âRevolutionâ initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?
âRevolutionâ initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?
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âOne of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek wordâ
âOne of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek wordâ
Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude
Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any...
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears. (I love any Boggle-esque sort of game. Got 433 today.)
Donât have a menty b about this bloggy p (on 3 Quarky D!)
Stan Carey at Sentence first: We can show this linguistic fad as having two main stereotyped patterns or formulas, which overlap morphologically. For type 1, we take a word or short phrase, clip (i.e.
" 'CEO said a thing!' journalism...
ââCEO said a thing!â journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything b
Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking theyâre helping. Theyâre not.
âAll It Is Is Painâ: The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance
Reid Forgrave at the New York Times: There are two principal reasons for the superior conditioning of cross-country skiers, according to Laura Richardson, a clinical exercise physiologist at the Unive
"Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
âOur Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence.â
The Philosopher of Games
A conversation with C. Thi Nguyen on his new book 'The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Elseâs Game'
The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumiâs Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
"Youâll long for me when Iâm gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"
Magical Athlete
Elizabeth Goodspeed (web / insta / newsletter) posted about the type in this game she lent design and art direction. It has opened a rabbit hole of goodness. CMYK games is chock full of colorful delig
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for âScience and AI Researchâ)
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The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of...
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time. âSomething Iâve heard from every Mario developer Iâve ever spoken to over the years is this: Whenever you press a button, something fun
Are books and babies compatible?
Some general thoughts and Hollis Robbins in The Republic of Letters
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th...
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest. âIf you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief
Rabah Arezki in Nature: The unravelling of the aid industry must force a reset of the nexus between peace and economic development. The international-development model has changed little in eight deca
Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties
Unhappy Birthday Charles Darwin
"It's Fine If I Suck Sometimes"
Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, Iâm No Longer Interested in âWorking on Myselfâ, aka the exhausting âhyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk a
Ive + Newsom + Ferrari = Some buttons
Iâve read the stories about how LoveFrom, helped design the interior of the first electric Ferrari and it wasnât until seeing this video that it all clicked. Though I would probably appreciate a chunk
"Any serious push to account for the actions of...
âAny serious push to account for the actions of this government â to abolish the presidentâs private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing â must inclu
Molly Guard
Learned a new word this morning, and the etymology is absolutely worth the click. The ensuing thought about design interaction expands the notion.
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it...
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it âran on three hundred old Pentium III computers nobody else at Google wantedâ.
What the Ivy League Is Really Selling
Not a better education, but elite social formation.
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like...
Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo.
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimate
Thursday Poem
Reinventing North America Living on the western edge of Turtle Island in Shasta Nation Whose people are native, Euro-, African, Asian, Mestizo, Pacific and nuevo Americano â Turtle Islanders â Where t
Book Club Recap: Screwtape Letters
Introduction (Session 1 of 2)
The Internet Was Imagined Before World War I
by Anton Cebalo Writer Joseph Roth noted that the period after World War I thrived on âthe ability to forget quickly and emphatically.â This was just as true for people. People who had great, popular
Will Life on Mars Require a Genetic Rewrite?
Microgravity, radiation, and extreme climates pose ethical and biological challenges that researchers are racing to overcome.
James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley (1965)
(Note: Throughout February, at least one post will be devoted to Black History Month: A century of Black History Commemorations)
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves
James Baldwin in The New Yorker (1962): In short, we, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nationâif we are really, that is, to achieve our identity, our m
The Way Station: a Clip Show
by TJ Price Itâs been one year since Iâve been writing this monthly column here at 3 Quarks Daily. I think the temptation on such an occasion is to look backwardâfor evidence to support this, we have
This Weekâs Photograph
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Is This the Most Radical School Ever Built?
When Sean Tevlin discovered The Group School (TGS) in the 1970s, he found âa much needed safe space.â A struggling teen who had dropped out of public school and battled math anxiety, he arrived at the
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
Why You
A self is a story of why you are you â a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment: atoms bonding one way and not another, parents bonding with
Darwinâs Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living
"If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity
"Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back."
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