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alcinnz
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The Death of Sherlock Holmes: a dated uprising https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250915/ #Essay #Books #Book
The Death of Sherlock Holmes: a dated uprising https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250915/ #Essay #Books #Book
My thoughts on the ethics of LLMs https://gregstoll.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/my-thoughts-on-the-ethics-of-llms/ #AI, #Essay, #LLM
"The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and color our cultural understanding of typists’ labor.
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“It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.” And many women did [.]"
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
#essay #writing #typewriter #literature #books #WomensHistory #history
Richard MacManus
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"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."
"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Delighted to report that my essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and Speculative Insight have made it free to read for the voting period. So, be my guest (and BSFA members please consider voting for it).
#galadriel #lotr #tolkien #bookstodon #fantasy #sff #fairyqueen #bsfaawards2026 #bsfa #bsfaawards #essay
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/galadriel
Delighted to report that my essay 'Should Galadriel have taken the Ring?' has been nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Short Non Fiction and Speculative Insight have made it free to read for the voting period. So, be my guest (and BSFA members please consider voting for it).
#galadriel #lotr #tolkien #bookstodon #fantasy #sff #fairyqueen #bsfaawards2026 #bsfa #bsfaawards #essay
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/galadriel
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"But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines where isolated women could dial in and get an update from their community.
This was damned at the time by the Telegram Men as futile and frivolous, but that didn’t stop it from happening."
https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a
"But, as Michèle Martin documents in her paper “The Rulers of the Wires”, middle-class women’s “‘delinquent’ telephone activities” took the Telegram Men by surprise. This delinquency included not just social telephone calls in the afternoon, but planned and impromptu meet-ups on party lines where isolated women could dial in and get an update from their community.
This was damned at the time by the Telegram Men as futile and frivolous, but that didn’t stop it from happening."
https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a
Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
#HackerNews #Slouching #Towards #Bethlehem #Joan #Didion #1967 #Literature #Classic #Essay
Kristie
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A few thoughts ahead of the piece of writing I’m releasing on Friday.
Psychological research links revenge fantasies to unresolved injustice and denied agency. They’re common. In women, they’re more often internalised and read, by others and by women themselves, as personal or moral failure.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Women #Psychology #Scotland #UK #Essay
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A few thoughts ahead of the piece of writing I’m releasing on Friday.
Psychological research links revenge fantasies to unresolved injustice and denied agency. They’re common. In women, they’re more often internalised and read, by others and by women themselves, as personal or moral failure.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Women #Psychology #Scotland #UK #Essay
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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In this essay we will discuss the true case for baskets and how all baskets support *widdwe bebes*…
#research #essay #cats #bebe #cat #caturday #basketcase #casestudy #tedtalks #blog #blessedconsciouslife
Kristie
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After the response to my posts about nature cure, and the conversation they opened about the myths surrounding it, I wanted to reshare this deeply personal piece.
It’s about choosing permanence over performance. About the profound impact drystone walling and physical labour had on my relationship with my body and male desire.
This essay is adapted from my book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-build-will-outlast-every-man-who-ever-wanted-me
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Essay #Scotland #Drystone #Women #News #UK
After the response to my posts about nature cure, and the conversation they opened about the myths surrounding it, I wanted to reshare this deeply personal piece.
It’s about choosing permanence over performance. About the profound impact drystone walling and physical labour had on my relationship with my body and male desire.
This essay is adapted from my book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-build-will-outlast-every-man-who-ever-wanted-me
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Essay #Scotland #Drystone #Women #News #UK
Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/
#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience
In this essay we will discuss the true case for baskets and how all baskets support *widdwe bebes*…
#research #essay #cats #bebe #cat #caturday #basketcase #casestudy #tedtalks #blog #blessedconsciouslife