The idea of "shared reading" sits at the crux of Fable, Warrior explains to Mashable. She cites the work of professor and literary scholar Josie Billington, who pioneered the concept of shared and social reading as an antidote to declining mental health. Warrior says reading for just 30 minutes a day can improve mental wellness — and "sharing that with others can foster a sense of community and belonging."
"I started Fable so that all of us can fill the micro-moments in our hectic lives with stories. Our mission is to deliver the world’s best social experience with exceptional stories, in service of mental wellness," she says, adding that she has always felt reading has been "powerful tool" for creativity, wellbeing, and growth. "I grew up in a small town in India, and books were a fuel for my creativity and imagination. The magic of words moves me."
Pretty much everything you could do on the web version, you can currently do it on the new macOS app, but perhaps the main reason why you might want to use a desktop client over the web version is support for synchronization. You can synchronize your files and folders with Proton Drive and ensure that they're all safe and encrypted. You also get a bunch of other features, such as end-to-end encryption for all your files (ensuring that not even Proton itself can access your files at any given moment) and a version history.
Physical cash is issued by governments (via central banks), whereas the units in your bank account are basically ‘digital casino chips’ issued by the likes of Barclays, HSBC and Santander. ‘Cashless society’ is a privatisation, in which power over payments is transferred to the banking sector. Every tap of a contactless card or Apple Pay triggers banks into moving these digital casino chips around for you. It gives them enormous power, revenue and data. They can share that data with governments but, more often than not, they’re using it for their own purposes (such as passing it through AI models to decide whether you get access to things or not).
By rejecting the story that cashless society is driven primarily from the bottom up, I sometimes get accused of being a conspiracy theorist. It’s not hard to imagine the outlines of a ‘conspiracy’ when you look at who benefits most from payments privatisation. Not only are Visa, Mastercard and the banking sector big beneficiaries, the fixation on digitisation also extends the power of Amazon and other corporate behemoths that are moving beyond the internet into the physical world via smart devices and automated stores that plug into digital finance systems. It’s a small jump to imagine how governments can piggyback on this digital enclosure to spy on us, or manipulate us.
20 GOTO 10 is a book written by a geek for geeks, and how numbers anchor and reveal the secrets of computing's past. It's also a game, a fun and engaging play on the rules of roleplay.
I wonder if Jedi need to charge their lightsabers every night.
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