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Seth Godin —

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Steinbeck points out that the stars shine in the sky, regardless of the drama here on Earth.

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Perspective fools us into believing that our point of view is primary, but it’s not difficult to imagine a more distant (or closer) one that would change everything.

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The service at table 7 might not matter much to the waiter, but it matters a great deal to the elderly couple celebrating a positive medical diagnosis. The greeting you offer to a stranger might seem trivial to you, but it could change the arc of that stranger’s day. And the drama that consumes us in this moment might be forgotten in...

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Shawn Blanc -

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Life is almost entirely a series of small, seemingly-inconsequential choices and moments.

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All the little things that you do (and don’t do) are what paint the picture of your life.

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If you want a different life, make a small change to one thing and stick with it.

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Then change something else.

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Then something else.

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The little things, over time, add up big.

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Seth Godin —

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Steinbeck points out that the stars shine in the sky, regardless of the drama here on Earth.

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Perspective fools us into believing that our point of view is primary, but it’s not difficult to imagine a more distant (or closer) one that would change everything.

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The service at table 7 might not matter much to the waiter, but it matters a great deal to the elderly couple celebrating a positive medical diagnosis. The greeting you offer to a stranger might seem trivial to you, but it could change the arc of that stranger’s day. And the drama that consumes us in this moment might be forgotten in...

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Spent the weekend adding mulch to the beds in the back. It looks great.

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Every time I do it, it makes me want to pull up all the rocks from our front and replace them with mulch. Pulling the rock would not be hard, just time-consuming, and I’d need a place to put the rock. Basically, we have rock on both...

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Om Malik with a great blog post exploring Anthropic’s naming for Mythos and Project Glasswing:

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Project Glasswing is the same move. The name suggests something fragile and transparent, a butterfly with see-through wings. The project is opaque. Only the trusted can see it. The name performs openness so the structure does not have to.

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I actually think Anthropic and Claude are going to win the AI Wars. On an aesthetic level, I’m a fan of their naming convention quite a bit. Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Mythos, Fable. Quite lovely.

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Josh Marshall –

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In a hearing today about the president’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House and plans to build a vast ballroom, a judge asked if the president could also bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and be subject to no legal challenge. The DOJ lawyer, Yaakov Roth, said that yes, President Trump could decide tomorrow to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and no one could stop him.

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It was a good question from DC Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett since it brings the arguments and their implications clearly into the open. Reframe the question and the absurdity of this proposition becomes...

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Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:

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Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.

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Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime.

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This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this administration has decided don’t deserve dignity.

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Warren Ellis —

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All year I’ve been reading about taste. Someone somewhere identified that one of the things AI can’t do is “taste.” Now it seems a certain part of the world can’t stop talking about taste, and much of it is trying to define taste, presumably to boil it down into a useful prompt.

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This is a bit of a shift from the prevailing notion of “you’re allowed to like stuff,” which turned into “can’t we just let people enjoy things,” which quickly warped into “you have to like everything or you are a monster.” Especially if lots of other people seem to like it, which is one reason why the...

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Anthropic submits draft to go public:

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Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of our common stock. This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review. The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors.

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Something I learned over the weekend: Anthropic’s run-rate projections count token usage, not just subscriptions. Their revenue is probably not as stable as a normal SaaS company.

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I listen to a lot of YouTube at work. The moment I clicked through to the Caught In Joy YouTube channel, I knew I was going to love it. The description:

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Over 80 albums designed to focus, flow and reset. Instrumental electronic music for you brain to wander.

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And from the website:

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Caught In Joy (Karol Pokojowczyk) is a multi-instrumentalist based in Florida, passionately dedicated to live composing, hardware synthesizers, and tape recording - a completely independent music project. I strive to create four albums and visual performances every month, entirely by myself.

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I started my professional life as...

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This Reddit thread asks what a person can learn in 10 minutes that will be useful for life, and the top-voted answer is using your hand span, thumb to pinky, as a built-in measuring tool. Mine is 7 inches, which I will never forget now.

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The other favorites in the thread are worth sharing for your...

