Wrote about the feeling of being unemployed for five months:

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Three books, and three of the most important infections on the planet: COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.

Combined, millions of people die and suffer from all three infections every year.

And as @sarahjones.bsky.social points out in her book DISPOSABLE, it always hits the poor the hardest.

Interesting interactive @time-magazine.bsky.social article with an AI assistant chatbot.

It's kind of cool to ask follow up and further understanding. But when I tried asking about Don Draper, who is referenced in the article, the chatbot said it was only there to answer questions about D-Trump.

Adults in many rich countries have grown less literate according to a once-in-decade survey.

From the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

Big Time important book if you are on social media, YouTube, listening to podcasts — or anywhere that pushes and pulls with information. This book has helped me understand the internet and how influence works in big and small ways.

See more here: www.reneediresta.com/books/

@noupside.bsky.social

High Conflict by Amanda Ripley is amazing.

Rec credit from @hankgreen.bsky.social

I’m only 50 pages in and I already feel calmer.

My neurons are a bonanza of drums. Arguments global or personal, irl, or online, this book unties and lets out a mess of hope.

www.amandaripley.com/high-conflict

Excellent synthesis of the AI race. @parmy.bsky.social explains how the major players — all the big names are here — have built the tech and why.

Furthermore, Parmy makes this tech accessible — and you’ll understand more than just AI.

You’ll see the scaffolding within Big Tech. Pick it up.

As a fact-checker and a longtime nonfiction writer, this article is devastates, but very accurate to how many people understand the world through media /reading/tech.

Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

#media

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
3/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
2/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
1/20

For every “A.I. wonder” — a garbage picking robot, a self-driving car, a talking GPT — I think it’s essential to know about the human labor behind the machines. We should know more about annotators and labelers around the word. Madhumita's first chapter brings creates their reality.

#AI

Today was Day 2 of writing, 1500 words. Day 1 had nearly 5,000. This is draft 1. This is also my fourth attempt at writing this book. 3 unsuccessful attempts. It won’t be exactly a memoir — too many scenes evaporated, too much story that can’t be known, but something else rather.