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Are do-gooders an inferior class, consigned to drudgery? Elizabeth Anderson traces the contours of the progressive work ethic
In early-19th century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead
Heart palpitations, stomach lurches, sweaty palms: What it's like to spend a year inside the Stephen King archive
An interview with Ronald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)
From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony. The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was
Daniel T. Blumstein, Peter Mikula, and Piotr Tryjanowski in The Conversation: The urban monkeys in New Delhi are so bold they’ll steal the lunch right off your plate. If you’ve spent time in New York,
Plus, Anthropic's new AI model that's 'too dangerous to release,' thoughts on the New Yorker's Sam Altman investigation, and more.
Artemis II was one small step in another giant leap The post What Comes After Artemis II appeared first on Nautilus.
Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher. My brain may be permanently broken by this.
Anthropic's $30B revenue / China won the global race / AI scapegoating layoffs / Mythos / Gen Z against AI / "AI is conscious?" is the wrong question
Part the First: War Begets War, A Conversation. Daedalus hosted a conversation among Robert Jay Lifton (1926-2025), Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista last year. It was preprinted recently i
Tropical cyclones that rapidly intensify when passing over marine heatwaves can become “supercharged”, increasing the... The post Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropica
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien and Timothy Snyder's live video
Michael Le Page at New Scientist: A woman who had three different autoimmune conditions has not required treatments for almost a year after her immune cells were genetically modified and used to kill
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia.
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A brief update on mist, my ephemeral Markdown editor with Google Docs-style comments and suggested edits: mist is now open source with an MIT license, and the mist repo is here on GitHub. (Try mist no
“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls his ‘Red Empire’ was made so much easier, and so much more brutal, by the intelligence the Cambridge spies passed to Moscow.”
Willy Staley in the New York Times: Maybe a decade ago, it still felt as if there were a wild expanse within your phone, a portal to a vast and sometimes terrifying alternate dimension. If the sensati
Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool.
The dark underbelly of insect farming
Los Angeles public school teachers have declared a strike deadline of April 14. The conflict forces the question of whether schools are an EdTech business opportunity or a public responsibility. UTLA
This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s, documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II. I never got to meet m
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. The post Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary S
After two years of success, our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds is returning again
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 10 April 2026: Worst energy crisis ‘ever’ | India withdraws COP33 bid |
Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company. MCD published so many good titles/authors: Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloa
Trump tries to muscle the Holy See as Catholic voters turn against him and the Iran war.
Dostoevsky's trust-fund revolutionaries
We disinfect water before we drink it. Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne disease as rare as those carried by water.
The Iran War looks like a tipping point
Judy Berman in The Time Magazine: In a scene from AMC’s new tech-industry drama The Audacity, two old friends reunite around a crackling campfire. “Men like you and me, we gotta duck when sh-t f-cks t
War, and now a fragile ceasefire, is not bringing collapse in Iran but reinforcing and reorganizing its existing structures of power and inequality. In Western political circles, a recurring view has
David Hu in The Scientist: “Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare skin. This full-body massacre wasn’t th
Firms loaded with goodwill and intangible assets have quietly underperformed.
Review of Demons, Part 3
AI vs. Alzheimer's, Substrate x GDM, Robot Lamp, Artemis II, Primer + Extra Doses
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