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In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband's murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.

Thomas Beller writes about Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the art-house movie theatre on New York’s Upper West Side that closed earlier this year.

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

Run a bunch of Claude Codes in Parallel. By Melty Labs.

PSA, the biggest authenticator of trading cards, has for years had a major loophole that left counterfeit cards appearing to be legitimate just because they had

Boekie Woekie is an artists’-run bookshop and gallery in Amsterdam that was founded in 1986 by a group of six artists. Soon Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch)…

By Oliver Nolan Little

- Show for Aug 25, 2013: Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles. It’s tempting, if you’re tempted by clichés, to call Orson Welles “larger than life.” But he was after all an ordinary mortal, however...

Challenged British Counterfeiting - A blog post from The Ephemera Society of America. Marbled edge paper was used to reduce counterfeiting

Discover the epic match between Go master Lee Sedol and AI AlphaGo. Explore how this historic confrontation transformed the world of Go and AI advancements.

The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This is a practical guide on how to do them yourself.

Elif Batuman examines a new collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s scientific drawings of butterflies, published by Yale University Press as “Fine Lines.”

They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.

American puppeteer. Remo Bufano’s bold, prolific imagination produced works that gave American puppetry a presence in the world of theatre for adults. In 1897, the Bufano family emigrated from Italy to the United States…

This application displays detailed training data for large language models (LLMs) on GPU clusters, showing performance metrics and configurations. Users can view the data through an interactive plot.

With its first signing, a moody Brit named Mark William Lewis, the auteurist film juggernaut starts a record label. Why?

Dusty Groove is Chicago's Online Record Store -- Jazz, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, R&B, Latin, Brazil, African, World Music, Avant, Rock, Blues & more LPs, CDs, vinyl records, albums, 45s, singles New & Used -- Dusty Groove is Chicago's Online Record Store

Deck houses could be your next mid-mod obsession.

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

Josh and Benny Safdie's Sight & Sound ballots gave fans an inside look at their favorite films.

Contrary to the popular notion, nostalgia is pretty much what it’s always been, judging by the latest offering from the Frommers (It Happened on Broadway, 1998, etc.).

The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, & the Human Spirit by Henry Kissinger, Schmidt & Mundie explore AI's transformative potential & existential dilemmas

Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Buchheim's Boot

Das Boot Script taken from a transcript of the screenplay and/or the J�rgen Prochnow movie

For some Christians, these machines were made “by the hand of the Devil."

The enduring problem of the relationship between leading political currents within organized labor, and those prevailing among African-Americans and black advocacy organizations, has once again become a central concern of the left.

William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an American Epic

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Musings of a Deep Learning Enthusiast.

Trials and hearings have been delayed since a judge ruled that Alina Habba was serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney. The uncertainty may last for months.

Klettergerüst, Sandkasten und Spaß: Spielplätze gehören zu deutschen Städten. Das ist seit 150 Jahren so. Damals wie heute war der Raum für Kinder knapp.

Gemini queries are getting cleaner and more efficient, according to data it published today, but their total carbon footprint is still growing.

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.