Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information:
Across a range of formats, from merchandise and the sign on NPR’s headquarters to billboards and ad screens on the New York City subway, the recognizable block letters transform into urgent and timely questions—many that listeners around the country are asking. “How does AI affect my electric bill?” “Why are groceries still so expensive?” “How is my farm going to survive?”
Clever.
The Four Rules for a Good Walk:
useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
“We are all product managers now, pleading with obtuse underlings to go back and try again and to get it right this time.” eod.com
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Shiori is a “simple read-it-later app.” shiori.sh
“Percentage of U.S. employees who say they regularly feign working while at their desks : 58” harpers.org
[I was] “… at a tech conference where a robot was making and serving drinks, and me and a few friends followed a power cord to a curtained area, behind which was a human in VR controlling the robot manually.” hughhowey.com
Gravity Notes is a quick capture notepad with “No accounts, no folders, no noise.” gravitynotes.app
“The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content.” garbageday.email
“Is this how it all ends: each of us alone at home, messaging with increasing levels of desperation and punctuation?” walknotes.com
“[The Great Stay] is driven by fear. [Workers] are staying not because they love their role but because they’ve looked at the alternatives and concluded that the risk of leaving exceeds the pain of staying. thedrum.com
Molly Guard: the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance. unsung.aresluna.org
Source: nemfrog.tumblr.com
The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade. (lithub.com)
Links Supply: collects links shared on Bluesky. (links.supply)
Dumb Canes by Rabia S. Akhtar. (instagram.com)
Phantom Obligation: the guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do. (terrygodier.com)
What are you favourite well-made apps or sites? (unsung.aresluna.org)
A collection of found cassette tapes. (intertapes.net)
A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at The Jazz Estate. (youtube.com, 58:20)
What podcasts do to our brains. “Silence activates the brain’s “default mode” — and that’s good. Quiet time makes space for self-reflection, planning, and daydreaming.” (vox.com)
Recipe for a good week An ingredient that works for me: take a bit of time to just stare out the window, drinking some coffee, checking in with the locals (birds, bunnies, and squirrels). (tracydurnell.com /via Chris Glass)
Radiant Computer. “We believe the current trajectory of personal computing is leading us to a less free world, and that only a new computing movement rooted in human dignity and creativity can change its course.” (radiant.computer)