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The growing lexicon of tone indicators, beyond helping people understand what’s sincere or what’s flirty, can feel, to the uninitiated, like another language. And at their most complex, tone indicators may veer into the patronizing.

Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?

nytimes.com

Approach information and information-processing devices with your eyes open.

Just Say No (To Content): Nietzsche’s Surprising “Information Diet”

arstechnica.com

Microsoft Windows Hacking: consumer computers in the ’90s were a pain because they all ran Windows and if you ever connected them to the Internet, there were so many ways to get hacked or systems degraded. This is far less of an issue now.

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

gwern.net

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