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‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’

Perhaps does not meet the bar for topicality, but it feels very relevant to the current software zeitgeist. "It's inevitable that we're going to go into computers. All the knowledge I've acquired over these 26 years is all locked up in a little box now called a computer. I think most jobs are probably going to end up the same way." @13:51 More direct source from the New York Times:…

We haven't written up this one. Lobsters has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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What I’ve been reading

1. Mike Jay, Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain. Much of this story is told through the lens of the accompanying science fiction and non-neuro trends in other parts of science.

  • Mike Jay's "Wireheads" explores tech's impact on the brain.
  • Vasily Grossman's WWII narrative is compelling despite repetition.
  • Forough Farrokhzad's poetry is passionate despite early death.

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