The Librarian Is Still Better Than the Search Box
Search engines are getting better at answers. Librarians remain unusually good at something harder: figuring out what question you were actually trying to ask.
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FIELD NOTES FROM THE FEED
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Field notes from an internet becoming easier to fill and harder to trust. AI slop, algorithm bait, fake authority, corporate goo, and the occasional thing still worth paying attention to.
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Repair Is the Opposite of Slop
Slop culture teaches us to replace, refresh, and move on. Repair culture keeps alive a different idea: that objects contain labor, knowledge, memory, and sometimes another life if someone is willing to do the work.
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The Restaurant With a Bad Website Is Probably Fine
The internet taught us to confuse polish with quality. But a bad website can hide an extraordinary restaurant, and a beautiful website only means something when the real experience is just as good.
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The City Just Told the Machine to Wait Outside
New York City has imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for students in 2-K through 8th grade. The deeper story is not anti-tech panic. It is a rare institutional decision to let childhood, not inevitability, set the pace.
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Not Slop: The Case for Making Something Slowly
Friction has become something every product wants to remove. Some kinds of work become valuable because friction stayed in the room.
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