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via JR JR, a sunny devotional for the day.

Its tough to decide which (or how many!) of these posters — sets are on sale to raise money & awareness for the pandemic — I want around the house…

I’m curious about impact on this crisis will leave on our collective memory, & what will remain in cultural memory in a few decades, when all of the kids grow up, then find each other and share their individual stories of struggle.

In the meantime, buy art.

Source: Give Each Other Some Space – Set of 10 Posters – Erase Covid

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“In my dreams, I was inventing literature,” he recalled. Month by month the typescript grew, presaging the weight that the great novel and the “solitude of fame,” as he would later put it, would inflict on him.

From 2016, this tale of the history & impact of a book that I (& clearly most of us…) found so meaningful.

By Paul Elie via Vanity Fair

I really enjoyed this episode of This Week in Machine Learning featuring the delightful Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) … her take on the issues was fresh & added a perspective that is really lacking — & that we don’t always realize is missing — from the standard discussions about AGI & how AI is (& might be) used by companies, governments, or anyone else for that matter…

(Also I’ve been on a kick lately learning more about AI & trying to wrap my head around some of the deeper conceptual methods used in machine learning, & have found the TWIML&AI podcast to be a pretty good one….)