LINKDING

<blockquote>“Abelique told me not to pick up my phone again until after lunch was over.” “Who?” Margo said. “It’s this new app for better living.” “I love the idea of an app that tells you to put your phone down more. For your own good,” Margo said, her eyes glinting. “You should try it!” June said. “You get the first thirty days free!” “And after that, you have to pay someone to nag you to use your phone less?” “It’s more than that.” June took a bite out of her tuna melt. “For one thing, you also agree to occasionally nag other people to put their phones down.” Margo and I both laughed, and June flushed. But she did not, I noticed, touch her phone again until we were ready to leave the diner.</blockquote> ➤ not quite sure what I think of it, not quite sure what it's saying about AI and algorithms, and not quite sure it knows either, but it was interesting to read

<blockquote>Upon setting up her Little Free Library, Meigan develops an unexpected friendship with a mysterious book borrower.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It feels like ghost stories should mean something, but it’s not at all clear what. I managed to get about a hundred pages out of the question, “What do these mean, anyway?” when I wrote my doctoral dissertation to get my PhD in Folklore, all without reaching an actual conclusion. My mother helpfully pointed that out when she read the manuscript. “If I give them a real answer, they’ll just complain about it,” I said. “So just tell me, Leah,” she said. “What do you think ghost stories mean?” “I think they’re the manifestation of people’s desire for answers about death and eternity,” I said. “But I could be totally wrong, especially since there’s a whole category of ghost stories that don’t seem to have anything to do with identifiable dead people.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is a food blog, not a disease blog, but of course the rumors all over about bird flu are making me nervous. I don’t know about you, but I deal with anxiety by cooking. </blockquote> ➤ the chronicles of a family dealing with an epidemic as told through a food blog. This worked REALLY WELL and by the end I was SO ATTACHED to everyone in the story and ughghgh I hope everything does work out for them in the end

➤ heyheyrenay's summary: a helpful A.I. tries to fix the lives of humans. Really likes cat pictures