This is an extremely random thing to come back with after not having been here for several months – during which time I was feeling ick and tired and getting used to chemotherapy – but hey! I watched/read some fun/interesting/thought-provoking things in the last 24 hours, and I feel compelled to share 😀
Thank you, as always, for tolerating my sporadicness – sporadicity? That.
Reminder that you’ll need to click through to see the videos if you’re reading this in your inbox.
- This video on the origin of time words was fascinating for linguistically interested people like me:
2. This amazing video by Struthless appropriately titled “The Brainrot Apocalypse: This Is Your Brain On AI” investigates the ACTUAL evidence for the impact of AI on human thinking and, helpfully, what we can actually DO about it.
3. As a follow-up, I read this magnificent article that Struthless linked to in his video on the idea of Digital Gardening. It’s long and glorious and I love the idea that maybe garden-style thinking is the antidote to the current algorithm-generated stream-based style of information presentation that currently dominates our internet experience.
4. I also posted a video! For the first time in FOREVER, I made not only a reel, but an actual YouTube video! It has recently come to my attention that I have approximately one squintillion books that I own and haven’t read yet, so I made a TBR jar – which quickly had to be upgraded to a TBR vase (!) – and am doing a monthly draw of Which Books I’m Reading to hopefully reduce this number. Spoiler: it’s a large number. A horribly, terribly large number.