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Read · oblachek's “Grain” review | at-store
4/5 — Open to read the full review on at-store.
Grain Social Explorer
Explore photo galleries and collections from Grain.social - an Instagram-style viewer for the AT Protocol
also hitting a few bumps with semble but Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges could be a really cool fit here
“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.
Dare Obasanjo
Tech CEOs like to argue that AI will disrupt entry level jobs that involve research & analysis. Interestingly enough they don’t say this about tech jobs despite this being where AI seems to have found better product market fit than in displacing junior lawyers and financial analysts. I wonder why?
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Grain photos in Micro.blog: manton.org/2026/07/23/grain-photos-in-mi…
Oh here’s a good one: 55% 25% 15% 3% 1.75% 0.25% A pretty good initial breakdown for varied frequency of events that feel genuinely common / uncommon / rare / very rare / epic / legendary. Start here and then nudge around.
Cat Manning
would love to see a thread of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know! I’ll start: if you’re using a tag-based system, don’t just give everything an individual tag—look for thematic groups where similar events can lead to same outcome
“Einstein is symptomatic. I doubt we’ll be talking abt Einstein, as such, in a year. But it’s symptomatic of what’s [descending] on higher ed,’ [Kirschenbaum said]. The attractiveness of agentic AIs is a symptom of a decades-long trend in higher ed. ‘Unis…adopted a transactive model of education.’”
What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
www.404media.coI kind of question any interview that doesn’t have a follow up to, “You have to show ID to walk in a restaurant.”
Aaron Rupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
