#real-world — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #real-world, aggregated by home.social.
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#Bumble is shifting away from the swipe feature and towards #realworld #events to attract #GenZ users. The company is focussing on #group #meetups through its new app, #Plans, and is developing a new interaction model to replace the swipe entirely. This new model aims to generate more immediate interactions and better outcomes, mimicking real-life interactions. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/bumble-teases-a-swipe-free-future-as-it-doubles-down-on-irl-meetups/?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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The Importance Of Trusted [spatial] Data In The Real World - And How Geovation Is Evolving
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/how-geovations-role-is-evolving <-- shared technical/overview article
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https://geovation.uk/ <-- shared Geovation home page
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H/T @gareth Sumner | Head of Geovation, Leading innovation, connecting innovators with real world problems and championing design thinking
“… How can technology 👨💻 create meaningful impact in the real world? 🌍
Today that question feels more relevant than ever.
While much of the conversation around AI focuses on digital tools and experiences, what I really care about is its potential to improve outcomes in the physical world.
That's where trusted, foundational data becomes critical – and it has become our north star as Geovation continues to evolve…”
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“Geovation is Ordnance Survey (OS)'s innovation programme, pioneered more than 15 years ago to foster a geospatial ecosystem for startups to solve real world challenges. Now its head, Gareth Sumner, considers the importance of trusted data and AI in today's world and how Geovation is evolving into a national data innovation and impact lab: a place where government data, entrepreneurial talent and real-world challenges come together…”
#Geovation #AI #machinelearning #innovation #usecase #appliedscience #AI #GeoAI #geospatialecosystem #startups #industrysupport #data #realworld #UK #LocationTech #SpatialInnovation #MappingTheFuture #TechStartups #InnovationHub #Entrepreneurship #FoundersUK #GIS #spatial #mapping #BritainMapped #MadeInUK
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Memoir (1949), This I Remember, ch. 20 “The Last Term: 1944–1945”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #accommodation #adaptation #facereality #life #living #realworld #realitycheck
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: (building a snowman) I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
HOBBES: Such as?
CALVIN: Procrastinating and rationalizing.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-15)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85252…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #education #excuse #homework #procrastination #rationalization #realworld #selfrationalization #skills #training
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#Design #Explorations
Colors your screen can’t show you · “You’ll feel crazy once you see it.” https://ilo.im/16dwpn_____
#Perception #Colors #ColorSpaces #Screens #RealWorld #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
#Stress of any kind doesn't peak and vanish.
Mental Emotional #Anxiety can increase your #EnergyExpenditure.
It floods our system until we are drowning in #Burnout .
#AcademicPressure , #PeerDynamics , #Workload , #StudyStruggles , #BehavioralShift , #CognitiveIssues are all #RealWorld problems .
#BrainBoost need not be Temporary .
Take Charge of your System NOW with #NouriaFit and its Integrated #StressTracking features .
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My final post on MTV Real World memories is that watching it became part of a Thursday ritual between me and my girlfriend at the time. After work, we would go to
Pellettieri Joes for their Thursday Lasagna special, then we would stop at the grocery store on the way home to pick up a can of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, and we would bake them, and watch The Real World while eating them.It is a fond memory.
#MTV #RealWorld #Memories #Ritual #Thursday #CinnamonRolls #FuckICE
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I watched this interview with Judd Winick (Real World season 3 San Francisco) and it brought back a whole lot of memories. It's not THAT long ago when this show aired but the world was SO different. At that time I had or was just getting my first internet/WWW dialup account (thank you Servtech) and this whole Pandora's Box of internet social media toxicity couldn't have even been imagined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyjdt_8CIzY
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What We Write About When We Write About Grief, Part Two
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
In last month’s post (“ What We Write About When We Write About Grief ”), I provided examples of authors depicting grief in three different genres: fiction, poetry, and memoir.
Most of the comments responding to the post focused on how credible or authentic (or not) the various excerpts were in describing what it felt like to grieve.
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Why?
Years ago, in my other life as a journalist, I interviewed Michael Jordan for a cover story for the magazine I worked for at the time. At the peak of his fame, shortly after his father was murdered, Jordan had quit basketball to try playing baseball. When I interviewed him, he had just made the sudden and surprising decision to return to basketball.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/10/why/#CRAFT #Writinglife #adviceforwriters #KathleenMcCleary #REALWORLD
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A Decade of Damage: Revisiting the Novel That Saved My Writing Career
Way, way back in 2011—a far more innocent time—my debut novel, Domestic Violets , was published. The book entered the world to several positive national reviews, a brief bit of gentle buzz, and, well…moderate sales. In other words, Domestic Violets did okay. Records were not set, yachts were not purchased, but, as far as I know, nobody lost their job over the thing. It was a small win followed by a sigh of relief.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/09/a-decade-of-damage-revisiting-the-novel-that-saved-my-writing-career/#REALWORLD #Writinglife #MatthewNorman #publishing #writinglife
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Balance is a Practice, Not a State
I am not a serious yogi.
