“Both stars of the video had been telling opposite sides of the same funny
anecdote for more than 25 years, unaware of who to thank for their respective
brushes with fame.”
posted 10/23/2022 8:00pm ∞
“It still isn’t clear whether people experience infantile amnesia because we
can’t form autobiographical memories, or whether we just have no way to retrieve
them. No one knows for sure what’s going on, but scientists have a few
guesses.”
posted 9/23/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[A] central theme of this story is that expectations move slower than reality on
the ground. That was true when people clung to 1950s expectations as the
economy changed over the next 35 years. And even if a middle-class boom began
today, expectations that the odds are stacked against everyone but those at the
top may stick around.”
(This is interesting and insightful, but I link to it with a very large caveat:
It erases minorities from the story.)
Morgan Housel ,
How All This Happened
(Collaborative Fund ,
November 24, 2021 )
posted 8/25/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The [New York] Times in particular is a well-resourced standard-bearer for
digital journalism, with a robust institutional archiving structure. Their
interest in facing the challenge of linkrot indicates that it has yet to be
understood or comprehensively addressed across the field.”
John Bowers, Clare Stanton, and Jonathan Zittrain ,
What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
(Columbia Journalism Review ,
May 21, 2021 )
“The end product is an internet-native sport that doesn’t need any of the
troublesome real-life human players who are bound to disappoint us with their
bad behavior. Instead, fans create narratives for players, inventing histories
and team culture to surround and explain the random, simulation-based events of
the game.”
Jason Snell ,
The joy of fake sports
(Six Colors ,
March 11, 2021 )
posted 3/28/2021 9:32pm ∞