Comprehension Declines As The Number Of Hyperlinks In A Document Increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of

Image by Bill Watterson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas

"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis

Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.

No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.

— Adelaide Anne Procter

The 2012 solar storm that missed Earth by nine days.

"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown 

Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-snake-how-trump-appr…/…. 

“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo by Nicole Ottawa.

"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.

“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous

"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen