Links #161

Matthias on the importance of curating the web in the age of AI. I agree. (Thus these link posts.) Isaac Kolding on how reading is good for you and how it expands your effective freedom. I also enjoyed the post on inefficient books and very much agree. BDM on how sometimes books are hard to read. “Being easy to read is not the only virtue a book must possess to be enjoyable. If something is not easy to read, that is not a sign that the reader is stupid. Sometimes it is the knowledge that you will need to return to a text over and over that forms the basis of your enjoyment. You are encountering something that cannot be grasped in a single experience.” Mat Marquis on the end of responsive images. “I’ve been waiting for fourteen years to write this article. Fourteen years to tell you about one relatively new addition to the way images work on the web. For you, just a handful of characters will mean improvements to the fundamental ergonomics of working with images. For users, it will…