What I enjoy about reading (notes, note-taking) is that it allows you to go as deep as your heart desires (or can take it) without getting all sorcerory pretentious—it is just text
The neighborhood I grew up in (residential blocks) was recently parking-zoned instantly removing about third of the cars. It restored the ambiance to pre 2020…
@fstflofscholars I recommend reading it in a group; the reading pace matters as there is so much going on. We are about to finish the first book, so there is still time to join us. Genese says that the second book is even better!
Here is our schedule for our year-long reading of The Man Without Qualities. We will meet twice a month, with January and August off. The text is the 2-volume Vintage (used to be Knopf) edition translated by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins. Join us!
long-term the only way to make money in sentiment based markets is to follow, you know, that guy who picks up on these things . . . aka why I supported IdeaMarket
Just went through my yearly budget and ended up canceling a TON of subscriptions.
A couple hundred dollars a month can make a HUGE difference in the long run. Track your money folks!
It always amazes me how invisible I am when visiting my hometown. some places treat me like I was an actor or a politician or something but in other places chirps
@eris_nerung I firmly hold that most of the men and gals who delight in your online presence would simply extend this irl into deference to charm. Simple as
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (@techassimilate / Tom's Hardware)
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@flex_nihilo Sonnet is better at holding conversation but will literally make a fully functional website-quality docx template in node.js for what could’ve been a simple one page markdown summary. the instance simply deemed it contextually urgent
OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI)
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It is best practice to grant a woman the allure of being uncatchable in the sense that her mystique remains unattainable.
The stream of its aftermaths then sits in suitor’s ballpark, to deal with, which is the nature of such bargain. I think that Vertigo is about that.