Here is a letter from E.B. White to a man who wrote to him in despair over the bleakness of the human race. I've been thinking about this lately, so I thought I'd share it.

So if you could choose whether you were nearsighted or farsighted, which would you choose? (That is to say, you had to wear corrective lenses for whichever one you didn't choose.)

The Most Interesting Cat In The World

Here's a use for AI that I would actually like to see: patiently explaining to anti-vaxxers how vaccines actually work.

I guess it shows that I'm naive, but back when we were watching Altered Carbon, with its deeply broken society where the vast majority of humanity was living squalor while a select few lived like gods - it honestly never occurred to me that there were people who would see that as aspirational.

A useful set of recommendations for those of us who aren't quite ready to completely detach from Meta yet. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Volume up to hear the tiny little snores. How am I supposed to work under these conditions?

Learning from @haymaker.bsky.social how to show only posts from mutuals had already made the viewing experience here about 1000% better than Meta.

The insurance industry could use yesterday's shooting as a wakeup call to be less predatory, less mercenary, and to prioritize human life above profits. But what's actually going to happen is they are going to deny care to even more people in order to pay for protection details for their leaders.

Theater!