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(The Washington Post sometimes uses such networks to place ads touting its offerings, such as subscriptions, and also generates revenue featuring ads sold through advertising…

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Great discussion, and I am also in the process of writing a post about anarchy (which is, perhaps surprisingly, actually related 😉 )

Natural Languagee + Artificial Intelligence / Languages

Teaching Teens Literacy 101

Dot COM people matter too

Google Bullshit:

its automated information sniffing system just went in, found this article that I guess people had pointed to as something about how long it takes to do this, and then it saw that at the top of the piece, it talks about taking five minutes, and then taking five minutes more, which should mean 10 minutes. But Google just said,…

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This will totally blow you away! 😯

DEAD LANGUAGES:

If nobody is developing a specific extension, its mostly dead.

nTLD extensions are already failing from sysadmin

Writing obscures the ghastliness of what is, which is speechlessness; it weaves a flimsy veil of presence around the eternal nothing. Writing is a lack, but the lack is not in words but the world that surrounds them.

Writing and identity

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Plastic Stars is a favorite, but this one is also chuckle-worthy:

It is a stigmatising insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr Trump (who is neither).

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/an-eminent-psychiatrist-demurs-on-trumps-mental-state.html

[via http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38991171 ]

rage will bring me attention, but language will bring me out from isolation.

What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Playboy presents you with the bare truth! 😯

Sites like Freelancer… — are acquired by Freelancer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38881870

LOL 😀

Pete Haycock’s “Lucienne” is a long-time favorite 🙂

Jordan Ritter, in an interview on Jason Calicanis’ This Week in Startups (ca. 22:40):

Look at all of the things Google does, just knowing your email.

http://thisweekinstartups.com/jordan-ritter-atlas-informatics/

I <3 that Jason has started promoting WordPress! 😀

Devo might as well DUMP, but at least they got the BEAT! 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o

Our lives are too precious to deny that which we love just because others often minimize or despise our true flavors.

https://coffeeandablankpage.com/about/alices-thirteen-ways/

Mary Tyler Moore, RIP