Are smartphones making our breath worse? And TWO reposts!
Now, when people wait, they don't have to look around to find something to make themselves busy with or pass time. Smartphone is always there. Few people would reach for a pack of gum in boredom.
In Defense of Filming Crime
So I say we should be ashamed of the crime rates and apartheid of St. Louis, where this man managed to murder and walk the streets for hours. We should be more ashamed of the media that pushes this content on us. And we should be even more ashamed of the social media that prioritizes clicks over mental health, wanting us to see content we explicitly do not want to see, just because it gets a reaction. We should never shame the bystandards of horror for their natural reactions. After all, most of us would do the same.
Repost: Eric Schmidt, "Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics"
If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation.
Repost: Jason Crawford, "Can submarines swim?"
Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting?
Citation Needed
Citations at the end are the, “OH! NOW I GET IT!" of writing.
Fact Checking The Root, “When Racism Slips Into Everyday Speech”
Some phrases really are racist
Bad Teachers… Are More Influential
Even with all the kind and great people in this beautiful world, a rotten minority can ruin it. The lesson is to ignore the rotten people and focus on the kind. I must have missed this lesson.
ExMas -- Tales of Exes Past
Dating is what you make of it.
Repost: Hannah Arendt, "On Forgiveness"
“Forgiving, in other words, is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.”