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It’s a touch damp out there today. It’s Monday. everybody’s getting back on X The Everything App. And by “everybody” I mean: Platformer writer and Kevin Roose podcasting bestie Casey Newton, with evident and well-earned shame, because he feels that “it’s important I engage with [the AI crowd], even if doing so makes me feel like I’m coworking inside a Port-a-Potty.” Rusty Foster https://www.todayintabs.com/p/desiring-machines Nope. Hannah Hauxwell (1926-2018) lived alone and maintained a farm “in almost unendurable conditions of farmers in the High Pennines in winter,” notes a film producer. Upon the deaths of her immediate family, then 35-year old Hannah took over management of the farm and made it her life dwelling in solitude.Hannah came to media attention in 1972 when a random hiker told a researcher about Hannah. She was the subject of successive television documentaries chronicling her solitary life in the Northshire wilds: “Too Long A Winter” (1972), “A Winter Too Many,”…