Andrea H
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Andrea H
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Class factotum. History nerd. Constant reader. Liberal AF. It's Hobbits we shall be in 2025.
Grrrrr.
Once pitched, based on several FEDERAL studies, cost savings on ink (500 page manuals x biweekly x 200 locations) if we'd switch font from TNR (we did). But legibility ALONE was/ is worth it. Tiny gods, but these people are buffoons. 90% certain Calibri was the most efficient at the time.
December 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Next best time is now
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Me, too.! It makes me so happy for them to be all organized. I had a lot of dupes and xyplorer app was amazing for searching by file type.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you know you can't do it... why do it in front of a camera? Magical thinking or self delusion?
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Kloudnote has: headphone jack, will read you your books, can read a ton of file types, and do good ACR of your notes for search. Plus it'll hold a ton of stuff. And help keep me off my phone.

I read very fast; I want to try a huge screen. It's 10".

Will look at Boox, too.
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
(Any PDF app recs, I didn't mean e reader recs.

MY kingdom for an EDIT button!)
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I am looking at a Kloudnote (no AI) e ink reader.

Would love any recommendations.
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What a crap headline
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'd no idea about the Davinci surgery robot, so it's super cool that it's funded and exists. Though AI+ ads/ articles for things I know it actually can't do reliably is eating oxygen/ attn/ awareness from the Davinci robot- first I've heard of it, yet I see 200+ AI mentions daily that are vaporware.
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
That movie is so hilarious. It holds up. Sometimes I show my teen old movies & its more 'WTAF, mom'. I really remembered Strange Brew being hilarious.... and its more of a chuckle kinda film.
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"allowing deceased infants to remain unnamed is strongly related to higher levels of infant mortality. It is interesting to observe that the rate of not naming a child peaked in the 1860s, at a time when the overall infant mortality rate declined a bit. "
digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcont...
digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I wish people today realized that 1 of 2 children used to die before we had vaccination.

In fact, a high % of families didn't name kids until they made it past 1. That's why they are always saying, 'the baby' in old novels.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
No wrinkles at all! :)
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Also, I don't think you can ignore the resonance that most of us would champion is edifying products and workflows in the opposite direction of enshittification. Customer and employee sat scores for systems and companies need to be part of an eval of company success metrics.
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You write about things not feeling so hollow .... by suggesting AI is part of a helpful solution to that?

Planet killing, no safety railings, IP thieving, can't even say "I do not know", "I cannot do that", or "I am wrong AI"? No, thanks.
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I love how they run around more like starlings in their murmurations, with often no relation to where the ball is or where adult players would be focused
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Then she found a small clearing

surrounded by firs,

and she stopped…and she heard

what the trees said to her.

And she sat there for hours

not wanting to leave,

for the forest said nothing

it just let her breathe.

(Breathe, Becky Hemsley)
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM