Luddite Dispatch 02
Notes from the Summer of Ludd
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Luddite Dispatch 01 - The Tyranny of the Short Form
Weekly events, and an essay 'The Tyranny of the Short Form', in celebration of our new (Longer-Form) Emails.
A Polemic Against Scrolling
No blogger wants to produce shallow fluff, and no reader want to do nothing but skim. Yet, because so many readers skim, writers feel forced to simplify; because the writing is simple, readers skim all the more. It's a destructive cycle – and at its root is scrolling.
A Better Penman's PDF Parser: Privacy-preserving conversion of Handwritten PDFs through Apple Shortcuts & Ollama
Or, 'Au thous swain'? Begone, Mathpix Misspellings!
Riddle Fortnightly No. 12
Of the 18th of November, 2024 Fortunately, the continuity of spacetime has resumed: the Fortnightly is back! In this edition, we have a round up of new E-ink and time-blocking tools, then an (unusually long) column with the Riddler’s take on “The Elite College Students Who Can’