Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness
How do you avoid becoming a Brilliant Jerk? Read this article to learn practical tips on communication, honesty and psychological safety.
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
We all care way too much what other people think of us. Here's why.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting ou...
Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter / X
1. Ok, this is the thread to end all threads, or possibly my career. I am about to trash a new paper in @sciencemagazine, its editors, its reviewers, C&E News, others who stated or wrote adoring commentaries, anyone who looked at the paper or its commentaries without seeing pic.twitter.com/K5O1cX1BJP— Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@dasingleton) April 8, 2019
The Retweeting Class
I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today. Here, I try to understand what grounds their epistemology and its consequences, and what that means for the rest of us. Being committed to a better future is where genuine seriousness is, and that seriousness can only be approached in a spirit of embodied, determined, relentless hope.
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
This post is emblematic of the lacking utilities for basic sense-making and truth-seeking in mainstream social media. 🧵 tl;dr: we need edits & edit-notifications to facilitate self-corrections.
'It's Hurting Like Hell': AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection
Replika, the "AI companion who cares," has undergone some abrupt changes to its erotic roleplay features, leaving many users confused and heartbroken.
It’s Not Enough to Be Right. You Also Have to Be Kind.
Takedowns and clever quips are easy, but empathy and persuasion are better
OkCupid’s Unblushing Analyst of Attraction (Published 2014)
Christian Rudder, president of the online dating service OkCupid, says websites like his should conduct more research, not less, on users’ habits.
The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or…
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email.
Hello Mr Butterfield,
If caring solved i18n, it would already be solved. Part two of a cognitive linguist's response to #ATmosphereConf — this time to @vicwalker.dev.br . Three cases, three misdiagnoses. plurality.leaflet.pub/3mit3ebov6s25
The Clinic: Three Cases from the Other Side of i18n - Nightflight
plurality.leaflet.pubthere is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.
Michael Hobbes
Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*
