“What My Mornings Are Like in Prison” (Tony Triplett / Prison Journalism Project)
An interesting discussion about Black Hebrew Israelites. I barely know anything about this group. According to one comment, they are both anti-Black and anti-Semitic.
NYC is so big that when some small disaster happens here we mostly hear about it from relatives that live out of state and see it on tv and then text us assuming we were nearby. Like no mom I didn’t get squished by the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man I was in a different borough
We live in the world of paywalled content, unilateral contract modification, micro transactions, serialised content, upsells, and the list goes on and on and on. Everyone is trying to find a way to extract money in one way or another, and that is something I find personally draining and soul-crushing.
I follow conversations among professional educators who all report the same phenomenon, which is that their students use ChatGPT for everything, and in consequence learn nothing. We may end up with at least one generation of people who are like the Eloi in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, in that they are mental weaklings utterly dependent on technologies that they don’t understand and that they could never rebuild from scratch were they to break down.
— Neal Stephenson, as quoted on simonwillison.net
Classic 1960s Volkswagen ads. (Nick Sherman / Fonts in Use) — Thanks, Dave!
Rep. Darrell Issa’s mail-ballot lawsuit may be thrown out of San Diego federal court (Ken Stone / Times of San Diego) — Issa is arguing that if all the votes are counted, Republicans lose and that’s just not fair. Gotta admire the chutzpah on this guy.
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive. Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful. (Nicole Kobie / Wired)
Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook (Jeff Horowitz and Angel Au-Yeung / WSJ) — “Battles?” Facebook seems to be doing the minimum to appear that it’s fighting fraud, while splitting the profits with the crooks.
How Chronic Disease Became the Biggest Scourge in American Health Americans live shorter and sicker lives than people in other high-income countries. (Brianna Abbott / WSJ) —