Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.
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Maeve Adams on Rhetoric and Resistance
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Rian Johnson’s personal website
Photos! Scripts! Movies! Lots to click around here! And though I wish there was context for images on the home page, there’s something to be said for mystery. Enjoyed the 16mm b&w short, Evil Demon Go
War on Iran
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in The Polycrisis: The illegal war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has triggered the mother of all commodity-supply shocks. In response to the unprov
Normcore
Thomas Meaney on Jurgen Habermas in Sidecar: The funeral cortège for Jürgen Habermas was carried out, appropriately enough, in what still passes for the German public sphere – the national newspapers
Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions
Ben Recht over at his substack, arg min: I’ve been wanting to write a summary of the Cultural AI conference I attended at NYU last week, but I’ve been struggling to succinctly capture my thoughts. Tha
Will the Miracle of Capitalism Destroy Us All?
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: In 2003, the literary theorist Fredric Jameson wrote that it was “easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Trevor Jackson s
Classic Icons and Stunning Contemporary Works
From lensculture: The Photography Show presented by AIPAD will take place April 22-26, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. This yearly gathering features a wide variety of historically si
Dash Crofts (1938 – 2026) Musician and Member of Seals & Crofts
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Alexander Kluge (1932 – 2026) Filmmaker and Author
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Sunday Poem
I Went Out To See All the Downed Trees Nothing was where it was supposed to be or even where it was twenty minutes ago, one of the only times I’ve understood what nature was trying to say to me. But t
A sharp new book on A.I., psyops, and magic; an entertaining video essay on video stores; and more
Roundup 03/29/2026
Robert Trivers (1943 – 2026) Evolutionary Biologist
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Math Science Vision Approvals Budget
Mr Beast; entertainment, pain, & everything you need; project management.
Victory at Charlie’s Place: A Democracy More Like ‘High Noon’ than de Tocqueville
by Daniel Gauss This story goes back to a time when Williamsburg was just starting to become the hipster promised land and just before 9/11. It can be classified as an obscure but, hopefully, interest
Lessons From Singapore: The Virtues Of Vice
by Eric Feigenbaum In a city-state that fines spitting in public, requires stores to check identification and log purchasers of chewing gum, heavily taxes alcohol and tobacco and bans durian from publ
Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter
For his recent London run of shows, Fred Again coaxed Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter out of his helmet and in front of the decks for a 2-hour collaborative DJ set. And you can watch the whole thing on Y
How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise
How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise
Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy
Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy
Tolkien's Guide to Re-Enchantment
Learn to love things, not control them
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled
Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiative by bombarding Kurdish forces along its western border. How the Kurdish Offensive
Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart."
Hating Dostoevsky
A review in the Sunday Times
The Story of My Mysterious Pain
I never talked about my pain. But it kept getting worse and worse.
AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read
Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read
An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning
An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning
Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre
Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre
Tin Can Holiday Tree
Now’s a good time to start saving up tin cans to make this mid-century modern inspired decoration. (Instructions also available in video format.) / via Tom
How to Paint Protest Signs
Chris Campe of All Things Letters provides a guide for elevating the typography and punch of protest signs. / via Sara Joy
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
Beth Matthews (whose work you’ve seen) does a deep dive into the color theory behind control rooms — with insight about Faber Birren, a consultant who established and championed semantic commercial co
Chuck Norris once beat the sun in a staring contest
Sopan Deb at the New York Times: Chuck Norris once gave a horse an uppercut and now we have giraffes. Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris is so tough he can slam a revolving door. Chuck
A Cloud That Looks Like a Bird
For my part, I knew that I had fallen in love with Dry Leaf when another cow—or was it a horse?—ambled through the frame enfolded in a pixelated outline distinct from the rest of the sky behind it. I
Remembering Robert Trivers, arguably the most important evolutionary theorist since Darwin
Robert Lynch at The Laughing Ape: Robert Trivers, who died on March 12, 2026, was arguably the most important evolutionary theorist since Darwin. He had a rare gift for seeing through the messy clutte
to feel and to fail
that's the artist's vocation for ya
What should a university AI czar do?
Advice for a flourishing future
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution, talks to Lex Fridman
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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...
Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former Epic Games employee Asher Zhu. You try to stay hydrated in the hot Tokyo summer by showering and drinking beverages from vending machines.
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