🔖💻 Read Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore by Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker).
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🔖📚 Read A Pennsylvania Public Library Had Funding Cut Because of LGBTQ+ Books. Then, An Olympian Stepped In..
An important reminder from Kelly Jensen about how libraries are on the ballot today in many places.
🔖 Read The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts by Brewster Kale (The Guardian).
A useful reminder that even publishers come for libraries now, with restrictions on digital lending.
🔖📺 Read How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family.
In the world of Hill House, devotion to family is a tender kind of madness that exists just on the other side of mourning, a ghostly insistence that the love that binds us is also the thing that keeps us chained.
🔖🖼️ Pokémon teams up with Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
My kid doesn’t like art museums and only tolerated the Van Gogh museum because the scavenger hunt involved getting a prize at the end. I wish they’d had this going on when we were there!
🔖🖖🏻 Happy Star Trek Day! I just read Teaching in Trek: A Look at the Education System of the Future by @joepraska@universeodon.com.
I love thinking, reading, & writing about this stuff. This is great timing as I watch Keiko O’Brien start the school on DS9. Thanks for writing this, Joe!
🔖 💻 Read Now is the time for grimoires: It isn’t data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise by Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing).
This is the most helpful take on generative AI that I’ve seen: create a prompt that is basically a computer program written in prose instead of code.
🔖📚 Read Shadow and Bone author Leigh Bardugo: ‘People sneer at the things women and girls love’ by Sian Cain (The Guardian).
She really is my hero.
🔖📚 Read Falling in Love With the Avengers, America’s Most Toxic Work Force by Leigh Bardugo (New York Times, gift link)
I love Leigh Bardugo so much.
I love that they were able to let Worf’s skin be the same color as Michael Dorn’s.