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Gifts and Graces - Pray As You Go
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Gifts and graces - Pray As You Go
Welcome to the Saturday Examen. Today we celebrate the feast of the Visitation, when Mary travelled to visit her cousin Elizabeth after receiving the message of the angel Gabriel and sang her Magnificat in praise of God’s saving power. Dur...

Well put, the “averaging effect of #AI.”
What’s the equivalent for writing? That’s what’s on my mind recently. Sure, keep your style. But do we need smth else? Add more styles, punctuation hacks, whatnot?
h…

Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect
Copycats, unrealistic expectations, and budget cuts are AI’s gifts to graphic artists.

A profile of NFL reporter Jordan Schultz, whom some accuse of trading on family wealth as the son of Starbucks' Howard Schultz to get access to players (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)

Trips, gifts, scoops: The billionaire’s son driving fellow NFL reporters mad
His dad is billionaire Howard Schultz. His passion is NFL news. Why are other reporters so mad?

Some of you ... may have decided that, this year, you're going to celebrate
it the old-fashioned way, with your family sitting around stringing
cranberries and exchanging humble, handmade gifts, like on "The Waltons".
Well, you can forget it. If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt,
the economy would collapse overnight. The government would have to
intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving,
which would s…

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

Imagine being Norway and charging your citizens for *gifts* they receive. :drool: