‘Idiocracy’ Predicted All of This — Twenty years later, Mike Judge’s prescient comedy is getting harder to laugh at.
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Giro hacia el libre mercado de Cuba no logra convencer a EE.UU. — Cuba enfrenta dificultades para convencer al gobierno de Donald Trump de que sus reformas económicas más ambiciosas en décadas son suficientes para impulsar los cambios que exige Estados Unidos. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Greta Lee, Rebecca Ferguson, and Carrie Coon Rom-Com ‘Honeymoon/Funeral’ Lands at Black Bear — 'Honeymoon/Funeral,' a romantic comedy starring Greta Lee, Rebecca Ferguson, and Carrie Coon, has been acquired by Black Bear.
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Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between — Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of syllables. Margaret told researchers in Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith’s s…
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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War — It was the autumn of 1865—a quiet, bitter autumn after four hollowing years of war—when James Gilmore received a manuscript from a ghost. Well, not a ghost exactly. There’d been rumors, of course, …
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — 1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright) 2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright) 3. Live Laugh Love: The Secret…
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Architects Office uses mass-timber scrap as "immense jigsaw" for São Paulo pavilion — <p>Local studio Architects Office has used leftover glued-laminated timber of varying sizes and traditional joinery methods to construct a pavilion between apartment buildings in São Paulo,…
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Researchers Find a Mathematical Pattern Used in City Planning Hidden in the Leaves of a Common Houseplant — The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing…
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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech — “Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears…
India's Sitharaman on Rupee Stabilization Efforts — Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the concerns that India's currency could experience volatility, and reiterates that the country's macroeconomic fundamentals are sound. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…
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Capturing a Literary Icon: Beowulf Sheehan on Photographing Cormac McCarthy — Tuesday, August 12. My photo assistant Chika and I arrive at the Santa Fe Institute, Cormac’s home away from home, and load equipment into the library. Cormac is early, chatting up the kitchen staf…
How To Write With An LLM — Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.
An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise — Tim Curry, who died this week at 80, will probably always be best known for his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not unreasonably. With his snug corset and un…
Writing is Magic: Why We Should All Follow Our Literary Dreams — I was reading one of Jules Verne’s novels when I first experienced the magic of writing. The heroes had just crashed their balloon in the desert. The heat was relentless. They had run out of food d…
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights — Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist — “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.”
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An incomplete list of people reading The Catcher in the Rye in movies. — Today, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye turns 75. Despite mixed early reviews, the book quickly became a touchstone of American literature, and an icon of American culture in general. I…
Is the First-Person Narrator a Uniquely American Idea? — “I am an American, Chicago born,” begins Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first…
The Rhyl Poster — They’d ‘met’, then, in Switzerland: in the Italian part, Ticino, beside Lake Maggiore. To be precise: above it, on a mountain. The International Association for Emergent Legal Theory had convened a…
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I Made You Up Inside My Head — Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where n…
2026 NFL rookies guide: Stat leaders, fantasy picks, top QBs — Here's what to know about this group of rookies, including Rookie of the Year front-runners, fantasy favorites and QB updates.
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education — “While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
Dreams vs goalsPlan B gives permission to fail. | Haitham Al-Haidiri | TEDxDPS Monarch Intl School — Mr. Haitham kicked off the event with a high-energy talk centered on a singular philosophy: "Plan B gives permission to fail. " He illustrated the power of undivided focus. He…
“Simple Recipes” — There is a simple recipe for making rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child. Back then, I used to sit up on the kitchen counter watching him, how he sifted the grains in his hands, sure …
Ditching Zotero for a Text File — Usable Security, Human-Computer Interaction & AI, from a UNIX perspective.
WHO says no plague case registered after Russian lab worker’s death — The WHO says the lack of a confirmed diagnosis remains a key uncertainty, with no sign of ongoing transmission.
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have officially teamed up to end coverage gaps — This is likely an attempt to get ahead of potential rivals like Starlink and Leo.
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What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work — Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in literary history, one of the literati of the post-Toni Morrison era, trained at elite schools (Trinity School, Harvard), highly attuned to nuances of ra…
Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101 — Weird girl lit is having a moment. From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredi…
Market Will Be Disappointed By Warsh: Gerrity — Kelley Gerrity, fixed income client portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." They discuss Gerrity's expectations ahead of Fed chair Kevin Warsh's speech tomorrow at…
Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference — Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference
Lit Hub Daily: September 22, 2026 — “The audience is present even when no one else is in the room.” David Pakman examines just how far the need to perform for digital spectators has seeped into real life. | Lit Hub Techno…
Chris Mason: In the room with the president and the prime minister — Burnham seemed nervous at first, knowing how explosive these encounters with Trump can be, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.
Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk — After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.
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