Kara Swisher is often my favourite guest on shows, whether I subscribe to them or not. On What Now? with Trevor Noah, Swisher hits a hundred great takes out of the park about AI, tech, dating, and time travel.
Look at these cool Christmas trees in Japan 🎄
From Stephen Adubato at Default.blog:
“Live radio is one of the last remaining spaces for people of influence to be in dialogue with everyday people in real time. The fact that it’s live and uncensored allows for a level of rawness that interactions between “influencers” and their followers on social media—which is easier to curate and control—doesn’t allow for, making the listener feel more tapped into the real lives of other everyday people.”
From Dynomight, a pretty succinct example of so much of what feels wrong—Make Product Worse, get money:
But it doesn’t explain why all longevity stuff is so bad. Why don’t honest people tell the true story and drive all the hucksters out of business? I suspect the answer is that unless you have a lot of scientific training and do a lot of research, it’s basically impossible to figure out just how huckstery all the hucksters really are.
A great example of the total inverse of the previous story, Timothy Monbleau on the new remakes of Dragon Quest I & II:
Through these threads, Dragon Quest I HD-2D focuses on one of the oldest themes in jRPG history: don’t give up hope. The solution for many of these struggles isn’t to go out and take on the world without aid; instead, people move forward by focusing on what they can do, which in turn creates the conditions for the hero to succeed.
For anyone curious of how lofi girl got so popular, see Nicole Carpender at 404media:
Williams says the music itself can often become secondary to the familiar, comforting vibe for Lofi Girl listeners. “Lofi Girl appeals most to young music fans who love and consume lots of different kinds of music, but appreciate the Lofi Girl specifically because it gives them something predictable in an evermore chaotic world,” she said. “Musical discovery via the Lofi Girl is certainly possible, but you’re unlikely to encounter anything truly surprising or cortisol-spiking, and I think—whether one sees this as a positive or not—that’s why it has become so popular.”
Finally, this is a day I could absolutely replicate next time I’m in Kyoto.
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