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Amazon Wants To Join The Big Movie Studios In The Theatres

The company says it plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies to be released in theatres - that's 12-15 theatrical releases a year, far outstripping Netflix's plans for cinemas. - Seattle Times (Bloomberg)

When Subscription Overload Hits And You Delete Your Whole History

Gmail keeps asking for money, and you start deleting ... everything. "I felt a sudden sense of mourning that I still have not gotten over. And yet, to my surprise, I felt something else alongside it: a conflicting sense of relief and even levity." - The Atlantic

Making A Kinder, Gentler Video Game

It takes a lot of effort - but it's worth it, and backed by science. - Wired

Bad At Arguing? Try This

It’s not impossible to make your argument stick. And there’s been some good scientific work on this. Here are two strategies that, based on the evidence, seem promising. - Vox

In Praise Of Monotony

As one gets older and realizes that most of life’s good stuff is contained between two ledger entries, one sees that if it weren’t for dreams, for stories and for art, for inventing personas and writing books through their hands and eyes, life would be insufferable. - 3 Quarks Daily

The World Now Has So Much Data, Scientists Had To Invent New Measures For It

Yotta (24 zeroes) was the largest prefix in the metric system before the new additions. Now, the Earth's mass can be said to be about 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. The sun can be said to be about 2,000 quettagrams rather than 2,000,000,000 yottagrams. - NPR

How AI Will Take The Jobs Of Millions Of Creative Workers

As each new purpose-built AI system comes online, the work for less productive humans will evaporate practically overnight. - Shelly Palmer

Working More Does Not Equal Being More Successful

Studies on the four-day work week prove it, too. "Instead of seeing time as a vacuum that needs to be filled, what might it look like if we considered that high performance is, in part, the result of work not done?" - Fast Company

The Leap Second Is Coming To An End

Why? "Modern global computing systems have become more tightly intertwined and more reliant on hyper-precise timing, sometimes to the billionth of a second. Adding the extra second heightens the risk." - The New York Times

The Power And Joy Of Artists’ Fierce Resistance To Hitler’s Fascism

The stories of the Rote Kapelle group "show the power of joy, creativity, and love in the fight against the compliance, fear, and silence upon which fascism still depends." - Hyperallergic

The Luxury Of Believing That Nothing Is True (Tired Yet?)

 Thinking that some things are true would no longer be an unquestioned assumption: we would understand why we ought to think that some things are true. - Aeon

We’ve Reduced Communication To Stories (And That’s A Problem)

There is a growing trend in American culture of what the literary theorist Peter Brooks calls “storification.” We’ve relied too heavily on storytelling conventions to understand the world around us, which has resulted in a “narrative takeover of reality” that affects nearly every form of communication. - The Atlantic

How AI Is Being Used In Creative Work

AI-generated content can be of higher quality than content created by humans, due to the fact that AI models are able to learn from a large amount of data and identify patterns that humans may not be able to see. This can result in more accurate and informative content. - Harvard Business Review

Can We Be Done With The Idea Of Longtermism?

Longtermism is a technocratic dream that purports to give some of the wealthiest people in the world the ability to plan the far future of humanity according to their personal whims. It is hubris. - New Statesman

Why Do We Value Consistency? Consistently Wrong Isn’t A Good Outcome

Consistency isn’t of value, in and of itself. If the outcomes are bad, the fact that they were arrived at by employing a consistent decision-making process doesn’t improve the outcomes themselves at all! - 3 Quarks Daily

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