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Sometimes, things don’t go as expected.

I am mystified by low-information voters who are supposedly charting their political course based almost solely on their subjective lived experience/vibes and somehow are not clocking a dramatic decline in services of almost every sort in a few short mont…

Oooh, I like this analogy: Using LLMs to cheat through any kind of educational opportunity is like taking a forklift to the gym: Yes, you’ve technically moved weights around, but you’re going to realize the shortcomings of the approach the first time you…

“I think people are going to want a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed algorithms do,” Zuckerberg said Tuesday during an onstage interview with Stripe co-founder and president John Collison at Stripe’s…

To boost the popularity of these souped-up chatbots, Meta has cut deals for up to seven-figures with celebrities like actresses Kristen Bell and Judi Dench and wrestler-turned-actor John Cena for the rights to use their voices.

Almost everyone thinks they’re acting rationally.

I sometimes say fiction (especially romances, regardless of your or their orientation) is about escapism - fleeing your life into someone else's.

I will admit that I only made it about a chapter into this book before I felt compelled to put it down for a couple days.

Maybe this book came to me at just the right time.

I really tried to come up with a good intro here.

Voters in Missouri, Arizona, New York, Colorado, Nevada, Nebraska and Montana voted to enshrine protections in their states for women to decide their own healthcare Sarah McBride, D-Delaware, is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

Oh, sure, when you do it you win the Pulitzer Prize, but when I say the grapes are angry, they call me “the crazy farmer running around screaming about the emotional lives of plants.”

The inverse of “this meeting could have been an email” isn’t exactly “people keep sending emails about the meeting replying to the email that contains all the information they’re seeking” but it feels related, nonetheless

Hot take: Your build folder should not be completely excluded from your source control.

iOS updates’ 5+-year streak of the keyboard getting even worse at guessing what I’m trying to say (and completely divorcing suggestions from context) continues unbroken 💩 👑

The singularity is the victim of bad press.

If a person looks at all the art and tries to make their own copies and pass them off as art, we call them a forger.

I understand golf lingo.

I never thought about it as a kid, but the stores featured in movies date them just as much (if not more) than fashion, haircuts, cars, etc.

In my experience, when a doddering, elderly, clearly overwhelmed candidate flounders at a debate, he stops running for president.

If AI-written stories were any good, they’d put them on beats they perceive people care about.

I don’t know that we as a society are prepared for celebrity deaths at the rate they’ll soon come.

Why don’t we have a JS frontend framework that focuses on what devs want, not what Google or Facebook think are important, funded indefinitely with $30 million of a random unicorn’s windfall?

Tech has created more billionaires and centi-millionaires than ever existed.

Like many, I get annoyed by subscription pricing that doesn’t accurately reflect my needs.

Ernest Goes to Camp is the only movie I can recall that ends with a dramaric (frantic?)

I have been playing around with Soketi as a self-hosted Pusher alternative and, while the software is great, boy is its documentation and error messaging lacking.

Right as I was getting out of newspapers I was talking with our circulation manager, who had just heard of a revolutionary new idea that was going to save the industry.

I feel like society doesn’t give the average person enough opportunities to formally and vehemently object to things.

The number one sign I liked a book is when, after finishing, I immediately go to Amazon/the author's site to see what else they have published.

When I started writing reviews, I wanted to get away from star ratings and trying to prove the quality of the site through sheer mass of books.

Note: This content, by Anne Gibson, was originally published at the Pastry Box Project, under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

What makes a well-rounded character?

Forgive the lack of posts recently, a back injury has mostly confined me to bed, and I get a little sick of staring at computer screens.

Ugh, maybe there’s a reason “don’t judge a book by its cover” exists as a concept.

I’m a fickle science fiction reader.

There’s sometimes a rhythm to subjects that get portrayed in popular media.

This book is not going to speak to everyone.

It's so refreshing to have a book sneak up on me!

I try not to be a vacation snob.

Sometimes it’s hard to articulate why you like something.

This book was an awakening.

I want to be annoyed by it.

Whenever you encounter episodic storytelling, be it on a TV show or a Cinematic Universe or even a series of a books, the work often needs to justify itself while it catches you up.

I don’t even like going to the gym, so why do all the fitness romances keep pulling me in?

I love watching people who get true enjoyment out of their hobbies.

Have you ever gone to take a drink of something, only to realize it's not what you were expecting?

At this point, we can call the "insert the character's full name into the title" thing a trend, yeah?

In Ten Things I Hate About You, Patrick (Heath Ledger) tries to impress the girl (Julia Stiles) by bribing the marching band to play while he sings "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" over the stadium loudspeaker as he saunters down the truly massive stadium sea…