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Wicked pissa! Love a Boston accent so think, you wonder what language they're talking
Wanted: A New Voice of Boston’s Airport. Heavy Accent Required.
Logan International Airport is looking for a “voice that feels like home.” For some Bostonians, it’s a chance at redemption.
wsj.com
AI agents can change your life, and more so with the more they know. But at what cost? Can you trust them with info you cannot redact? Like all debates on disclosure, it’s a one way door.
ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users
Chatbots are building "algorithmic self-portraits" of users as they retain information for a hyper-personalized experience, a study warns.
futurism.com
Something approximating systematic analysis of noise complaints around data centers. tl;dr: noise issue is real, especially if you're within half a kilometer of the data center. More common if the DC has onsite power gen. if you are >800 meters, there does not appear to be noise issues. (There may be other effective mitigations but distance makes the heart grow fonder.) This...all makes sense to me? P.s. I notice train noise at night at my house but not during the day.
How Noisy Are America’s Largest Data Centers?
my agents and i mapped noise coming from america’s 25 largest data centers. turns out not all hyperscalers annoy their neighbors, and this problem is very solvable.
piratewires.com
Fantastic interview with one of the great film editors, anchored in his work on The English Patient.
Editing As Music: An Interview with "The English Patient" Craftsman Walter Murch
The acclaimed editor and sound designer talks about the poetry of the edit in Anthony Minghella's classic, and his approach to his craft.
rogerebert.com
Ten years on, the Gawker team reflects on their demise from Peter Thiel and the beginning of moguls controlling media narratives for their benefit (aka the continuing corruption of truth and journalistic integrity).
At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing
Their weaponized wit made enemies, minted stars and helped define the internet as we know it. A decade after Peter Thiel engineered the site’s spectacular collapse, Nick Denton’s diaspora is still shaping media — and haunted by what happened.
hollywoodreporter.com
A very brief introduction to how you get caffeine out of coffee.
Coffee Decoded: The Chemistry of Decaffeination — Specialty Coffee Association
Welcome to Coffee, Decoded , the Specialty Coffee Association’s weekly column on science, research, and all things coffee knowledge. PETER GIULIANO , the SCA
sca.coffee
Continuing my theme today on declining alcohol consumption, only now the risk is to the English pub
Pints Alone Won’t Save the British Pub. Activate the Knitting Circle.
The country’s bars are exploring some of the more niche needs of their communities, seeking revenue to cope with rising costs and sober-curious youngsters.
wsj.com
"Corn, candy or otherwise, symbolizes the end of harvest, and candy corn replicates its season’s flushing foliage. To set out a bowl of candy corn invites eating less than it marks a moment on the endless calendar that hurtles you ever closer to death." (For the record, I am pro-candy corn.)
You Must Respect Candy Corn
Even in paradise, death lurks.
theatlantic.com
Good piece by Dara Lind, whose thoughtful reporting on immigration I always appreciate.
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
newyorker.com
I found this delightful!
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
