The best writing from the smartest minds—from economics to philosophy, technology to culturehttps://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/en-ushttps://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7c956563/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7c956563/Universities preach AI literacy. On campus, the reality looks more like cognitive surrenderMon, 18 May 2026 20:52:29 GMTCultureArts & Letters Daily (Arts & Letters Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/fe861751/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/fe861751/Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illnessMon, 18 May 2026 20:52:29 GMTCultureArts & Letters Daily (Arts & Letters Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/416b2d70/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/416b2d70/Marilyn Monroe was the world's most photographed woman, and among its loneliest. To be wanted is not to be lovedMon, 18 May 2026 20:52:29 GMTCultureArts & Letters Daily (Arts & Letters Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/45409331/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/45409331/“I have travelled all over the world in the last 30 years, and have never seen anything like the density of assholes I just encountered in Japan, [i.e.] tourists being an unbearable menace specificallMon, 18 May 2026 20:47:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/fd21c65f/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/fd21c65f/These dogs have been living alongside humans for millennia The post Mummified Peruvian Hairless Dogs Shed Light on Ancient Companionship appeared first on Nautilus.Mon, 18 May 2026 20:00:00 GMTScienceJake Currie (Nautilus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/ab78e999/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/ab78e999/There’s something so relaxing about watching art conservator Julian Baumgartner restore this damaged painting, a self-portrait by Italian painter Emma Gaggiotti Richards. I love how he paints tiny craMon, 18 May 2026 19:49:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9e2bf304/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9e2bf304/This message from John Pavlovitz in Row G, Seat 112 resonated as I felt the same abundance of feelings and optimism after seeing this tour. (I didn’t sum it up near as eloquently.)Mon, 18 May 2026 19:34:48 GMTCultureChris Glass (Chris Glass)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/377ded27/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/377ded27/Months of rescue efforts by influencers and millionaires may have just prolonged his death The post Nobody Could Save Timmy the Whale appeared first on Nautilus.Mon, 18 May 2026 19:30:00 GMTScienceKristen French (Nautilus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/669d6425/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/669d6425/Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the making that you can play on the web, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum Next, and Palm Pilot.Mon, 18 May 2026 19:08:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/b8f00aac/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/b8f00aac/And mostly during months with an “R” in them The post Neanderthals Lounged on the Beach Slurping Shellfish appeared first on Nautilus.Mon, 18 May 2026 19:00:00 GMTScienceJake Currie (Nautilus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/6b172173/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/6b172173/Attiya Waris at Aeon: You cannot protect the right to healthcare without funding hospitals. You cannot guarantee the right to education without paying teachers. You cannot deliver justice without fundMon, 18 May 2026 18:45:43 GMTCultureS. Abbas Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/dfc0b54e/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/dfc0b54e/and so there are some things we will never knowMon, 18 May 2026 18:30:21 GMTTechnologyGary Marcus (Gary Marcus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7040d6db/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7040d6db/Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game, Subnautica 2. Prunty did the FTL: Faster Than Light soundtrack back in the day, which I love.Mon, 18 May 2026 18:26:21 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/963411ef/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/963411ef/A series of primary races and the national partisan fight over mid-decade redistricting are revealing the deep fault lines dividing both American political parties.Mon, 18 May 2026 18:00:34 GMTEconomicsNat Wilson Turner (Naked Capitalism)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5aba3064/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5aba3064/This exploration of color by David Aerne is both elegant and extremely interactive. Poke around the Gamut Preset section, each expands into deeper explorations of pigment mixing, HSL modeling, expandaMon, 18 May 2026 17:54:25 GMTCultureChris Glass (Chris Glass)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9a54923a/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9a54923a/Mon, 18 May 2026 17:53:13 GMTFinanceabnormalreturns (Abnormal Returns)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/1d5227e1/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/1d5227e1/More here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.Mon, 