Your RCS conversations are now fully end-to-end encrypted submitted by /u/MishaalRahman

Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeRCS messages in Google’s Messages app will now be fully end-to-end-encrypted by default, Google announced on Tuesday. It’s a major change that keeps messages private from Google and the carriers, and it marks a big milestone in Google’s ongoing efforts with RCS. Alongside Tuesday’s announcement, Google announced t…

LPT Request: If I stutter quite a bit, and talk very fast, how can I properly get others to understand me in conversations? submitted by /u/Landest

Short Conversations with Poets: Mary Austin Speaker A few months before Mary Austin Speaker moved away from New York, her city of many years, she started writing poetry on her train commute across the Manhattan Bridge. The result, called The Bridge, is emblematic of Speaker’s buoyant, radiant poetry, at once involved in a community—in this case the community of commuters in a given random subway …

Wireless earbuds can actually help you hear conversations better Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeEarlier this week, a reader contacted me with a dilemma: his wife has always had super sharp hearing when it comes to environmental / ambient noise. She can “hear a gnat blink at 1,000 yards. Forty years ago, she could hear electronic clocks running,” he said. And so they’ve been in search of a solution that would…

Google Messages now lets you pin up to five conversations submitted by /u/d-pyron

Short Conversations with Poets: Daniel Brock Johnson Daniel Brock Johnson’s second book of poetry, Shadow Act: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley, is a representation of the relationship between two friends. On the one hand, the journalist James Foley. On the other, the poet. It’s as if the two men were bound together so deeply and eerily that their lives are each other’s shadows. Foley’s adventu…

LPT: don’t try to script conversations beforehand. “Improvised” talk is more natural, convincing, and genuine. Whether it’s with socializing, flirting, sales, or just about anything to do with dialogue, don’t try to map out what will be said as in: “I will say X, he will say Y, and I will respond with Z”. It almost never goes the way you imagine or “plan” for the other person to say. Even if the person does magically say exactly as you planned it won’t b…

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Short Conversations with Poets: Eric McHenry Over two books, both published by The Waywiser Press, Eric McHenry has built up a world of poetry that’s at once lighthearted and serious, cantankerous and comical. It’s populated with lullabies and villanelles and references that defy easy category—ranging from, for instance, Kansas history to early hip-hop to baseball to Sam Cooke lyrics to tr…

Short Conversations with Poets: Michael Earl Craig Across his first five—and now six—collections of poetry, Michael Earl Craig has developed a poetry as whimsical as it is serious, diffusing the gravitas not by leaving it out, but by building out a surface—a texture in language—that feels disarming, direct, omnivorous in its references, and impishly playful. Parataxis is Craig’s friend, but more…

LPT: If you want to stand out to someone, actively listen and engage in their personal conversations. Most people don’t. This probably sounds really self-explanatory and obvious but it really isn’t and is a skill that most people lack and has to be practiced to be perfected. People do a really great job of listening to only about 5%-10% of what other people say to them. Most of the time we try to think of what we want to say next instead of actually participating…

Short Conversations with Poets: Paisley Rekdal Paisley Rekdal’s work is urban, the poetry an explosion of language, the ranging cast of mind in the spirit of Albert Goldbarth or Linda Gregerson. Like these poets her lines are made of long hypotactic sentences, linking image and language on a string of wondrous beads, leaping in and through those long lines like C. K. Williams. Rekdal infuses…