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themarginalian.org
The Power of a Thin Skin

When we fail to see the connections between things, we fail to anticipate the consequences of any one thing. A century before we began slaying entire ecosystems with pesticides meant to eradicate individual species, before we began tinkering with individual genes in the complex cathedral of the genome, the naturalist John Muir exulted that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe" — an exultation that now reads as an admonition.

— Maria Popova
6d ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Singlish Edition

Yet Singlish not only survived but became a marker of identity, something that distinguished Singaporeans from Malaysians, from expats, from mainland Chinese, from anyone who hadn't grown up inside the particular crucible of the city-state. The government's suppression attempts arguably accelerated its cultural value, the way prohibition makes a drink taste better.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is reinventing us.

1mo ago

The true paradox of the machine is that it was created to serve man, yet it has enslaved him to its rhythms and demands; we have made ourselves the appendages of our own inventions.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is bent on inventing us.

2mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented the controls that belong with the machine.

2mo ago
wired.com
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

2mo ago
longreads.com
The Death of a Superman

Paul Collins began documenting deaths that occurred in clothing donation bins, whose designs are hostile and can be lethal, depending on the interaction.

3mo ago
wired.com
Your Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are

Companies hope that biometric age-verification tech in cartridges could put flavored vapes back in business. But it's unlikely to solve the real problems.

3mo ago

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