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Journalist and author Mike Elgan on culture, technology and our changing world.
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Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News
If you search for a specific phrase in quotation marks, Google News will spam you with social media garbage instead of news that's relevant to your search. If you remove the quotation marks, Google News will spam you with actual news stories, but ones unr
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Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? Yeah, that's Google News now. In this metaphor, Forrest is Googl
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AI researchers want AI to fake
They want deliberately slow chatbot responses to make people trust the answer more. And it makes me trust the researchers less.
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The best way to think is to move
I don't know why, but creative thinking and planning with clarity and ambition are always helped by motion. Go for a walk. Hike on a trail. Take a road trip. Fly to another country. The act of moving helps you unstick yourself, and breaks you out of the d
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We live in the age of capture
Maybe 12 years ago or so, I enjoyed newsgroup-like mailing list thing with three other guys who were all former co-workers of mine. Basically, we just swapped funny current events (what we'd now call memes) we would write profane limericks, and generally
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