Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use. By Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge. I don’t recognize myself in any of these categories.
Come study physics. Totally a real science and not magic. www.tumblr.com/dduane/77…
How It Actually Feels To Live With Face Blindness
“Oh my God, heyyy”
Four words I dread hearing, delivered this time at a train station. I spin around. There’s a girl in front of me: similar age, dark hair, face that could be described as “vaguely familiar”. Or maybe she just looks like someone I should be friends with.
“How are you doing?” She says that last part as if she’s dying to know.
“Oh heyyy,” I respond in the same tone. “Yeah, great thanks, you?”
“Really well. I just got the keys to my new art studio, so that’s quite exciting.” I make a mental note of “art studio”. She makes art. My first contextual clue.
“It’s so important to have your own space,” I reply. “I would actually love to have my own office one day.” If I keep talking, I think, she’ll never know. She’ll never know that I have no idea who she is.
I have encounters just like this on a regular basis. Last week I was at a professional conference and had several encounters like this every day. Fortunately, people at conferences wear name-badges.
A test to determine if you have prosopagnosia, or trouble recognizing faces. If you score 65 or higher, there’s a good chance you have it. I scored 80. Go, me! www.troublewithfaces.org/test-your…
A brief history of the camera. mymodernmet.com/who-inven…
The Dodo Is Extinct Because of Humans. Now We Can Learn From It. nytimes.com
Their multifamily compound seemed like a dream. But it came at an ugly price: A group of young families created a praised co-living community in San Francisco by evicting long-term low-income, elderly and disabled residents.
The Democrats’ pathetic plan to regain power: Appear on sports podcasts. nytimes.com
Your Local Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina on the measles outbreak and how RFK and other authorities are spreading dangerous misinformation. Also: Hantavirus, Medicaid popularity and opiod and HPV deaths decline. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
In ‘Dark Winds,’ things are about to get even darker: Zahn McClarnon, who stars as Joe Leaphorn, on the new season. nytimes.com