18 May 2026 17:45:09 GMTCultureS. Abbas Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/aa3eb166/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/aa3eb166/Stop worrying about the AI apocalypseMon, 18 May 2026 17:38:29 GMTTechnologyAlberto Romero (The Algorithmic Bridge)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/ce926bc8/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/ce926bc8/Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for their own good. “Each morning at 10am, I get an email from Caroline in the finance team showing the cash we have in the bank compared with the same Mon, 18 May 2026 17:16:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7d9d03bf/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/7d9d03bf/Gardening for the good of creation is our noble privilegeMon, 18 May 2026 17:13:37 GMTCultureHadden Turner (Over the Field)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/130d0efc/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/130d0efc/The Palestinian solidarity movement in Australia has endured a wave of repression throughout the first few months of 2026. Every attempt to silence Palestinian voices, however, has been met with resisMon, 18 May 2026 17:07:09 GMTPoliticsBart Shteinman (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9976a823/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9976a823/The Democratic Party’s donor class is freaked out by the prospect of a massive populist wave election that doesn’t just switch control of Congress but puts into office the particular kinds of DemocratMon, 18 May 2026 17:00:21 GMTPoliticsDavid Sirota (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/89c67d50/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/89c67d50/The widespread trials and tribulations of mammal childbirth The post Other Animals Share Human Mothers’ Pain appeared first on Nautilus.Mon, 18 May 2026 17:00:00 GMTScienceDevin Reese (Nautilus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/76eb8071/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/76eb8071/Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.Mon, 18 May 2026 16:45:56 GMTCultureS. Abbas Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/55439fea/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/55439fea/Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up kids. “When your kid leaves it is the happiest day of your life and also the saddest day of your life. And a lot of other feelings in between.”Mon, 18 May 2026 16:36:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/2337a8f8/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/2337a8f8/You wanted it to stay a haven when all was lost: Kamal Adwan hospital, where even rocked by bombs and raids, you fostered all the small possibilities of care. The soldiers vacated. You found those patMon, 18 May 2026 16:13:30 GMTCultureKen Chen (n+1)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/67131a86/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/67131a86/More numbers, same storyMon, 18 May 2026 16:01:40 GMTEconomicsPaul Krugman (Paul Krugman)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/be56dc0a/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/be56dc0a/From Five Books: The books shortlisted for the 2026 Orwell Prizes, the UK’s most prestigious awards for writing about politics, have been announced. “As judges, we returned again and again to what GeoMon, 18 May 2026 15:45:44 GMTCultureS. Abbas Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/38549729/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/38549729/I am not what you would call a dedicated home cook. But every once in a while, I get a bee in my bonnet and make something from my small cache of recipes or from something I saw online that looked gooMon, 18 May 2026 15:33:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/d9c16c71/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/d9c16c71/You--you!--can join an incredible group of people doing ridiculous amounts of good and saving hundreds of thousands of livesMon, 18 May 2026 15:15:17 GMTPhilosophyBentham's Bulldog (Bentham's Newsletter)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5259f024/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5259f024/At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. The post What Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems TMon, 18 May 2026 15:14:42 GMTScienceNatalie Wolchover (Quanta Magazine)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/4329bf80/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/4329bf80/As I wait to speak with Julie Su, a lifelong labor advocate who has, under socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, become the first deputy mayor for economic justice, I watch people come through the doors of Mon, 18 May 2026 15:08:32 GMTPoliticsLiza Featherstone (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/873fd2fa/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/873fd2fa/...Mon, 18 May 2026 15:03:49 GMTPhilosophyScott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/3955021d/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/3955021d/Omar Ahmad Abdallah al-Jamili cannot fully open his mouth. His ear is deformed, and his face is a topography of surgical scars — skin grafted and stretched across bone in operations performed in AmsteMon, 18 May 2026 15:03:37 GMTPoliticsJaclynn Ashly (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/10700430/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/10700430/Moira Doinegan in Book Forum: SHE WAS ALWAYS LATE. Crew members and other actors would wait around for hours, wondering when—or if—Marilyn Monroe would show up. Some days, especially toward the end ofMon, 18 May 2026 14:50:39 GMTCultureAzra Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9282f48b/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/9282f48b/I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to read this whole 15,000-word profile of him at ESPN. Really interesting throughout.Mon, 18 May 2026 14:45:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/39a1cd1c/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/39a1cd1c/Asher Mullard in Nature: Photosynthetic machinery can be harvested from spinach and transplanted into the eyes of mice, where it transforms light into molecules that carry energy and can tame inflammaMon, 18 May 2026 14:41:38 GMTCultureAzra Raza (3 Quarks Daily)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/cbb78ec4/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/cbb78ec4/Many right-leaning figures have tried to push the idea that the UK is an outlier... The post Factcheck: US and Iran are world’s only major emitters without net-zero targets appeared first on Carbon BrMon, 18 May 2026 14:21:04 GMTClimateDaisy Dunne (Carbon Brief)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/201f592b/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/201f592b/“Can we still have an ethos if we don’t have an ethnos?” This question is unlikely to preoccupy many  readers, but it’s at the top of James Orr’s mind. Orr, a Cambridge don who’s become the policy chiMon, 18 May 2026 14:08:36 GMTPoliticsDaniele Palmer (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/39a71f20/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/39a71f20/Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress, a paint swatch, a flower, your kid’s drawing) and What Color Is This? names the color instantly.” I like the increasingly specific color labels (e.gMon, 18 May 2026 14:05:31 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5d7cbcca/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5d7cbcca/From an ancient brush with extinction came the big modern brain The post We Got Lucky as a Species appeared first on Nautilus.Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 GMTScienceKenneth S. Kosik (Nautilus)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/720edc9f/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/720edc9f/A new model that incorporates more real world factors than standard approaches finds that tariffs can do more damage than previously thought.Mon, 18 May 2026 13:55:19 GMTEconomicsYves Smith (Naked Capitalism)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/42de6fe7/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/42de6fe7/The debate over private equity performance has been plagued by self-selection bias—funds volunteered their performance numbers to third-party vendors primarily to attract new investors.Mon, 18 May 2026 13:54:16 GMTEconomicsLarry Swedroe (Larry Swedroe)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5d66ec83/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5d66ec83/Mondays are all about financial adviser-related links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at...Mon, 18 May 2026 13:41:17 GMTFinanceabnormalreturns (Abnormal Returns)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5b1dc412/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/5b1dc412/Private credit has become one of the most talked-about corners of the market, but much of the discussion revolves around the wrong metric.Mon, 18 May 2026 13:35:59 GMTEconomicsLarry Swedroe (Larry Swedroe)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/75f5a4c5/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/75f5a4c5/Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Stuxnet before StuMon, 18 May 2026 13:31:17 GMTTechnologyJack Clark (Jack Clark)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/d296b467/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/d296b467/“It’s the first time the police has sought this type of charge for a tweet,” Rima Hassan explained, a month after she was arrested and held in custody for charges relating to “terrorism apologia.” A pMon, 18 May 2026 13:25:57 GMTPoliticsRima Hassan (Jacobin)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/a92fe1e8/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/a92fe1e8/96 Priced for Perfection p{ margin:10px 0; padding:0; } table{ border-collapse:collapse; } h1,h2,h3,hMon, 18 May 2026 13:00:00 GMTFinanceCampaign Archive (Campaign Archive Newsletter)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/bf1f37e5/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/bf1f37e5/“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos first noticed that the Icelandic version of Dracula was in fact not a translation, but was rather a very different novel from Stoker’s version.” The “tMon, 18 May 2026 12:45:00 GMTCultureJason Kottke (Kottke.org)https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/4802cf6e/https://papertrails.rabbitholes.garden/article/4802cf6e/Most contemporary fiction will be forgotten. These books survived for a reason.Mon, 18 May 2026 12:29:56 GMTCultureLiza Libes (Pens and Poison)