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...The answer is that there’s an entire genre of media coverage best described as “rich guy has an opinion.”

"A 2026 Finnish study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to look at patients’ shoulders found that 99% of Finnish adults over 40 have at least one rotator cuff abnormality." https://brainlenses.substack.com/p/abnormality

Incidental Rotator Cuff Abnormalities on Magnetic Resonance Imaging https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Let's not forget MusicTheory.net Been around forever and has a very robust set of exercises and lessons. Free online and a great app as well. https://www.musictheory.net/exercises

He ends his essay with "Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article", but how is it not OpenAI, Anthropic etc. as well as Google, to blame. We're meant to believe that with their resources they couldn't have created a micro-payment scheme to compensate creators? Altman on Fridman podcast two years ago about compensation... https://youtu.be/jvqFAi7vkBc?si=9YbKoH_dFIishAXt&t=2409

I think it's odd that what seems like a big story people would like to be following along with just vanished.

Excellent in-depth article and it's 6 years old. If this gets solved it will be a very big deal. We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable https://theconversation.com/we-found-a-way-to-turn-urine-int...

https://chatgpt.com/share/696a8c52-f29c-800d-b597-93dfde0c30...

What you’re reacting to isn’t just “ads.” It’s the feeling of: Someone monetizing the collective output of human thought while quietly severing the link back to the humans who produced it.

That triggers a very old and very valid moral instinct.

Why “sleazy” is an accurate word here

“Sleazy” usually means: technically allowed strategically clever morally evasive

My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming—suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights.

Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I’ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he provides); many say they can smell the cotton candy or hear the chatter of the crowd.

It’s striking how little we really know about the variety of inner sensory experiences: Discovering Your Mind – Aphantasia and Beyond https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discovering-your-mind-...

A favorite research paper compares brain activity in identical twin sisters, only one of whom is aphantasic: The Neural Underpinnings of Aphantasia: A Case Study of Identical Twins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614521v2

Science Mag Podcast covered this as well... with Madeleine McLeester, assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College. I thought interesting that they have yet to find the village that associates with the gardens. https://www.science.org/content/podcast/farming-maize-ice-ag...

Immediately after the book won the Pulitzer in 1981, Gottlieb could not recall Toole or the manuscript. In his 2016 memoir, Gottlieb wrote that, after returning to A Confederacy of Dunces decades later, he felt the same about its flaws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gottlieb

I suddenly remembered why, having previously found this channel, which is full of great information, I can't stand to watch the videos - the innocuous background music! Anyone else have this problem... where you're perhaps overly sensitive to music, especially non-fiction videos and podcasts? I find the background music unbearable.

Anything that Google does apart from make money selling ads and turning the internet into an ad cesspool functions as a smoke screen to fool the public (and their employees) into thinking they do anything of real value or that serves the community. All of it https://killedbygoogle.com/ serves as a (relatively) inexpensive marketing tool.

Awsm!

I may be missing something, but I would like to be able to search by zip and return individual doctor's names.

...What I usually hear from “CGM users without diabetes” is along the lines of ‘it helps you to understand your metabolism and make changes to your diet and lifestyle’. This is a compelling narrative, but I have a couple of problems with it: First the premise that CGM outside of diabetes can show you something to fix is at best flawed and at worst an invention designed to move product.

Having only discovered Aphantasia in my 6th decade on the planet, it's safe to say that you can't miss what you never had. That said, in a FB forum that discusses Aphantasia, a few people who previously had the ability to 'see memories', were devastated by the (stroke) loss of it. Upon describing my situation, one friend immediately asked incredulously, "How do you jerk off?" I'm intrigued with the article. That a "Mind's Eye" could be developed is an exciting possibility. BTW, This is a tight, short, Hank Green video that I send to folks who have no idea what I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91tvp0b1fY

I take the heals of my palms and apply gentle pressure, just long enough to create phonemes. So, not rubbing. (Not that this too might not be a good idea to do too often).

Really, this is disgraceful and it's unacceptable that Apple hasn't come up with a work around... Just as millions of iPhones and iPads have been scrapped due to Activation lock, we are now seeing 2018+ MacBooks scrapped at recyclers as well, due to the "feature" being enabled on those devices.

FYI, A very simple awareness hack is resting your reading glasses farther down your nose, so that you're forced to have your head sit higher/straighter when looking at your screen.

A Random Movie Maker that looks at my 4 TB collection of personal history... digitized journals, email, photos, digitized cassettes, phone messages, and home videos, and creates a random 15 minute movie. Each video will include about 50 clip sources. It's a crazy trip down memory lane.

I hate ads too. The thing I tried that felt ethical and useful was an affiliate code for related (to the content) products that would split the discount 50/50 between me and readers. I stated this clearly in the ad.

I'm very happy with NetNewsWire 3.3.2 on Mac OS El Capitan 10.11.6.

I recently contacted Archive.org to ask if they had a "time-capsule" option... could I upload now and have it made public in xx years. They don't, but I wish they did. Not so much for friends and family but thinking that there may be some historical value to my archives in the future.

That the author writes for a company that sells products (tools for analyzing dns and web shenanigans) doesn't make the post an'ad' does it? What struck me in particular was that if it's this easy (granted, using custom tools) to track these kinds of activities, why doesn't Google do it for us and block these (long list of related) domains from search results?

https://www.domdb.com/img/landing.jpg

But could we all agree that a shorter, easily spelled, 'radio-friendly' (unambiguous) .com domain can save a load on marketing costs? I work backwards from my startup ideas and check the drop daily for domains that match my keywords. It doesn't take a lot of time and occasionally I find something perfect.

My understanding is that Godaddy employees are forbidden from buying and selling domains and have been for at least the 6 years I've been purchasing the occasional domain in their auction platform. When were you at Godaddy?

Is it on a .com? Maybe they could care less about the project, but need the url to flesh out a million dollar ad campaign. Are they asking for any kind of non-compete? i.e. Could you simply re-brand and relaunch? My advice would to not be in any hurry. See if you can gauge how urgent they are. For now, tell them this project means a lot to you, a lot more than $10k.

The reputation engine built into Ebay seems to be taken very seriously. OTOH as someone who has avoided joining Prime, typically waiting until I have enough purchases to qualify for free shipping, I've experienced constant nudge (the increase in free shipping sale amount moving from 35-50, the obvious skew towards Prime in search results) shopping at Amazon in the last two years. I'm just suggesting that for me, having a philosophical reason to support Ebay over Amazon (democratic, bottom up, vs. top down) will help assuage the nuisance factor.

I think the article helped me realize that Ebay is a better match for me philosophically. Ebay is incentivized to provide a fair and transparent marketplace that empowers anyone. Their product is really the marketplace.