solving apps on almost 100 of my old blog posts is going to be a pain in the ass

I've worried for a while on the effect on the crossword ecosystem of Amuselabs getting bought, going out of business, etc. I should have seen this coming given that they added an experimental AI cluing feature several months ago. If they're scraping our puzzles for this, going back and changing...

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They're better environmentally and they boil water extremely quickly and one day I hope to learn how to fry an egg on one

I don't think anyone can

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They also have Anemona Hartocollis as their beat reporter on wokeness *just at Harvard*

Millennials are pretty internet-poisoned but I think they may be the least internet-poisoned generation. Anyone whose initial high-dose exposure to social media was Facebook is potentially walking around with brainrot as debilitating as a TikTok teen's

One of the biggest oddities of the entertainment business must be working on huge deals with A-listers who never went to college and in many cases finished high school with tutors. Angelina Jolie said in an interview that no one at her high school ever even suggested that she try to go to college.

three years of law school, about six weeks of near-full-time self-guided study each time, and not being a celebrity with a multi-million-dollar business empire and four kids to look after.

CA regulates law schools and bar admissions more lightly than any other state, which is how she is able to qualify to take the bar through an "apprenticeship" rather than attending law school. but also has arguably the hardest bar exam in the country. I've passed two state bar exams - after...

I kind of see the opposite among older kids, which is that for all their other knowledge deficits they are very good at distinguishing AI- from human-created images.

"Meltdown" is unfair. They stopped teaching or requiring kids to handwrite anything after second grade or so and so they literally don't have the small motor skills to move a pen efficiently. They eliminated cursive so they don't have the physical ability to execute a signature well.

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That was one reason I quit FB 10 years ago. I was funneling my severe depression into daily 10 am political rants -- for which I got reliably positive feedback. I started saying things about realizing the rants were driven by depression and no one noticed.

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