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There’s a lot to love in this New York Times profile of the Mister Softee/New York Ice Cream feud: “Let me tell you about this business,” Adam Vega, a thickly…

Last week, 12 refugee women from across the globe traveled through the South on a pilgrimage to see and learn from civil rights heroes that lived, fought and changed the country with their sacrifices.

What a perfect life it would be to find joy, not only at home, but at work too. This joyful life can be yours, according to Joseph Campbell.

Essays The End of Books What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library Sheila Liming Preserving the library alone will not rescue reading,…

May/June 2026Vol. XXXVIII No. 6 Lament for the MIT Libraries Elizabeth Cavicchi https://bit.ly/3Q36xNs Click to copy…

Oakland DIY music spaces of the early 21st century. A High Places show on the Bus, 2007. (Jhon Benson) The AC Transit bus pulls up to the West Oakland BART…

Babe Movie Script Full Dialogue

Cinematographer Roger Deakins uses his blog to pull back the curtain on the lighting tricks that have made him famous. Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista.…

Credit: Far Out / Alamy Behind the Iron Curtain: Elton John’s concert in defiance of the Cold War Callum MacHattie Sat 4 January 2025 8:00, UK Follow us on…

How quiet it is in autumn, a strange and unearthly quiet. Everything is just as it always was, it seems nothing has changed. Neither the marsh nor the farmland,…

For the most part, when I hear someone use the word “autofiction,” I stop listening to what that person is saying. Wikipedia defines the term as “a form of…

Sermon - JUNGIAN TRANSFERENCE IN REAL LIFE - Images from the Rosarium Philosophorum © Barbara F. Meyers 2002. All Rights Reserved. A sermon delivered at the…

In this 1971 conversation with Amos Vogel, the Italian master discusses The Conformist, newly restored and in theaters now, and more

Red, Brown, and Black, (1958) by Mark Rothko In 1943, Mark Rothko, with his friend the painter Adolph Gottlieb, wrote several philosophical statements that…

(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the…

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of software developers working on those systems failed to find. This capability will have major security implications, compromising the devices and services we use every day. As a result, Anthropic is not releasing the model to the general public, but instead to a ...

Emmanuel Carrère examines Philip K Dick in I Am Alive and You Are Dead. Michael Moorcock on one of science fiction's strangest sons.

Collision between a USAF B-52G and KC-135 over the Mediterranean Sea near Spain The Palomares accident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a United States Air…

India’s Jamnagar refinery, via Wikipedia. Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still…

By questioning the myth of the cowboy, he offered a different kind of legend, one more suited to this country and its contradictions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s (1749–1832) Maxims and Reflections is a terrific source of philosophical wisdom. The German writer, statesman, lawyer, playwright,…

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The Lede TMZ Gets Political The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians shirking their responsibility to the American…

Buddhist temple in Fukui Prefecture, Japan

An art historian locates the political in paint – Sasha Frere-Jones

Short CGI video, one of the earliest examples of a meme or viral video Screenshot of the dancing baby The "Dancing Baby", also called "Baby Cha-Cha" or "the…

Before we start off, just a note to say that the fact that last week’s post came out on Friday rather than Sunday doesn’t mean a change of schedule, it was…

The Horta Museum, Brussels, Belgium Photograph: Alixe Lay In 1898, architect and designer Victor Horta embarked on building himself a family house and studio in…

A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone, serving as the link between Van the sorta-pop star and Van the Man superstar.

Every college campus is an adventure, requiring advance planning on my part so that I am able to navigate as quickly as possible to radio stations that are…

In 1883, Sir Coutts Lindsay, owner of the Grosvenor Art Gallery in Bond Street, decided that he wanted to illuminate his paintings without the smoke produced by…

Joy Castro reviews Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” translated by Ann Goldstein.

On the logical fallacy of causal projection

In-depth review blending analysis of Alfred Jarry's The Supermale and Messalina, highlighting pataphysical themes, sexual excess, human limits, and expanded metatextual examples like ironic asides, fragmented Latin, and narrative parodies. References to Nietzsche, Freud, Cervantes, Brecht, Derrida, Joyce, and Bataille add intellectual layers.

A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.

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I've recently been contributing to the Pybricks project, a community-run port of MicroPython to Lego Mindstorms hardware. As part of that, I obtained a used…

I enjoy writing code. Let me get that out of the way first. The problem solving, the architecture decisions, the feeling when something clicks into place. That…

The world's a mess. FUBAR delivers your daily hit of dystopian news and satire — curated slop for your morning coffee. Updated daily. Let's suffer together.

Explore best practices and practical use cases for reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) with OpenAI models.

William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy d…

The Knockturnal spoke to filmmaker Sabrina Jaglom and curator of Hope Runs High, Taylor Purdee, about the NYC…

mystic and kabbalistic simbology related to life whose meaning depends on culture or religion

I. Introduction

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