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@vasta @manton Just read this and thought of you - observer.co.uk/news/colu…

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Isfahan - Half the World, Damaged

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“These sites carry historical memory that transcend ideology,” said Naghmeh Sohrabi, a professor of Middle East history and director for research at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. “They are living breathing monuments to beauty and creation, not just for Iranians but for all of us in the world.”

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Aga Khan III and Florence Nightingale at Tea\nThe 48th Ismaili Imam, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III relating being invited for tea to Florence Nightingale’s

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@amerpie I love that you wrote a ou this bc I was going to ask you just a few weeks ago about desktop tidying apps and just couldn’t find it via your tags. I did eventually (and ended up buying Hazel, thanks!)

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@ayjay In the unlikely event you haven’t already seen this, I’d be curious to read your take on it if you have? See shumer.dev/something…

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@manton Done

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@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Woohoo!

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@manton Ok, thanks!

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@manton I can’t see any of the images in Mark’s timeline from bsky in MB?

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Setting Boundaries

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@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Ooh, I shall out for them!

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Heartbroken\nShe went peacefully, leaving one more hole in our hearts.

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On Hating AI

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But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.

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— Anthony Moser, I am an AI Hater. 26 Aug 2025.

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@ayjay 💯

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Being Unique

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@manton Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.

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@manton A post I backdate-published earlier this afternoon on MB to its original publication date elsewhere has yet to turn up on my archives list. The slug post says it’ll be published soon and so curious to understand what a reasonable timeline would be for this.

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@manton Ta!

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Unplugging

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Things @vasta learnt the past few mo and now me, too :)

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@amerpie Ah, ok. Not funny either, I’m guessing? Did you like I Love You, Man?

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@manton Ah, brill. Funnily enough I’d also been thinking about this earlier in the week. Thanks for info - and ongoing commitment 🙏

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@amerpie 😂

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A Problem of Deferral\nThis hit (too) close to home:

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When I first started using PKM tools, I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting. Later, I believed I was solving a problem of integration. Eventually, I realized I had created a new problem: deferral. The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold.

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— JA Westenberg. I Deleted my Second Brain. Medium. 17 Jun 2025.

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Loved but Unremembered, the Forgotten Living

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… a reminder to remain alert to the passing of time and to make contact, now and then - an email, a text, a phone call, a letter - with those who have slipped from my mind, those loved but unremembered, the forgotten living, while they are still with us.

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— Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files, Issue 329, Jun 2025.

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@amerpie Oh no! I was so looking forward to seeing it. What was the biggest flaw?

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@ayjay Loved this, thanks!

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@manton Thanks!

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@vasta Sorry to hear :( Hope it passes soon.

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How to Write About Iran: fayaz.micro.blog

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@manton I actually enjoy reading your take on AI, not least bc your optimism tempers my personal scepticism, so I’m sorry you feel you need to step back. I hope you return to blogging about it soon.

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@amerpie Twice 😂

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@manton Another take on AI’s potential to democratize - www.gapingvoid.com/500000-ne…

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The Migration Question | 2025

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A definitive study of a hotly debated phenomenon: migration into Europe and America, its socioeconomic impacts, and the eternal policy efforts to stop the inevitable.

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@amerpie 😂

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Intuitive Heuristics

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@patrickrhone Nicely complements Rebecca Solnit’s Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

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@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Which one?

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On Joy

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Giving #7

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Krista Tippett. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery & Art of Living. 2017.

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Giving #6

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Warren Buffet. The Giving Pledge. 2010.

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The Gift of the Draft

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Home and Not: fayaz.micro.blog

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Being Worthy of Being Pope

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Meta’s Chatbot Remembers Everything

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In fact, Meta AI by default kept a copy of everything I said to it — to tailor its responses to me, to train a future version of Meta’s AI and, eventually, target me with ads. I was later able to delete its memory and my conversations, with some effort. But from my tests, Meta AI pushes the limits on privacy in ways that go much further than rivals ChatGPT, from OpenAI, or Gemini, from Google.

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— Geoffrey A Fowler, Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way, Washington Post, 5 May 2025

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Giving #5

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Vivek H Murthy. Together: Loneliness, Health & What Happens When We Find Connection. Wellcome Collection. 2020.

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Bookshelf 2025

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Giving Up on Third Places

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If the world’s foremost scholar on the importance of mingling with strangers had all but given up on doing so himself, what hope was there for the rest of us?

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—Allie Conti, Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place', The Atlantic, 4 April 2022

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On Experiencing Yellow…or Olo

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