post: The spirit of the Lord is upon the waters…

On artful lexical search as search engines move toward being AI-driven “answer engines.” Mojeek may to some degree be trying to re-package a weakness as a strength, but there are some good points and some good advice here.

This from Derek Thompson’s “The Anti-Social Century”: >Practically the entire economy has reoriented itself to allow Americans to stay within their four walls. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to remote work. It is something far more totalizing—something more like “remote life.” He notes that “loneliness” might be the wrong word for our social malady, since we’re mostly choosing to avoid interacting with our flesh-and-blood brethren. Chatting (not talking) on the phone seems to satisfy the social itch without the inconveniences.