Readit Newsaethrum commented on Ask HN: Would you use an app that helps you collect and revisit favorite quotes? · Posted by u/relaxy
Man Canada used to be so impressive. We need to get back there
I slept around 5 hours last night split up into two periods because my baby daughter woke up crying from fever and wanted to play / was hallucinating / etc. She's totally fine now but I am wondering if there is a correlation between dementia and having kids.
Probably negatively correlated cause you have someone to interact with in your old age/better chance of community :)
I can understand that there are some good arguments for using AI generated pics. Using AI means not having to pay for photographers who'd either have to spend a lot of time taking or staging pictures, and not having to pay for their travel expenses which means that money can be spent on aid instead of marketing. Also it can feel a bit exploitative to photograph vulnerable people, especially children.
As long as the images they end up with accurately reflect the situation on the ground and the use of AI is transparent it seems like a good idea to use AI for attention grabbing images and supplement with candid photos from aid workers who aren't professional photographers.
But its not... real.
aethrum commented on Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph... · Posted by u/b2ccb2
Not a "distant universe" but our universe distant in time ( aka our universe in the past when it was younger ).
The title reads like astronomers found a mysterious dark object in another universe. Like a distant solar system or a distant galaxy.
Or am I misunderstanding the findings here?
no it doesn't
I really appreciated her speaking to young people, even riding the NYC subway for the first time to record "Subway Takes" last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkwo6JPV00
She also was speaking on a panel just a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0GWlZm3gk
crazy how you can just be this alive one year and then dead the next. I get 91 is old, but still
no
aethrum commented on The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com/the-beaut... · Posted by u/speckx
I quite enjoy reading Chris Siebenmann's blog [https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/] which is very light on theming, as I really like the aesthetic. I have to say though, if all blogs were like this the Internet might seem a bit boring, so I chose to give my own blog some personality.
What do you like about reading this? Its so hard to read for me on a 27 inch monitor in a full screen browser window, lol
Look at the first two subheadings:
> 1: Connecting with people is about being a dazzling person
> 2: Connecting with people is about playing their game
The post felt like a rollercoaster between using tricks to charm and manipulate, and periods of genuinely trying to learn how to be friends with people.
I don't want to disparage the author as this is a personal journey piece and I appreciate them sharing it. However this did leave me slightly uneasy, almost calling back to earlier days of the internet when advice about "social skills" often meant reductively thinking about other people, assuming you can mind-read them to deconstruct their mindset (the section about identifying people who feel underpraised, insecure, nervous,) and then leverage that to charm them (referred to as "dancing to the music" in this post).
Maybe the takeaway I'd try to give is to read this as an interesting peek into someone's mind, but not necessarily great advice for anyone else's situation or a healthy way to view relationships.