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Alan Jacobs -

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The most important point about rising AI use in the arts is simply this: Millions of people desperately want affirmation. They don’t want to go to the trouble of writing or painting or drawing or making music — or maybe they are afraid that their own work won’t be good enough — but they want people to believe that they have made art. We should be thinking seriously about the intensity of the human need to be recognized, to be thought not basic but special.

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This is true, but it has always been true and AI doesn’t have much to do with it.

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For a few weeks there, I checked my phone like a worried parent. Andrej Stojakovic had entered the NBA Draft, gone to the combine in Chicago, and told everyone he was “both feet in.” That phrase does something to an Illinois fan. It sits right in the chest.

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Then, on Wednesday, he pulled out. He’s coming back...

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Dan Oshinsky –

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If you’re an athlete, results are measured in wins and losses. But for the rest of us, there is no scoreboard — no way to clearly measure yourself against others.

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Which is a good thing, I’d say. Your success shouldn’t be based on whether you’re doing better or worse compared to someone else. There’s a reason for the expression “run your own race.”

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You have to figure out why you do this work. What matters to you? Why does this work have meaning to you? And are you doing work that meets those goals and those expectations?

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It’s not about followers or likes or even revenue.

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However you get...

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My right knee hurts. Twice while walking with Maria I stepped wrong and nearly fell. The second time was pretty close to crashing.

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Yesterday it was way better than it had been for days. I was on my knees helping plant flowers and plants and I generally felt okay. It was stiff this morning, but walking two...

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“Americans may not only pay tribute to our honored dead but also unite in prayer for success in our search for a just and lasting peace.” — John F. Kennedy, “Prayer for Peace,” Memorial Day 1962

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Matt Singer on The Mandalorian and Grogu –

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The movie’s set pieces are a little grander than the ones The Mandalorian typically produced for Disney+; AT-ATs look even more imposing in the boxy IMAX frame. Otherwise, the feature recreates the episodic vibe of the show’s first season. The Mandalorian and Grogu is a straightforward adventure with almost no character development and little to discover below its handsome surface. Even the two-act structure (complete with a cliffhanger right around the one-hour mark), suggests it could have been rejiggered from a pair of scripts for the never-made fourth...

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James Poniewzik on Colbert ending The Late Show –

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He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own weird, wonderful way. Stephen Colbert hosted his final ‘Late Show’ on Thursday night, completing the story of the TV year’s most notorious and rancorous cancellation. But his final hour-plus — an emotional and delightfully bizarre wake for a comedy institution — turned it into a cancellebration.

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That’s a good word. “Cancellebration.”

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Colbert’s finale was just...

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Seth Godin –

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At 2:30 in the morning, the night clerk at the hotel is a great help if you’ve locked yourself out of your room.

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But if you want to complain about the hours of the gym, the hotel’s environmental footprint or even their late check-in policy, you’re almost certainly wasting their time. And yours.

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Every organization with more than a few people in it has night clerks. Most of the people who work at the phone company, for example, and even the person clearing tables at the local pizza place.

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It’s the night clerks that have the most customer interaction–in fact, they’re almost certainly the...

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Dave Pell –

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Americans are increasingly divided, not only politically, socially, and economically, but geographically. Our lack of real-world interaction makes us all the more susceptible to hateful, rage-baiting messages spread by those who benefit from keeping us divided and afraid of one another. Most Americans have never met anyone in real life that they hate as much as the caricatured versions of their political opponents. The imaginary friends of our childhoods get replaced by the imaginary enemies that exist somewhere, out there, beyond the borders—online and off—of our silos of homogeneity....

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“I just realized that maybe (just maybe) the reason for the fact that I’m unhappy, unmotivated and slightly head-achey might be that I didn’t have my morning coffee yet.” — Dominik Schwind

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It’s raining off and on today and it’s making me depressed or maybe I’m just tired. I dunno.

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I’ve been watching YouTube stuff too much. Don’t get me wrong, I like what I’m watching but I’m missing on so many things on streaming. Aside from The Pitt with my wife, I’m not really watching anything regularly yet I’m paying for all the streaming services. I’m going to start watching shows/movies I want...

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