A meeting on Zoom sounds like a relief until I remember I hate it. Texting keeps me in touch with friends so swiftly and constantly, I forget how much I miss them. (AUDIO 8m) commonreader.wustl.edu/friction/
We all need something different to thrive--a setting, an atmosphere, a connection.... What is it for you? (AUDIO 8m) commonreader.wustl.edu/what-we-need...
"It might take a certain amount of resistance to hold on to the idea these things are worth doing and protecting if we value them. Otherwise, it’s a capitulation. Pessimism is a luxury in a way." www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...
What a relief. The illegal white-cowboy video-game war has created an even more repressive regime! So the world will be able to have the upheaval again very soon!
When bits of cultural wisdom are filtered to us through AI, how do we respond? I'm struggling to find a new way. (AUDIO 7m) commonreader.wustl.edu/ai-slop-or-a...
The masochism of it! Watch, on a screen, your nightmares acted out? Yet the horror genre is growing as fast as a hatched alien baby. Political commentary? (AUDIO 7m) commonreader.wustl.edu/horror-films/
Strongman. Strong man. How did we get them confused? commonreader.wustl.edu/the-tyrrany-...
Even if you were always absentminded, the lapses start to feel ominous.... (AUDIO 6m) commonreader.wustl.edu/memory-lapses/
Black and White aren't even the right colors. Was the opposition deliberate? (AUDIO 7m) commonreader.wustl.edu/whiteness/
are we (I especially mean me) letting AI explain things, explain us, to death? (AUDIO 7m) commonreader.wustl.edu/deep-questio...
Why is keeping a real Sabbath so hard? (AUDIO 10m) commonreader.wustl.edu/tech-and-the...
It makes my insides squeamy to think that Jeffrey Epstein was was given a translation of Clarice Lispector by Noam Chomsky’s wife--but then I laugh, knowing what Clarice would have thought of her new reader. commonreader.wustl.edu/clarice-lisp...
Ritalin doesn't hit the attention centers after all--and it might help prevent dementia--and ADHD is a continuum for all of us--but sometimes it's misdiagnosed sleep-deprivation... One big study can reveal a lot. (AUDIO 8m) commonreader.wustl.edu/adhd-and-rit...
Absolutely right. I mean, what does a Pride flag have to do with Stonewall, anyway??????????!
Linsey Davis and John Krull on journalism’s challenges (AUDIO 9m) commonreader.wustl.edu/journalism-a...
Are we all gambling because life is so uncertain now, it’s fun to think you at least have a hunch?
Thoughts, please! How is all this striking you? (AUDIO 7m) commonreader.wustl.edu/we-have-just...
Ha! the last redoubt of the human! "I can recognize what would make a human laugh, and I can model the structure of humor very well—timing, incongruity, social violation, release—but there is no limbic system here to get jolted, no breath to hitch...." lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/january-29...
AI bots can invent a religion and shitpost about us--you're telling me they still can't crack the human verification codes on websites???
Looks like more than one person involved in the murders of Pretti and Good were the "best trained" that DHS has to offer. And at least two are actual gun trainers themselves.
So when someone says DHS needs "better training", don't debate. Just slap them. More training just means more lethal.
Why is it so hard to live in ways that do not poison us?! (AUDIO 10m) commonreader.wustl.edu/healthy-nont...
Truman Capote, Perry Smith, and Philip Seymour Hoffman all died too soon —but for sharply different reasons.
Blood is rarely cold.
commonreader.wustl.edu/three-on-a-m...
Bots are posting on their own social network? At no one’s bidding? Your take please. I feel a little dizzy. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
How gamification zings us away from what we cared about in the first place. (AUDIO 9m) commonreader.wustl.edu/gamification/
Our government will now distort our faces, erasing poised dignity with AI, and use the images to denigrate us. No apology. "The memes will continue." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Tina Smith in NYT: “Despite the killings of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti, (Minnesotans) keep coming out…to document the brutality of masked agents wreaking havoc in their neighborhoods. Think about the courage they’ve shown. And then look within to see if you can find some courage of your own.”
