There’s a podcast I lesten to, to improve parenting that runs a workshop called “taming your triggers”.

Podcast name? Thanks for the tips here

Definitely. I’ve used macos for work for 10+ years now and never had an issue with updates. Windows updates on the other hand…

Hey, wouldn’t it be great if Signal still supported SMS?

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Would this interfere with legitimate crawlers as well, the Internet Archive for instance?

It works akin to something like a stripped-down ChatGPT, reading your incoming text messages and delivering its own simplified version of their content.

Who even wants or needs this? A book or article, I could understand.

Art can be a joke, a joke can be art

Sure, nothing is more masculine than having a preference for men.

If you could increase the productivity of knowledge-workers 5%, that’s worth a trillion

A big if (and where does these numbers come from?), but more importantly, a “more productive” knowledge worker isn’t necessarily a good thing if the output is less reliable, interesting or innovative for example. 10 shitty articles instead of 1 quality article is useless if the knowledge is actually worth anything to the end user.

Ed Zitron, a tech beat reporter, criticizes a recent paper from Goldman Sachs, calling AI a “grift.”

Fittingly, this paragraph is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t already read the blog post; who is calling AI a grift, Zitron or GS? And is Zitron critical of the GS article (no, he’s not)?

Now, if it was your job to actually absorb the information in this blog post, there’s really no way around actually reading the thing - at least if you wanna do a good job. Any “productivity boost” would sacrifice quality of output.

Seriously? It’ll take you a minute to read, if you read slowly.

You haven’t been looking very hard I gather. There are numerous studies done on the benefits of reading, you could use your preferred search engine to read a few of them perhaps.

Those sure are some labyrinthine sentences you managed to conjure up there. Now, if only I didn’t find the task so boring, perhaps I might be able to untangle a coherent thought or two, who knows?

The idea that “Oh, if all the morons likely to believe facist ideology are just taught Hamlet, it will all be okay”

Well, of course nobody said that, it’s a gross oversimplification of my argument - a strawman - which I guess is very fitting in this context.

This is a naive position. In a class society, the upper classes see to it that their kids get educated. If you’re the daughter of an AC repairman, and you like books with weird words in them, your chances to have a career in the field where you would thrive are slim to none. The best way to counter this is to offer a lot of education, to everyone, not just to the people “with a good head for reading” that just happens to also all have rich parents. For this noble cause, taking the risk that a few kids might be bored for a few hours seems like a reasonable prize to pay. You never know what kid is going to respond to what subject, this is why a broad education is important.

No one is arguing that. Less-dumbed-down, thoughtful and well-formulated arguments and debates would benefit everyone, though. Especially if the audience is educated enough to be able to appreciate them.

So your argument is politics should be cartoonish, stylized and theatrical instead of nuanced and actually constructive? Congratulations, you got your wish. Just be sure to make the most of it before the masters of simplification and emotionally charged language - the fascists - take over, it’s just a matter of time I guess.

Not really. My point is, it’s very easy to dismiss something you have no knowledge or experience of. And I try to avoid doing that because it just contributes to the noise (I’m sure I don’t always succeed). But I don’t think it’s a good thing if reading comprehension and general language skills decrease in general, do you? Do you think people think more clearly, are able to argue their case better or identify disinformation more accurately if they don’t know as many words or how to use them?

Well, let me put it this way then: with your strategy, in 50 years there will be no one left alive who would be able to use or understand the word labyrinthine.