There are plenty of reasonable grounds on which to criticize the Frankfurt School. Why resort to delusional fantasies?
There are plenty of reasonable grounds on which to criticize the Frankfurt School. Why resort to delusional fantasies?
Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism — in the world of the film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another
Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism — in the world of the film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another
To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a story in common might well prove fatal
To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a story in common might well prove fatal
Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on...
Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on YouTube for “thinking and building” called Claude FM. “Made and curated by musicians.”
How to Heal People with Science Fiction
A new healthpunk movement aims to teach physicians to use their imaginations The post How to Heal People with Science Fiction appeared first on Nautilus.
CrankGPT . "Just a hand crank, a little computer,...
CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reas
Here’s Why Our Walking Gets Slower as We Age
And the best ways to prevent it The post Here’s Why Our Walking Gets Slower as We Age appeared first on Nautilus.
On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness . "The...
On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness. “The wellness industry loves rest [because] rest can be sold, because rest promises a return.” But: “[Idleness] does not promise to make you better at anyt
Donald Trump Is Accidentally Speeding the Green Transition
One of President Donald Trump’s top-tier fixations is to heap ridicule on both climate science and all projects committed to combating the global climate crisis. In a to the United Nations General As
The Financial Media Is Failing to Inform Investors on Private Credit Redemptions
The financial media has been amplifying alarming headlines about redemption requests at private credit funds — for instance, reporting that the Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX) faced a 17% re
Dave Eggers’s Long Game Pays Off
Leanne Ogasawara at the Pittsburgh Review of Books: One of the most anticipated books of the year, Dave Eggers’ new novel Contrapposto was twenty years in the making and draws on the author’s own back
Paintings of an Architectural Apocalypse
I (weirdly?) love Amy Casey’s paintings of buildings in peril — being swallowed by the sea, being flung into the sky by wind. There’s an element of the Kowloon Walled City to Casey’s work, as well
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Israel’s Buffer Defense Quandary
Israel's pursuit of security buffer zones reflects a rational response to decades of military threats, terrorism, and geographic vulnerability. Yet tactical success does not necessarily produce strate
The revenge of Claude Mythos
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Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Yascha Mounk at his own website: Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and human psychology. You are n
The Diversification Test
How to stress test your portfolio. The post The Diversification Test appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Everything Wrong With the 2026 World Cup . "By far...
Everything Wrong With the 2026 World Cup. “By far the most grave of those is a World Cup host starting a war against one of the participant nations, as happened with the USA’s attack on Iran at the en
What’s your team’s path to the World Cup title?
And which group-stage matches are actually worth buying tickets to?
In Hawaii, Uber Is Creating a Tax Shelter for Itself
Uber, the popular ride-hailing app, has amassed billions of dollars in an alleged dark money slush fund that the company could use not only to fund its robotaxi programs but also to sidestep taxes, ac
See the First-Ever Photos of Cozumel’s Mysterious Dwarf Fox
Many believed the tiny fox had gone extinct The post See the First-Ever Photos of Cozumel’s Mysterious Dwarf Fox appeared first on Nautilus.
Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
OR: The Great Switcheroo
Yesterday Was a Good Day
Yesterday, Ollie and I hiked up to Delta Lake (via Lupine Meadows Access) in Grand Teton National Park. It was perhaps a bit aggressive given my current lack of fitness, my non-acclimation to the alti
How warehouses work and “The Taco Turn”
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The Best Politician In A Generation
You won’t believe how low big tech has stooped in their slime campaign against Alex Bores
TIL about variant sudoku puzzles , "sudoku with...
TIL about variant sudoku puzzles, “sudoku with strange rules like thermometers, ratio dots, cages, and other things that you’re probably already confused by”.
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
The post The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI appeared first on NOEMA.
Kill Dick Attempts the Great OxyContin Novel
Los Angeles is a city of ten million people, each of us rubbing our eyes, filtering our water, paying our parking tickets. Doing our daily back-and-forths on the freeways, trying to outrun whatever re
Why Conflict Feels Constant Now
John Last at Noema: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of war. Threats of annexation and domi
The excellent Scene on Radio podcast is back with a new...
The excellent Scene on Radio podcast is back with a new season on The News. “Just about everyone is mad at the media, and Americans seem helpless to solve our problems, in large part because we have n
The 50 Essential Western Films
I pick the definitive movies in the genre. Here's the first (of three) installments.
Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia
DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a cause of their Late Pleistocene decline The post Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia appeared first on Nautilus.
PELE International Football Rankings ⚽
What happens when you blend 150+ years of soccer history with player market values into a brand-new model? Rankings, ratings and match projections for all 211 FIFA teams.
Financial Speculators See Big Opportunities in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s recent is often presented as a story of recovery from a two-decade-long economic and fiscal . Accordingly, after years marked by austerity, hurricanes, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the ar
Why She Won't Let You Buy Her a Drink
The Psychology of Obsession (2026)
Cited 9 June 2026: Europe’s ‘exceptional’ heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations ‘at risk’
Welcome to Cited, your essential guide to new climate research. In the news SPRING HEATWAVE:... The post Cited 9 June 2026: Europe’s ‘exceptional’ heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations ‘at r
Compression is Intelligence
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Dogs Could Be Humanity’s Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species
A new trick for Fido—finding spotted lanternfly eggs The post Dogs Could Be Humanity’s Best Friend in the Fight Against This Invasive Species appeared first on Nautilus.
My Notes on the Progression from Context to Prompt to Harness engineering in making GPT LLMs Useful: (TUESDAY) MAMLMs
The Age of Harness Engineering: taming the stochastic parrots before they eat your sead-corn codebase. We’ve scaled the models and blown out the context windows—and discovered that reliability lives s
Liberties
Liberties is a young (less than five years old) intellectual journal that’s based in Washington, D.C.
Under Right to Record Act, People Could Sue Federal Agents for First Amendment Violations
Proof of eroding rights: new legislation is necessary to shore up the First Amendment right to record, typically of officials behaving badly.
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