Was Elizabeth Bathory, aka âthe Blood Countess,â a torturer of young maidens or a victim of a disinformation campaign?
Was Elizabeth Bathory, aka âthe Blood Countess,â a torturer of young maidens or a victim of a disinformation campaign?
How come a person who canât focus on a novel can sit through a three-hour video? The problem isn't the screen. It's the environment
How come a person who canât focus on a novel can sit through a three-hour video? The problem isn't the screen. It's the environment
The Next Great Transformation
Jeremy Shapiro at The Ideas Letter: Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a central arena of geopolitical competition. The United States government frames AI as a strategic asset on par with ener
I Am a 15-year-old Girl. Let Me Show You the Vile...
I Am a 15-year-old Girl. Let Me Show You the Vile Misogyny That Confronts Me on Social Media Every Day. âI frequently feel objectified, dehumanised and disgusted by the hate towards women I see online
The First Version Wins
A fake Newsom quote went viral today. Every time this happens, the real story disappears.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse â Americaâs Coming Suez Moment
In 1956, Britainâs Suez campaign collapsed not because its forces were defeated, but because sterling could not withstand financial pressure. The episode revealed a structural truth: military capabili
Fiery Crash of SpaceX Rocket Causes Huge Lithium Plume
Itâs the first known direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris re-entry The post Fiery Crash of SpaceX Rocket Causes Huge Lithium Plume appeared first on Nautilus.
The global economy hinges on this fingernail-sized silicon chip
From Big Think: Hidden inside every swipe, search, and AI prompt is a fingernail-sized slab of silicon â etched with billions of switches â built in $20 billion factories using machines so precise the
How to Stop a Dictator . "Democracy is in fact a...
How to Stop a Dictator. âDemocracy is in fact a powerful motivating factor: When people are convinced that thereâs a threat to their political freedoms, they can be motivated to go to extraordinary le
MAMLMs Still Epic Fail OpenâBook, ClosedâWorld, FiniteâList, Obvious Ground Truth Tasks
I count this as a failure nine different successive times. There really is a unique, wellâdefined answer, and where the machine has every chance to uncover it: the Hedge Knight Ashford Meadow line...
The Trailer for Season Five of For All Mankind
Just dropped this morning: the trailer for the final season of For All Mankind. When season fourâs teaser trailer came out, I caught some flack for suggesting that âif you tilt your head and squintâŠyo
Open-Relationships Anyone? Polyamorous Utopia in Upstate New York
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Top tier nerd shit. " WalkmanLand is a tribute to...
Top tier nerd shit. âWalkmanLand is a tribute to the long forgotten portable music players from the 80-90s. The Walkmans.â
Why AI Doesnât Need A âMindâ To Matter
The post Why AI Doesnât Need A âMindâ To Matter appeared first on NOEMA.
The Three Best Pieces of Writing About AI in 2026 That You Must Read Right Now
They will teach you everything you need to know about the world we're living in
The Teens Teaching Grandma to Google
Itâs three oâclock on a cold Budapest afternoon, and the sun is already dropping low on the horizon as 64-year-old Györgyi Petik Kis briskly makes her way to the Metropolitan Ervin SzabĂł Library. A be
The Cancer No One Can Explain
Colorectal cancer in young people has been rising for 30 years. We still don't know whyâand that's killing people. The post The Cancer No One Can Explain appeared first on Nautilus.
When âHackersâ Was Hacked
How the movieâs website became the first ever to be hacked
Well, this is one of those things I wish I'd known...
Well, this is one of those things I wish Iâd known about earlier â sessions with Isabel Wilkerson, James McBride, Ocean Vuong, Rebecca Solnit, Lauren Groff, Judy BlumeâŠall sold out. đ
The Misuses of the University
François Furstenberg at Public Books: Johns Hopkins is launching its 150th anniversary celebration. When it was founded in 1876, American universities were still mostly finishing schools for children
A Pillar On Its Side
What we saw as shrines were remnants of a home, a bit of a lifetime or several lifetimes that still had some of the magic of the everyday in which the gods had for long happily existed.
Book Club: Screwtape Letters (Session 2)
Here's the link to join
Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Is Free to Speak About Fascism Now
Early on in the promotional period for season two of Andor, a series explicitly about fascism that depicted a genocide, Disney asked creator Tony Gilroy not to use the words âfascismâ and âgenocideâ.
Malicious Streetlight Effects Vs. "Directional Correctness" - A Semi-Non-Apology
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The Sky Isnât Falling
New Data Pushes Back on Private Credit Doom and Gloom
Could Republicans blow the Texas Senate race?
The Democratic primary is contentious, but the winner might get a shot at the sort of candidate who cost the GOP the Senate in 2022.
Chads and Incels, Glazing, Socializing
Links and recommendations
The Ancient Cold Snaps That May Have Shaped Human Evolution
Hereâs when Earthâs climate became chaotic The post The Ancient Cold Snaps That May Have Shaped Human Evolution appeared first on Nautilus.
Tuesday Poem
âReal improvement can be hoped for only if there is a radical change of consciousness. I fear all other measures will remain unreliably palliative since they do not penetrate to the depths where the e
Republicans Scheming to Preserve Trump Tariffs Even After They Create Fewer Manufacturing Jobs
Trump and his GOP allies still heart tariffs despite failures, such as 2025 net manufacturing job growth ofless than half the year before.
Research links: capacity limits
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs edition including a look at...
A Meta employee who works on AI safety let an AI agent...
A Meta employee who works on AI safety let an AI agent named OpenClaw loose on her inbox and it deleted all her email. (This tracks; companies like Meta actually donât care about AI safety and hire ac
I Hate Trump's Awful Policies, but I Love That...
I Hate Trumpâs Awful Policies, but I Love That Heâs a Huge Asshole. âI donât like Trumpâs immigration laws; theyâre racist and economically disastrous. But I do love how evil he is.â
The Secret History of Knocking on Wood
Most of human nature is never written down â and machines can't learn it from text
A Ukrainian Socialist Went to War. Here's What He Thinks About Peace.
Four years into Russiaâs invasion, Taras Bilous â a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army â reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right. Taras Bil
The Future of Physics
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My true love hath my heart
Poetry by Heart I
Writer Lauren Groff on how she works . "After she...
Writer Lauren Groff on how she works. âAfter she completes a first draft, she puts it in a bankers box â and never reads it again.â And: âWe all need to fill ourselves with the ghosts of other writers
Michael Jordanâs Top 60 Career Plays
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The Jackie Robinson Story
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