphere…

It is the job of a public defender to defend his clients. His statement here is absolutely correct. Prosecutors, on the other hand, have to decide what their jobs are.

Yeah, it's sad – Wolfwalkers was a beautiful, innovative film. While you could argue Soul is better, no one even bothered to look into that category much because the winner was ine…

My reaction to this post was similar — is OP sure he actually wants to be a developer? Because honestly, it sounds like a big part of his problem is that he feels like his work lac…

Because that catchphrase started in reaction to Black Lives Matter, and is used largely to signal opposition to the goal of constraining police actions. If people were holding All …

I think the point is that white people are likely to lack this lived experience. If there's a massive difference in opinion about racism in the country between white and black Amer…