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Lettervoxd

A fun site if you like worms: Lettervoxd. Look up where words used in movies.

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  • Lettervoxd

    A fun site if you like worms: Lettervoxd. Look up where words used in movies.

  • Hermit crab conservation

    Someone noticed hermit crabs using plastic for their shell. They created an organization that cleans beaches and offers hermit crabs actual shells.

  • Home run swing off

    When the Major League All-Star game ended with a miniature home run derby, it felt like something out of Banana Ball.

  • Roland Garros French Open poster art

    Roland Garros has been creating posters for the French open since 1981. It’s interesting to see the aesthetics and styles change over 40+ years.

  • ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation

    ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation

  • Jordan Harper – She Rides Shotgun

    She Rides Shotgun will soon be a movie. The book that it’s based on tells of Nate McCluskey and his daughter, Polly, attempting to escape an Aryan Nation branch in Southern California. Jordan Harper writes a taut, propulsive story with hard boiled lyricism, mixing violence and pathos. Definitely recommended as a quick, engaging, easy read.

  • Deleting a second brain

    Joan Westenberg writes: For years, I had been building what technologists and lifehackers call a “second brain.” The premise: capture everything, forget nothing. Store your thinking in a networked archive so vast and recursive it can answer questions before you know to ask them. It promises clarity. Control. Mental leverage. But over time, my second…

  • Solar Sponges: Turning Sunlight Into Freshwater

    Scientists have developed a new type of solar sponge that can turn salt water into freshwater. Reporting in ACS Energy Letters, a team of scientists created a sponge-like structure filled with long, microscopic air channels that harness sunlight to turn saltwater into fresh, clean water. In an outdoor test, this simple system—just the sponge and…

  • Praise for the expert generalist

    Reading about the expert generalist explains my career: attaining a broad set of skills and connecting them as needed. So over the last year or so we have started to resist this industry-wide push for narrow skills, by calling out this quality, which we call an Expert Generalist. Why did we use the word “expert”?…

  • Have AI attend that meeting for you

    AI bots are attending meetings in people’s stead. Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the call — others represented humans who had declined to show up but sent a bot that listens but can’t talk in their place. The human-machine imbalance made Sellers concerned that the modern…