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‘Please Use AI’. Via Daring Fireball. This was worth the read and a beautiful reminder of our humanity
I just wrote words and I don't know if they have any meeting but there sure are a lot of them in here. If you can read it, great, that's one if us.
Everyone wanted Vangelis the year after Chariots of Fire, and the two movies who landed him were Blade Runner and this downbeat drama. It’s a dialogue-heavy movie, light on the music, but whenever those classy synths kick in, you float...
Photo by Keagan Henman on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
Boasting a blatantly contrived high-concept premise, One Night Only is better than it ought to be. At the same time, the movie — which rides on agreeable performances from Monica Barbaro and Collum Tower — isn’t the winning charmer it...
i hate typing on my phone. it's so slow. it takes forever to get my thoughts out. and i'm still very prone to typos which only adds to the time it takes. (yes, i am typing this blog post on my phone) i don't have a keyboard with...
I was already a sucker for this movie, another “song can save your life” narrative from Carney with winning actors and actually good songs and a cute Glen Hansard tribute, then Glen died suddenly, and now I’m ready to declare this the...
New York NYTook the train up from DC to meet family from the West Coast. We were walking from the hotel to Bryant Park and stumbled upon this place while looking for an afternoon pick-me-up. Small place with their own beans and merch for...
Front End Study Hall #55 I attended Front End Study Hall on Thursday. I had not been in awhile. It was good to join. I didn’t contribute to the discussion. There were some interesting topics that I might explore through writing in the...
Excited for Noah Kahan at Target Field tonight!
Rozi Coffee is in Shin-Okubo - a cafe hotspot I am yet to mention on this blog. It’s the station next to Shinjuku on the Yamanote line, and is most famous for being Tokyo’s Koreatown. It’s home to a number of cute Korean cafes, although...
"Make it feel polished" is an opinion. Agents hear it all the time, and the output stays roughly the same because the sentence doesn’t constrain anything. A useful skill is that opinion forced into structure: when to activate, what to...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Tactics Theatrics. Media Centre Description: Popular animated series. Ash and Pikachu return to the Kanto region to complete the Battle Frontier – seven ultimate tests...
Nota bene: Today’s post contains another installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of...
In-depth interview, and dispatch from Ibiza, care of gentleman abroad, Chris English. Next year will mark two decades living on this strange island. I don’t really know how I got here, let alone stayed for so long. It’s been five years...