Annie Cole

education | language | my agora
"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." - Rumi

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Two kinds of editor:

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“It’s sobering to consider how much of one’s life, from its broadest contours to its smallest details, can be changed by chance,” Joshua Rothman writes. https://t.co/KUBowla4Ng

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

“The history of punctuation is the history of humanity,” argues Florence Hazrat in a rollicking new book. Dots and dashes have shaped religious texts, legal documents and literature https://t.co/3mgJPpS4SF

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"'Erupcja' is all about how coincidences are never random or, at least, they cease to be random once people make meaning from them."

Polina Peremitina reviews Pete Ohs’ "Erupcja": https://t.co/WhfB83MMuV

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

✒️ From ancient scripts to avant-garde typography, the Letterform Archive collection at the Internet Archive preserves the art and history of letterforms.

Browse thousands of digitized artifacts from typography, graphic design, calligraphy, and the letter arts.👇
https://t.co/CPSTW6KnuQ

[Christine Emba @ChristineEmba]

new piece in the Times today, about friendship as a luxury good.

"We tend to talk about the loneliness crisis in terms of gender, but class, as derived from educational status, is the factor too touchy — or too invisible — to acknowledge." https://t.co/yipFWyR6y5

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Be moved the old-fashioned way. https://t.co/YJkXXx9Mvu

[Institute of Art and Ideas @IAI_TV]

The number of people accessing psychotherapy is on the rise. | https://t.co/GH2SSvqFzE

While most therapies focus on emotional well-being, Katerina Apostolides writes that for many philosophical counselling might be a better option.

[Kyle Arking 🟧 (he/him) @ArkingKyle]

Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes was truly unforgettable in Nashville. Watched it every week. I used to listen to the soundtracks and her singing those songs in music stores as a kid. Then, I bought the soundtracks and still listen to them today. ❤️💔

[William Sharp 🇺🇦 @drwilliamsharp]

A psychoanalyst friend of mine always said, “hear me now, believe me later” thrilled to start this book today!

Opinion | Is Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis due for a comeback? https://t.co/A1afhhzkBt via @BostonGlobe

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

Your brain was calibrated for 200,000 years to treat fluent conversation as proof of a real mind.
Then LLMs arrived — and hijacked that ancient system.
New paper: “The Embodied Hijack” explains why we keep attributing intention, understanding, and presence to AI… even when we know better.
This isn’t simple anthropomorphism. It’s a Pleistocene brain meeting a disembodied intelligence for the first time.
🔗 https://t.co/taeJumGUSY
#EmbodiedHijack #AI #Psychology #NeuroAI #NeuroTwitter #PsychTwitter #ActiveInference #EmbodiedCognition #LLMs
#EmbodiedHijack #Anthropomorphism #CognitiveScience

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is a great point from @stevenbjohnson about one quality of human writing that AI can’t replicate. There’s a deeper connection to a work—an email, an article, a book—when you know the person on the other end took the time to write it themselves. And a different level of trust, too.

Watch my full discussion with Steven here: https://t.co/jLumRfHIru

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[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

It's almost time to join us over on YouTube to watch our livestream of the Perseids meteor shower! Before you zoom over there, check out these "fast facts" about the Perseids.

Then, stream our watch party >> https://t.co/AouHNtnaAD

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

If you are not on the path of totality today, let this Annie Dillard classic conjure up for you the breathtaking surreality of an eclipse – one of the most gorgeous things ever written about anything: https://t.co/XkJnJ6IKUh

[Andrew Careaga @andrewcareaga]

“Short story writers, in other words, are exactly what artists are supposed to be: Clear-eyed, realistic, fiercely independent, and at peace with their place at the margins of a culture that only occasionally, unpredictably, looks their way.” https://t.co/NQs9zRYhH8

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

In the 1970s, a young Anthony Bourdain found himself in the small coastal town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. It’s where he spent four summers, getting his start in the culinary world as a dishwasher in a local restaurant and graduating to line cook. https://t.co/Cp75Shuh0H

[Neil Patel @neilpatel]

Claude is going to watermark its text generation to comply with EU laws.

Just wait, the rest will follow.

And as they do it, marketers who rely on AI content won’t do as well.

Already AI content doesn’t perform too well… and this will just make matters worse.

If you are ramping up your AI generated content, you may want to think again.

The watermark just makes it easier for platforms to ignore the content.

[Tyler Coates @tylercoates]

I interviewed one of the very best https://t.co/k74ya0gKiw

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Great piece by @chiggi 'Why is poetry booming? It’s the only language for times of violence and chaos.' Her great book, Ukrainian Lessons, is out next month. And thank you for mentioning mine: I Brought the War With Me is out in paperback in October. https://t.co/pWkSeQGo9M