The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one
The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one
Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness â potent though they may be â are just that: storiesÂ
Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness â potent though they may be â are just that: stories
AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averagenessÂ
AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness
Good news and bad news for Democratsâ Senate odds
The midterm landscape is becoming less predictable.
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.
What Is a Trillion, Really?
The sum is hard to comprehend The post What Is a Trillion, Really? appeared first on Nautilus.
Notes on the End of the $5 Uber Era of "AI": MONDAY MAMLMs
Hyperscalers are slamming on the brakes, metering âintelligence,â and discovering that someone still has to pay the datacenter bill. Anthropic chases profits, OpenAI fights for its life, Microsoft...
Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He's...
Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. Heâs still serving out his life sentence for, IMO, having absolutely nothing to do with the murder at the center of Netflixâs Making a Murderer.
Bad Third-Grade Behavior Could be a Preview of Educational Failure
Kids who can hold it together until the final bell may be primed for more academic success in life The post Bad Third-Grade Behavior Could be a Preview of Educational Failure appeared first on Nautilu
READING: Gunnar Myrdal: "Challenge to Affluence" (1963)
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. âHeâs endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial
Disclosure Day Is the Big Fat Spielberg Summer Movie We Need
Thereâs admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see  for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with
Telescope Ranchers
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other peopleâs telescopes in perfect conditions â ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bo
How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day
The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the fulcrum of our search for meaning â the yearning to make this brief lungful of life matter amid the breathless void of space and time â and
On Gustave Courbet Le Désespéré, or The Desperate Man
Brooks Riley at Art At First Sight: Thereâs probably no other painting that so perfectly mimes and memes our miserable zeitgeist than Gustave Courbetâs overwrought selfie from 1844. For whatever reaso
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
"While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity."
How to get out of bed . "There is no 28 point shot...
How to get out of bed. âThere is no 28 point shot in basketball. The only way to come back from a 27 point deficit is one shot at a time. Two points here. Two points there. A few three pointers sprink
Ask Not for Whom the Schumpeterian Creative-Destruction Bell Tolls This Time: KEY INSIGHT
In the bullseye of history: Why we literate intellectuals feel that this wave of technological change is so much more momentous than, say, the coming of mass production or of electric power. The...
Coffee Break: OpenAI, Amazon Colluding With Trump Against Anthropic
The Trump administration is in conflict with Anthropic and rival OpenAI is trying to take advantage because Anthropic is a threat to them.
The Soul of AI and the Future of Humankind
A curious feature of the artificial intelligence boom is how many commentators reach for the great books to understand it. Peter Thiel borrowed the name of Palantir, the firm he founded, from J. R. R.
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility in 2013
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These Ancient Millipedes Paved the Way for Terrestrial Life
They preceded vertebrates on land by about 80 million years The post These Ancient Millipedes Paved the Way for Terrestrial Life appeared first on Nautilus.
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be...
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing a âcollaborative reimagination for orchestraâ of his seminal album Endtroducing⊠in December. Tickets are already sold out, but there will b
Monday links: the railroad and AI booms
This Could Be the Worst Ebola Outbreak in History
Jeremy Konyndyk in the New York Times: The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks â the worst Ebola outbreaks in histo
(SEMI-)CROSSPOST: DAVE DEEK: GOVERNANCE CYBERNETICS
Dave Deek says: Synthesis, Not TriangulationâŠ. The Cybernetic ApproachâŠ. This PublicationâŠ. Why This MattersâŠ. I say: State Capacity Sanity. Costco, Safeway, the cybernetics of getting housing...
Kayfable
What does Anthropic actually want?
On Inherent AI Risk: "Extinction-Level Capitalism"
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. Heâs written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism. It is well-worth a read; Iâve
Aparna Raj Demands Housing Justice in DC
WDespite being the nationâs capital, with over seven hundred thousand residents, Washington, DC, is governed without full democratic rights. In recent years, the Trump administration has treated the d
$1.77 trillion, in stacked hundred dollar bills, compared to the Statue of Liberty, Elon Musk, $1.7 billion, a Tesla Model X and a SpaceX Starship
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Pluralistic: AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026)
Today's links AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Makers v d
The Factor Zoo Has Hundreds of Animals â But Only a Handful of Species
Academics have identified hundreds of factors that supposedly explain stock returns.
For Every One Of Us, There Are Many of Them
How to figure out what the most important things in the world are
Analysis: UKâs EV drivers are now saving ÂŁ1,100 each a year â and ÂŁ3bn in total
Amid reports that the government could weaken the UKâs electric vehicle (EV) targets, Carbon Brief... The post Analysis: UKâs EV drivers are now saving ÂŁ1,100 each a year â and ÂŁ3bn in total appeared
Paul McCartney on Song Exploder . I think he was with...
Paul McCartney on Song Exploder. I think he was with The Beatles at some point?
Painting the Present from David to Warhol
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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Plausible answers range from 17 to â in all seriousness â 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Adviser links: the reality of aging
Mondays are all about financial adviser-related links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at...
ISS Astronaut Shares Incredible Photos of Volcanoes Taken From Space
And one of them was putting on a show The post ISS Astronaut Shares Incredible Photos of Volcanoes Taken From Space appeared first on Nautilus.
The Health Gap Between Conservative & Liberal America Is Written in the Mortality Data: CHART OF THE DAY
Medicaid expansion is the easiest albeit very, very partial fix on offer. And it is something that the people whom red states elect to rule them could implement immediately and very, very cheaply if t
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