The End of Reading Is Here. Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
I parked in front of this shop while running an errand this afternoon. I feel unworthy of extraordinary banana pudding.
The US House is set to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent
The United States used year-round daylight saving time during World War Two and enacted it again in 1974 to reduce energy use. But it proved deeply unpopular and Congress repealed it later that year.
I’m sure it will be extremely popular this time. ⬅️ sarcasm
The “Eliza effect” refers to our “tendency to treat responsive computer programs as more intelligent than they really are. Very small amounts of interactivity cause us to project our own complexity onto the undeserving object.”
‘Dead Dolly Lane:’ San Diego County’s creepiest roadside attraction. “… the site is a private driveway transformed into an evolving folk-art installation lined with hundreds of dolls, doll heads and broken toy figures attached to fences and posts. What looks at first like a scene from a horror film is actually a long-running folk-art installation created by local artist Toni Fusco.”
While I was signing up for the Masterpiece on PBS newsletter, a dickover interrupted me to prompt me to sign up for their newsletter. I have achieved dickover nirvana.
Why Were Superheroes Popular? Charlie Jane Anders has a few interesting theories.
Inside AT&T’s industrial IoT logistics play. Telcos like to talk about going beyond mere connectivity to find new revenue streams. AT&T isn’t just talking. The operator IoT provider Wiliot are building an industrial IoT supply-chain and asset-tracking business. My latest on Fierce Network.