Thin friction and thicker walls

Civilized culture is based on a thin sort of friction. You don’t yell at the library, act boorish at a restaurant or hassle a minor celebrity at the supermarket. It’s just not done. The result of these human layers and inferences are cues and norms that add up to a connected, generative society. Add selfish

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Jetpack 16.3 WordPress Plugin Update Is A Winner via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Jetpack announced the release of version 16.3, a major update that adds three new blocks, expands existing features, improves accessibility and security, and reorganizes settings to bring related controls together in the user interface. Three New Blocks That Add Useful Functionalities Jetpack 16.3 introduces three new blocks that make it easier to showcase video content, help visitors discover videos,…

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Our genie problem

The djinn go back millennia, powerful and elusive creatures of the supernatural. They show up across time and culture. Three hundred years ago, Charles Perrault retold a short story about a headstrong woodcutter and his wife. On being granted three wishes from Jupiter (archetype for the genie of legend), he accidentally blurts out that he’d

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