Category — Microblog Mondays

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An article in the Guardian explained that time optimists are perpetually late because they always optimistically think they’ve left enough time for something, and they haven’t.

While the article talks about timebenders and timekeepers, they don’t discuss time pessimists. I always think something will take longer than it does, so I’m often too early. I pessimistically Eyeore my way into starting a task, thinking it will take an hour, and then discover that the whole thing took eight minutes.

Are you a time optimist or pessimist?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Yesterday, I wrote about something I found on Kottke. Today, I bring up something I found via John Green, who was writing about something on Kottke. That feels meta.

It’s about how your brain pictures things. I’m a 1. I’m beyond a 1. I can mentally conjure up how things smell or feel or taste. And see it play out like a movie in my head, or feel my mouth water, or breathe in deeper.

So it’s so interesting to think about someone experiencing 5. Maybe as interesting as he thinks experiencing a 1. Where do you fall on the scale?

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Neal.fun put out an internet archive that you can scroll through like an online museum. Can you name the first MP3? When do you think 🙂 (indicating a smile) was first used? What year do you think held the first Amazon order, and what do you think it was?

Go explore and find out.

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I was fascinated by this experiment, putting two photos side-by-side: the actual photo and the AI-described photo. The person writes, “just to be super clear, at no point did I upload or share my original photographs with the AI software for this. I just attempted to describe the original shot with words alone.”

So they said what was in the photo, and this Adobe AI tool could generate a photo that looked similar (or sometimes more real) than the original photo. Super creepy. It seems to do better with inanimate objects than humans.

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I recently heard about an app that sounds like a formalized version of old-school bulletin boards or blogs. You can search for health advice provided by experts and then expanded by people who have said health situation. So you get IVF advice from the doctor, and then people who are going through IVF can chime in and give experiential additions to the advice. (I don’t know if IVF is on there, but that’s the gist.)

So it already exists (combine your doctor’s advice or Mayo Clinic’s web page + blogs or answers on IVFC), but I still thought it was neatly packaged.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.