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This in-depth podcast from American Public Media sheds light on this phenomenon and helped spark the re-evaluation of many popular K-6 reading curricula:

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

And yet for thousands of years we managed just fine with paper & ink.

Sure, there's a difference between stream-of-consciousness note-taking/idea capture of brain babble and composing cohesive thoughts in a coherent manner.

But the nice thing is that a journal can be either or both, often at the same time. I think the most important thing about writing a daily journal is that the act of writing things down itself is a way of processing the thoughts and attempting to make sense of them.

I'm talk to myself too much to even attempt an audio or video journal. Speech to text certainly has it's usefulness, but I can't help thinking that video journaling borders more on performance than capturing/expanding/exploring ideas and thoughts. I'm sure there's lots of filmmakers and documentarians who'll disagree with me on that, though.

And dictating to a device that can provide accurate transcription such as an AI-enabled virtual assistant is just another way to get to the end product of a searchable, indexable digital text. I'd count this as keeping a written journal. Sure, the price of entry is higher than a pencil and a pad of newsprint paper, but it's written text.

Writing is cheap, portable, and available to anyone who can produce and process written script; the poorest child in the poorest country can be taught to write their ideas in a journal. Video is expensive: not just the personal device & storage account, but the entire infrastructure to support uploading, storing, and maintaining an always-accessible archive. It is also difficult to revisit video to search for previous ideas and thoughts, etc. Text is easy to index and search both in digital and analog formats (at least, if one gives forethought to indexing one's journals during or shortly after writing a journal entry).

This is the best link on this site today. Thank you.

The U.S. is capable of building transit infra. We are incapable of overcoming multiple nesting, competing, and ensnared layers of local, regional, state, and federal bureaucracies to actually get them built, even when there is a taxpayer desire/mandate for such projects.

"former"

Thanks!

It is today. It used to not be. Blame Reagan when he was governor of California: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-day-the-purpose-of-col...

How does your extension differ from Draftback?(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/draftback/nnajoiem...)

Just curious.

Want a safe flight? That'll be an extra €50.

I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a child is a horrible experience and you never really get over it; time moves on but the emptiness persists. I wish you and your family well.

Calibre can do this: https://calibre-ebook.com

Here's the help page on setting up your own content server: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/#the-calibre-content-server

Yes, this exactly: sometimes I don't write things down to review them later, but write them down to remember them now.

That Pet Rock manual is still included when you buy a Pet Rock: https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Rock-Authentic-Approved-Original/...

That's such an ungodly pairing of actors, thank God Watterson walked away from it all.

I can't recommend the Zettlekasten Method enough: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/

You can do it with index cards or you can use software to practice the method and grow your note collection. I now prefer Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com) after using Joplin (https://joplinapp.org), which are both FOSS.

One of the core strategies of the Zettlekasten Method is to link notes to each other. That's how knowledge grows: connections and synthesis (internalization/application of the connections)

Here's a 3-year-old video on the method that serves as a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZHuWLA09M

Just wait till they get on about spoons.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Ah, Unilad.com, one of the most trusted of news sites!

When every single link on the page leads to another page on the same base domain, you know you are dealing with a site that pedals in nothing but clickbait.

Move along, nothing to see here.

This is MacOS specific: once I learned you can drag & drop folders from the Finder into the terminal window to get the full directory path, that changed everything.

If there was one thing I was guaranteed to mess up, it was directory paths. That made me 100% more comfortable with using the terminal and now I don't have any qualms when I'm on my Linux boxes.

Two words: Cannibal Pigs.

http://davegilson.com/scarry.html

"Instantly turn our developers' PCs into gaming consoles" is more like it.

Cool logo, though.

I question the population focus and it's applicability to Western, specifically American, diets. The study focused on 310 diabetic patients in Saudi Arabia. I don't think it is going out on a limb to say that there are dietary differences between the typical Saudi Arabian diet and the typical American diet, especially in the overwhelming reliance on ultra-processed, pre-packaged foods in the U.S.

Perhaps this might have more applicability to diabetic patients in Europe, specifically those who follow the Mediterranean diet due to socio-geographic reasons.

I have a cheap Lenovo Chromebook Flex 3 with a MediaTek MT8183 processor that I picked up for under $79 at a BestBuy Black Friday sale. I run Firefox ESR on it with no problems in the Linux container, no flatpak needed. Here's all you need:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa

sudo apt-update

sudo apt install firefox-esr

FYI, downloading a file results in it being watermarked on every page (including covers) with the URL of the file, user name ("guest" if not logged in to an Internet Archive account), and date of download.

This happened to both PDF and EPUB files I downloaded. Woe to those who use screen readers.

Exactly. Why does everyone assume mobile means iOS/iPadOS only?

It's called an oral exam. They are actually brutal.

There needs to be a way to do this same thing with MediaTek and Snapdragon ARM-based Chromebooks. MediaTek and Qualcomm need to let their firmware and bootloaders allow ARM-based Linux distros to be installed on bare metal. Too many cheap Chromebooks that schools purchase use ARM-processors and get consigned to the e-cycle bin when they can continue to be useful low-end machines if only we could easily get pure Linux on them.