Donald McIntyre (1934 â 2025) Operatic Bass-Baritone
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Socialism After AI
Evgeny Morozov in The Ideas Letter: Artificial intelligence has produced a rare kind of popular curiosity. Not only among investors and founders, but among people who open a browser, type a question,
Can machines suffer?
Conor Purcelli in Aeon: Across northern Europe and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries, workers roamed coastlines and pack ice, beating infant seals to death with clubs. White ice was smeared re
Between Capitalism and the State-System
Quentin Bruneau in Phenomenal World: How should we explain periods of profound global transformation? Scholars have long viewed socio-political change as a reflection of property relations and technol
The new political theology
Arthur Goldhammer in Eurozine: Is Charlie Kirkâs assassination-turned-martyrdom unofficially disestablishing the US constitutional clause against the government forming a national religion? And how as
Joseph Byrd (1937 â 2025) Experimental Composer and Musician
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Phil Upchurch (1941 â 2025) Guitarist
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Endings (and the Writers Who Love Them)
Ask not what your ending is, but what it might do for your book.
Cymbeline book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
Vijay Prashad in Scheerpost: On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala â home to 34 million people â was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Keral
May I Explain the âMay I Meet You?â Meme?
Katie Baker in The Ringer: The way the fabled investor Bill Ackman sees it, he was born to move markets. Itâs right there in the name: BILL-ionaire ACK-tivist MAN, as the 59-year-old always loves poin
Sunday Poem
The Case of Courage No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live tak
Putting the âArtâ into Artificial Intelligence, or Banksy on Steroids
by Malcolm Murray As I discussed AI with my cabdriver on a recent trip to Vienna, I was reminded of the fact that the German word for AI is KĂŒnstliche Intelligenz. This shares an etymological root wit
The joy of having zero New Yearâs resolutions
It's a great time of year to admit you have no idea where youâre going.
The Barren Midwife: On Socratic Method and Psychotherapeutic Art
by Gary Borjesson Iâve rarely regretted holding my tongue during a session. Iâve rarely regretted drawing out whatâs on a patientâs mind instead of offering some (apparently) juicy insight or interpre
The Literature of Limits: The Buddhist Horizon (Part II)
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad In the previous article of this series I started with the exploration of the concept that every civilization eventually arrives at the edge of its own knowing. It was not m
Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years
She wrote about what really matters
âSchopenhauer wanted to outdo Hegel in intellectual grandeur, but his work has a cracker-barrel quality to itâ
âSchopenhauer wanted to outdo Hegel in intellectual grandeur, but his work has a cracker-barrel quality to itâ
The AI era might spur political revolt, but it will certainly spur a battle over who owns the infrastructure of intelligent thought
The AI era might spur political revolt, but it will certainly spur a battle over who owns the infrastructure of intelligent thought
Tolkienâs reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of storyÂ
Tolkienâs reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of story
What Happened to the Library?
And why we need physical books more than ever
The Modern Lesson of Army Navy
A Beacon in the Neon Dystopia of College Football
The Meaning of the Cross in Different Cultures
4 radically different ideas
Favorite Books of 2025
Because I read for the same reason I write â to fathom my life and deepen my living â looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. Here are the books I read this y
The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life by Ian...
The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life by Ian Bogost. âHow modern conveniences not only fail to deliver on their promises but also rob us of small, satisfying tasks and moments that keep
How does lake ice do this? Incredible! (Mirror Lake, New Hampshire)...
How does lake ice do this? Incredible! (Mirror Lake, New Hampshire) đŹ Join the discussion on kottke.org â
"Eating the right foods in the proper quantities, 16th-century Britons believed, balanced...
âEating the right foods in the proper quantities, 16th-century Britons believed, balanced mind and soul. So in Shakespeareâs plays, roasts, ales, and pies are not props, but clues to charactersâ souls
This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now
I guess this is as good an explanation of contemporary culture as anything. Hungover from a world that told us we could be anything, we decided to be DJs. We donât create our own music. We curate play
The Flow State podcast recently celebrated their 300th episode with a 2h41m...
The Flow State podcast recently celebrated their 300th episode with a 2h41m mix of instrumental music sourced from a group of âmusicians, curators, label heads, music fansâ. They even let me pick a so
Lorem 2
Usually I try and write actual words for design mockups (and sometimes they end up in a final product). If I need more texture, itâs easy to find basic placeholder text. But this tool by Andrew Boardm
A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood
Paper by Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham, and Stanley M. Bileschi: The emergence of agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to trigger a âCambrian explosionâ of ne
Music can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite. And for that, you need dissonance
Music can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite. And for that, you need dissonance
What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction
What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction
Two millennia ago, a few hundred people convened in an Anatolian backwater. They created the core doctrine of orthodox Christianity
Two millennia ago, a few hundred people convened in an Anatolian backwater. They created the core doctrine of orthodox Christianity
Australiaâs world-first social media ban is a ânatural experimentâ for scientists
Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu in Nature: For Susan Sawyer, a physician-researcher specializing in adolescent health at the Murdoch Childrenâs Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, the start of
X-Ray Visions
I first posted about Nick Veaseyâs work back in 2005 and thought it was worth another look. Veasey uses x-ray photography to get inside views of familiar objects, sometimes on a large scale. And
Normal distribution vs Power Laws
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Charles Dickens: A Short History with Tom Crewe
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Oilwell is a (fake) wellness app "to help you embrace climate chaos"...
Oilwell is a (fake) wellness app âto help you embrace climate chaosâ that includes features like âDrowning Mindfullyâ, âLo-Fi Beats to Frack Toâ, and â12 Hour Wildfire Relaxationâ.
Anthony Jeselnikâs Top Ten Books of 2025
I love a tidy year end list, and Iâve been on a book kick so this is great. Itâs made even better by the lack of superfluous YouTube noise and tight edit. / All of this noticed thanks to Riccardo Mori
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