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Last night I went to bed at 8:30 and slept through to around 7. Whoops. So instead of reviews or fic, I have links.
G-Male: why the effect of Google Plus has been to make me check Facebook more often. Also, if you haven’t left Plus yet, as I just did, here’s a great reason: if you delete your Plus account after getting tagged for a name violation, that might not save your other services, despite the explicit promise that it would! I’m pretty disgusted by the whole thing.
A lot going on here, but consider how Jason Lanier’s argument feels as applied to the care you get from or give to your parents or children:
Here’s a great example of book review as takedown (the book promotes charter schools as the answer to America's education woes): all the snark comes in the delicacy of the cuts.
This story is about the relationship or lack thereof between oxytocin, orgasm, and emotion, but what I really liked was an aphorism I’d never heard before: “It may be logical, but it’s not biological.” Neat!
G-Male: why the effect of Google Plus has been to make me check Facebook more often. Also, if you haven’t left Plus yet, as I just did, here’s a great reason: if you delete your Plus account after getting tagged for a name violation, that might not save your other services, despite the explicit promise that it would! I’m pretty disgusted by the whole thing.
A lot going on here, but consider how Jason Lanier’s argument feels as applied to the care you get from or give to your parents or children:
And so when all you can expect is free stuff, you don't respect it, it doesn't offer you enough to give you a social contract. What you can seek on the Internet is you can seek some fine things, you can seek friendship and connection, you can seek reputation and all these things that are always talked about, you just can't seek cash [for your contributions]. And it tends to create a lot of vandalism and mob-like behavior.
What would it mean to respect free stuff? Lanier thinks it’s impossible; I don’t.Here’s a great example of book review as takedown (the book promotes charter schools as the answer to America's education woes): all the snark comes in the delicacy of the cuts.
This story is about the relationship or lack thereof between oxytocin, orgasm, and emotion, but what I really liked was an aphorism I’d never heard before: “It may be logical, but it’s not biological.” Neat!