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Let's Read About The Lutanist

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

The most popular link last time was this behind-the-scenes look at Selena Gomez's mental health startup, with this piece about Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir second.

  1. A lovely obituary for Juliet Congreve, a British librarian who did a lot to aid and improve the adoption of computing by the library system.
  2. How Publishing Has Changed Since 2015. The headlines: audiobooks matter now, the literary media ecosystem has died, and it is possible for authors to bypass Amazon for sales (if they have a Brandon Sanderson-level of fame).
  3. I am not usually much of a meme enjoyer, but this one tickled me.
  4. Before you could cut ties by unfriending, untagging and blocking, if you wanted to remove an erstwhile BFF from your photos, you had to get physical.
  5. I have been trying really hard to keep an open mind on the — gestures broadly — AI stuff. It's getting more difficult, though, and I do think this post by an admitted "AI hater" makes some good points.
  6. Never mind! Let's read about the lutanist who has been playing to people in Central Park for nearly half a century.
  7. Bless the videogame archivists. They have now successfully preserved all 54 previously lost clickwheel iPod games.
  8. Why do they keep adapting Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but overlooking Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park? Probably because these more nuanced books don't easily transform into a blockbuster rom com.
  9. This piece gets full marks for the pun in the headline — "Stew Kids on the Block" — and then extra credit for being an interesting look at the long history of TikTok's latest culinary obsession, the perpetual stew.
  10. An interview with a 23-year-old who spends months at a time making perfect recreations of Dutch golden age art in Minecraft.
  11. A better way of discovering new music on Spotify, which lets you set genre and chronological parameters and doesn't keep feeding you the same five songs that are currently popular.
  12. An index of old robots.
  13. What Happened to the Bowling Shirt Guy?

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