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Via the always engrossing Quantum of Sollazzo newsletter , we were at first a bit repelled by this project by Sean Goedecke to build a neve...

  First spied as we approached the campsite, we took a trip up to the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, the remains of a strategically located c...

Although it is justified to dismiss artificial intelligence and large language models as exalted extensions of auto-correct and predictiv...

Revisiting the poem by Martin Niemöller as the framework for understanding the descent of America (and elsewhere) into fascism, Cory ...

Via JWZ , we really enjoyed this considered and thoroughgoing declaration by an inveterate and unapologetic AI hater , Anthony Moser, t...

levi strauss waltz : fledging Jefferson Airplane’s commercials for blue jeans  moral high-ground : despite what justice we might entrust to ...

Via Web Curios , we are directed to a rather thoroughgoing and detailed dissertation to temper shortcomings and disappointment over art...

A couplet of recent postings about synthetic geology caught our eye—first about the accelerated process of material formation reduced to d...

alligator auschwitz : Trump’s Florida detention centre is by every definition a concentration camp solvitur ambulando : when in doubt, go fo...

We really enjoyed this essay from Aeon Magazine contributor Cameron Allen McKean that looks below the fold of the memes and tropes to exa...

Our gratitude to Weird Universe for the introduction to the singular esoteric by the name of Harvey Spencer Lewis, revivalist Rosicrucian...

Having come to a similar epiphany at a point in life I considered fairly late and doubting maturity—but perhaps this sort of realisation...

Being obsessed with the philosophical and cosmological question of Fermi’s Paradox and having considered the Great Filter beforehand, ...

Guardian contributor Alexander Hurst , reflecting on a recent roadtrip with a friend from Washington, DC to New Orleans—in part retracing...

We really enjoyed this essay , courtesy of fellow peripatetic Messy Nessy Chic , on how to rewild one’s browsing experience chocked full o...

i don’t belong here : reactions of first time listeners to Radiohead’s “Creep”  auragraphs : a look at the psychic paintings of Flora Marian...

Via New Shelton wet/dry , we found this critique from the political and literary forum the B oston Review to be quite resonant as we he...

johnny 5 : artificial intelligence and inkblot tests— see previously   hop-on, hop-off : a new train route through Central Europe allows...

With the above incipit , we learn that back in mid-January, Francis issued a papal bull —as Web Curios informs —on artificial intelligence...

Having pinned the obsession with our devices and the dopamine hits that they provide to the allegory of Narcissus —and by extension a Sis...