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Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?
Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.
Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars
Look at you, you fucking dumbass.
And see a vision of the past The post Gaze into the Stunning Crystal Ball Nebula appeared first on Nautilus.
One of Zohran Mamdaniâs signature legislative proposals from his time in the New York State Assembly has been reintroduced by his successor and allies. And while the original proposal for the âNot on
By the 1990s, there were even times when a channel surfer, perhaps startled by the abrasive industrial techno opening sequence of Klugeâs show 10 vor 11, might have clicked away, only to land on anoth
Leave it to The Woz to hit the right note with freshly minted graduates The post Finally a Commencement Speech That Gets AI Right appeared first on Nautilus.
In just three years, Silicon Valley has destroyed its entire support network. It's still in denialâbut that won't last.
James Wade at Texas Highways: Family road trips can be complicated, especially in a state as big as Texas, where the answer to âAre we there yet?â is usually âOnly a few more hours.â With hundreds of
âWe can never go back,â bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. âWe can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.
People with amygdala damage are shedding new light on why we trust or fear others The post How Your Brain Decides What Matters appeared first on Nautilus.
Consumer confidence hits a new low â but that's not the number that should worry you
Todayâs Coffee Break on a holiday weekend in the USÂ is the simple recommendation that you go straight to this long essay in Front Porch Republic by W. Aaron Vandiver of Carbondale, Colorado: Trump an
Eric Rodenbeck on AI as a Design Medium. âIn my class, the first principle is simple: Do not take what comes back from prompts at face value. Interrogate it. Iterate on it. Stay with it longer than fe
Konstantin Kakaes at Quanta: What Albert Einstein was to 20th-century physics, Alexander Grothendieck was to 20th-century mathematics. He is much less well known because math gets technical even more
BĂ€rbel Bas is a particularly abrasive Social Democrat and one of the most disturbing personalities in German politics.
Much has been written about the supposed death of the value and size premiums.
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Art But Make It Sports is now available in book form. âEpic moments in modern sports are masterfully paired with their fine art doppelgangersâŠâ
This might just be the most cynicalâand thus true-to-lifeâentry in the Woman With a Magazine Job canon.
Havana is running on fumes. For the first time since the Special Period, Cuba faces a crisis of near-existential proportions â and the threat of US military intervention is now being spoken aloud. Cen
Ruxandra Teslo in Works in Progress: Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. Although its five-year survival rate has improved from roughly 4 percent in the mid-1990s to
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: One popular objection to AI concerns is to declare that LLMs can never be AGI. You need a ânew paradigmâ. Therefore, AGI is so far in the future that itâs not wort
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: Uncovering natureâs secrets is no easy task. The daily life of a scientist is often grueling, frustrating, andâperhaps surprisinglyâboring as they repeat experiments ove
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Young scientists dream up a way to decipher the mindâs eye with EEG and AI The post Using Brain Waves to Translate Thoughts into Pictures appeared first on Nautilus.
moats and their discontents
Welcome to Carbon Briefâs DeBriefed. An essential guide to the weekâs key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 22 May 2026: UN adopts landmark resolution | Trump takes on âRCP8.5â |
Hundreds of scientists gathered in London this week to discuss the role of migration as... The post Experts: Why migration is ânot a failure of adaptationâ in a warming world appeared first on Carbon
âA woozle effectâŠoccurs when frequent citation of previous publications that lack evidence misleads individuals, groups and the public into thinking or believing there is evidence, and non-facts becom
Itâs mean, too The post Thereâs a New T. Rex in Townâand It Swims appeared first on Nautilus.
You should scream to your congresspeople
A new epoch of sports â and, we are told, of human achievement â is upon us. The Enhanced Games, an athletic competition that organizers promise will âpush the boundaries of human performance,â kicks
âA three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility â even when the cups were placed in clearly marked
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A Hinternet Symposion Podcast, with Ross Barkan, Sam Jennings, and Justin Smith-Ruiu
Reta Phase 3, Colossal Eggs, SpaceX, OpenAI x ErdĆs, SendCutSend + Extra Doses
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