This feels important to establish before I say anything else about yoga, because I don’t want you to picture somebody who wakes up at 5 a.m. to flow through an hour of sun salutations before practicing crow pose. Earnest respect for the people who do wake up at 5 a.m. for sun salutations and crow pose: you are built different than me.
The way I’m built is more like a ramshackle old rowboat. I float except for the times when I’m sinking. I do yoga except for the times when I don’t (there’s a joke about boat pose in here somewhere)(I hate boat pose). I write except for the times when I’m not writing.
But like the rowboat keeps bobbing in the waves until someone drags it to shore, I keep doing yoga, and I keep writing.
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What Makes Human Storytelling Human
Much on our minds nowadays is the issue of human-written versus machine-written fiction. There’s a lot to say about that, but for me it leads to a question: What actually makes human-written fiction human?
This matters not only in terms of readability. Machines already write well enough for many applications. Eventually machines will write fiction indistinguishable from human-written fiction, though it will be necessarily and always to some degree imitative. (So is some human-written fiction, frankly, if we’re honest.)…
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Where Are You, Muse?
Due to a technical error, Juliet’s post, which was originally published on May 18th, was not sent to our email subscribers. We are republishing the post today in order to reach those readers. Many thanks!
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A Draft With a Will of Its Own
You’re working through a draft and things happen that you didn’t plan—and you had a plan, or at least you thought you had one. A character is acting out of character. Imagery recurs when you write about a certain place. You’re questioning whether the story is the genre you thought it was when you began. You type out words that seem to have come from the ether.
If you’ve lived some shade of the above, have you wondered what it means when a story seems to have a will of its own?
We may feel frustrated over our grasp of the story. Why can’t we just write it to plan? We might even feel shame for losing a sense of control.
But what if these little blips on the radar aren’t so much signaling what’s lost as what’s possibly been found?
Meet Abductive Reasoning…
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Closing the Taste Gap
Jane Austen offers deep insights into human behavior, even in the person of her most minor and unlikeable characters. One seemingly throw-away line that has haunted me for years comes out of the mouth of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. While criticizing Elizabeth’s skill at the pianoforte, she remarks on her own history with the instrument, “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
On its face, her comment assumes a grand superiority and a certain tone-deafness. Does she really think her exalted social status translates to superior capacity, even in skills she’s never acquired? What makes her disparage Lizzy’s skill in the same breath that she invites her to come play more often in her home?
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What Other Art Forms Taught Me About Writing
I collect hobbies.
In true ADHD fashion, my interests are expansive, my search history littered with deep dives into any number of subjects, and my living space full to the brim with all the stuff one accumulates if they are, like me, attempting to fully live up to the idea of becoming a “Jack of all trades” (and master of none).
(Also, in truly circular fashion, one of the hobbies I’ve collected, much to my mother’s chagrin, is the hobby of collecting itself– books, but also various dolls (American Girl and Disney collectible dolls primarily), along with cute mini-backpacks, quirky overalls, and of course, supplies for all my non-collecting hobbies).
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Real World used to have a subscription music club, a CD a month. Some great releases, among others I first heard Dub Colossus, 9Bach, and these guys, Juju, on their releases. Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. Great players, infectious stuff. They were part of Robert Plant’s band a few years ago. #juju #music #RealWorld
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Beach Glass Writers Residency
Your book doesn’t need more time on the back burner. It needs a week.
Beach Glass Writers Residency offers an intimate, distraction-free creative sanctuary in Rogers Park, Chicago — steps from Lake Michigan — where writers come to do the work they can’t seem to do anywhere else.
Each residency week includes:
✦ 6 nights lodging
✦ Daily continental breakfast
✦ Individual coaching with a developmental editor
✦ Special programming with a guest author
✦ All residency amenities
Only 1–3 writers at a time. Real solitude. Real progress.
Weeks available: June through October ($995)
Is this the year you finally put your book first?
🔗 BeachGlassWritersResidency.com …
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What to Do When Someone Writes ‘Your’ Book
A few years ago, I was struggling to write a story. I had an incoherent outline and a few sample chapters and just couldn’t pull it together. Desperate, I texted my dear friend Jan O’Hara, who agreed to take a look. We batted ideas around for a bit, and I went back to work feeling much better.
Some months later, I mentioned the story—now much further along—to Jan, who sent me a panicked note back saying that she was also now working on a story and it had an unmistakable resemblance to mine. Scrupulously ethical, she offered to abandon hers if I thought it was too similar and sent a summary for me to read.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/22/what-to-do-when-someone-writes-your-book/#REALWORLD #BigMagic #dopplegangerbook #ElizabethGilbert #JanOHara
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Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/21/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-50/