Love-all, attention zero

Hey 👋 — today's free half serves up a tennis ace, a word-game underdog, and a sobering read on what all our scrolling is doing to our brains.

Tennis rallies poster generator

Someone took the Match Charting Project's painstakingly logged rally data — every shot, every angle, every unforced error — and turned it into poster art. Pick a match point, and the generator renders the rally as a clean, exportable diagram you can grab as PNG, JPG, or SVG. It's a neat reminder that sports data, usually flattened into stats and win probabilities, has real geometry hiding in it — you just need the right lens to see the rally as a shape rather than a scoreline (via HN discussion).

18 Words

A daily word game with a twist: you get a fixed set of letters and a ticking clock, and the challenge is finding a word — any word — before time runs out. Practice and archive modes mean you're not locked to just today's puzzle, which is a small mercy for those of us who discover these things three weeks late (via HN discussion).

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books

An Atlantic piece, flagged via Techmeme, traces a straight line from early internet distraction through smartphones and social feeds to generative AI's latest contribution: making it even easier to skip the book and get the gist. The argument isn't that any single technology killed deep reading — it's that each one shaved a little more off our patience for sustained attention, and AI is just the newest, most efficient shaver (unverified).

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