I was surprised that photos of the 90% eclipsed sun still show a circle, but the flairs show the eclipse #photo #eclipse

“Creation and size of advice subreddits” reagle.org/joseph/pelican…… #reddit #advice #history #python

My low-star ratings are no longer visible on: “How fake are Temu reviews?” reagle.org/joseph/pelican… #review #fake

a useful tool that saves a complete web page as a single HTML file with all resources converted into data URLs: “⬛️ CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file” github.com/Y2Z/monolith #web #html #sys

suggests rules including an honest and precise dating profile to 'burn' the haystack of unsuitable matches, not browsing profiles, only engaging with people who send a substantive first message demonstrating they…: “Quick start guide” burnedhaystackdating.com/quick-start-gu… #geek #relationships

Lessig 🇺🇦 FYI: the Harvard report has been made public arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…

🎉 CC applauds the release of digital reproductions of 88K+ artworks by The J. Paul Getty Museum with CC’s Public Domain Dedication Tool CC0.

🖼️ Read why we’re excited and how you too could support a thriving public domain of cultural heritage 👇 loom.ly/vAo1_Yo

“Center for advancing teaching and learning through research” learning.northeastern.edu/explore/ai-gal… #teaching #ai

useful guidelines for those of us (everyone) who creates documents including: audience, minimal formatting, explicitness (conclusion, results, wayfinding), and naming: “Make better documents” anildash.com/2024/03/10/mak… #doc

tells of Lasse Stolley, 17-year-old digital nomad living on German trains: “I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train -- I've travelled 310,000 miles so far” metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/spe… #lifehack

people joke about Amazon AI review summary about a planter: '...They also like that it has shattered to bits and is a waste of money': “this AI-generated summary of the amazon reviews of a hanging planter is cracking me up” threads.net/@karenswallowp… #ai #review #bemused

“Wikipedia no longer considers CNET a 'generally reliable' source after AI scandal” futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet… #wikipedia #ai

I had not considered that a documentary about the capture and arrest of a crazed pet/human killer would inspire another to do the same. Ghastly.

“Could Wikipedia sue Neri Oxman?” reagle.org/joseph/pelican… #legal #copyright #wikipedia

prompted by a debate over the meaning of 'preppy', worries that 'aesthetics' are depriving people of genuine engagement with subcultures: “Teen subcultures are fading. Pity the poor kids.” nytimes.com/2024/02/21/mag… #pop

reports on geeky tech-types putting bounties on friends who introduce them to a romantic partner: “Wanted: True love. Reward: $100,000.” nytimes.com/2024/02/13/bus… #geek #relationship

reports on geeky tech-types who are using lengthy Google Docs instead of dating app profiles: “Tired of dating Apps, some turn to ‘Date-Me Docs’” nytimes.com/2023/08/02/sty… #geek #relationship

“What to know about the Supreme Court arguments on social media laws” nytimes.com/2024/02/25/tec… #speech

Bizarre. He is still claiming that lifting chunks of prose from #Wikipedia is not #plagiarism .

Dear Sander van der Linden: I was not previously aware of your debate w/ Nate Silver but he is on solid ground with his critique of your arguments + the #misinfo field generally — Paul D. Thacker summarizes the debate in detail here:
open.substack.com/pub/disinforma…

Silver's arguments echo the…