Who Is America’s Homer?
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from @fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman.
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A combination of pictures of the renovations of the Reflecting Pool taken May 2, May 28, June 7, June 12, June 16 and June 18, 2026, which was painted blue at the directive of U.S. President Trump, ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence, in Washington, D.C. REUTERS
It took us a lot of iterations to find the right pattern for this. Early on we were very naive and we thought that the agent could one shot project updates without much input from users.
That approach ended up creating a bunch of slop, because users disengaged their brain from the process of writing an update.
By switching to a multi turn interactive mode, the agent prompts you and asks you what to emphasize, what's most important, what context is missing, etc.
This simple change elicits much better project updates and ensures that the user has a chance to steer rather than simply being asked to say yes to everything.
A very good example of introducing friction for a net benefit.
@googleanalytics how useful would you say this email formatting is? (the screen width is 1512px)
hire a designer, your customers would be glad you did.
@koenfucius the asymmetry of society
study about tattoos which is not a gender-based subject studies men and considers women only to discuss about men, and not to study women, so women always supporting cast.
A transgender woman has been stabbed to death at the University of Washington and not a single major news outlet is talking about it
There is an ongoing genocide against the trans community in the United States facilitated by the Trump regime
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whist the arabs were inventing the numerals we use every day and publishing landmark algebra treatises, europeans were using un-spaced capital letters—roman numerals—and their most complex math was to calculate the date of easter.
HANTAVIRUS OUTBREAK 🧵
Following the WHO press briefing, I wanted to compile a thread with the key points.
1/ ISOLATION OF PASSENGERS
Concerningly, it seems the WHO are NOT recommending to isolate cruise ship passengers (even high-risk contacts) UNLESS they develop symptoms.
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.