Love Language - Longreads — “The undying dream of Esperanto.“
“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other — Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to …
Here are the winners of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards. — The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the…
Generational Storytelling: Writing For My Grandmother and My Daughter — When my Icelandic grandmother, my amma, was in her early eighties, my mom took her to the doctor for a check-up. By then, Amma was hard of hearing and had Alzheimer’s. She didn’t catch what the doc…
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UN urges probe into deaths in Pakistani-administered Kashmir unrest — Kashmir clashes have killed 31 since June, leading UN rights chief Volker Turk to appeal for calm.
How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives - Longreads — "A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park."
Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip — I am on a personal campaign to give the travel sphere something no one asked for but definitely—and desperately—needs, an Indigenous perspective. Whether European newcomers know it or not, tribal p…
Explore a rare collection of LGBTQ+ children’s books dating back to 1969. — The Mechanics’ Institute, one of the oldest cultural institutions on the West Coast, is now home to a thrilling archive of LGBTQ+ children’s literature. The Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families …
Cameron beats Mayer to become unified light-middleweight champion — Chantelle Cameron produced one of the finest displays of her career to beat Mikaela Mayer and add the WBA and WBC light middleweight titles to her WBO belt.
This actor was told he had Alzheimer's, now he's performing a one-man show — Peter Marinker is taking on one of Samuel Beckett's most famous plays alone on a London stage.
The Business of Watches Podcast: Armin Strom Co-Founders And Top Executives Serge Michel and Claude Greisler — The independent brand co-founders talk watchmaking, marketing, innovation and how they developed their unique take on the concept of resonance in horology.
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (potential) Unravelling — Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 prove open models can reach the frontier. Why the economics of frontier labs favor infrastructure owners — and why Anthropic's model-only position risks unravelling.
Where Wild Things Go — Rummaging through the classics.
Apple's WWDC keynote was very different, but this will be the new normal — Yesterday’s WWDC 2026 keynote was a very different beast to its predecessors – and not just because the company spent...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination — By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Demon Sacrifices and Sailing the Fae Seas: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — There’s nothing like a summer reading challenge to get you into the proper mindset for the season. Many of us grew up on personal pizzas as the reward for reading a certain number of books; these d…
Cannibalism — For a long time the tech industry revelled in the distruption of what it saw as old, legacy industries. But now, as AI takes over tech, we’re now starting to eat our own, and it’s dark and ironic.
The First Reviews of Every Raymond Chandler Novel — I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. Today marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of Raymond Chandler, patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction…
Proof Of Care in the Age of A.I. – Jacob Filipp
Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, Emeline Atwood and more: 21 new books out today! — It’s July, and it’s time to be absolutely inundated with summer novels. This week, we’re treated to the new book by North Woods author Daniel Mason, Country People, the hotly anti…
Shop window or new chance - what next for Grealish? — Jack Grealish made an unexpected return to the Manchester City team on Sunday - so what could his future hold?
Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI. — In a moving message this weekend, Pope Leo XIV spoke out against the rising tide of AI and urged his followers to recommit to a radical humanism. The message—delivered in the form of an encyclical …
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The Wrong Girls Has A Ty Segall Score, A Mannequin Pussy Cameo, And Sheer Mag In The Opening Credits — A good stoner movie always needs a good soundtrack. And the new Dylan Meyer film The Wrong Girls, which hit theaters Friday, appears to have the soundtrack to match. Not only…
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Video: Workers rescued from hydro tunnel nine days after Nepal flooding — Two workers have been pulled alive from a hydropower tunnel nine days after deadly flash flooding hit Nepal.
IBM Shares Surge as Old Clip of Trump Praise Recirculates Online — A nearly six-month old video of Donald Trump praising International Business Machines Corp.’s CEO sent the shares surging almost 9% on Monday, adding more than $24 billion to the company’s stock-market value.
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W — “The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being — “You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and,…
UEFA opens disciplinary case against Fenerbahce’s Guendouzi and Greenwood — Guendouzi and Greenwood made provocative gestures towards the Lyon supporters after their Champions League playoff.
Peters ties White Sox record with homer in 5th straight game — Rookie Tristan Peters homered in a fifth straight game for the White Sox on Wednesday night, tying a franchise record.
The Ferry Boat Children - Longreads — "For the children of south Mull, secondary school means leaving home age eleven. Their parents' silence was never consent."
Why England's loss to Argentina felt like most painful in 60 years of hurt — England's years of hurt will now stretch beyond 60, but the late collapse to a World Cup semi-final defeat by Argentina may be the most painful wound of all.
On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation — A decade and change ago, Paul Elie taught a class that I found formative. Its focus was first books, and he talked about each assignment in revelatory terms, prodding us graduate stu
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Discover Your Family Name Origins & Meaning — Search our database of 49,000+ surnames to uncover your family history, original meanings, and earliest recorded instances.
Isaiah Rashad’s Confessions — The Tennessee rapper reflects on sobriety, the scrutiny he faced after his sexuality was publicized, and a new album that fittingly covers his past five years: “It’s Been Awful.”
Christopher Nolan’s Plot to Change the Way We Watch Movies — We used to worry about people going to the cinema at all; now film lovers are making pilgrimages to one of the twenty-five theatres in the country equipped to project “The Odyssey” in its intended format: IMAX 70-mm.
My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 — From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Letters from Our Readers — Readers respond to Melanie Thernstrom’s profile of the gynecologist Sally Greenwald, Nikhil Krishnan’s review of “How to Kill a Language,” by Sophia Smith Galer, and Louis Menand’s piece about Andres Serrano’s photograph “Piss Christ” and America’s…
Goldman's Bordlemay Sees `Ping-Pong' Pattern for Stocks — Katherine Bordlemay, co-head of client portfolio management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, expects to see a ``ping-pong of volatility'' continue in US stocks even as major indexes grind higher. She says stronger…
Golf brand apologises for advert that shows woman being pushed over — Content creator Good Good apologises and removes an advert that shows a woman being pushed to the ground as she reached for a man's golf club.
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) ~ The Technology Community Podcast — Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations | Oxide Computer Company — How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
UFC's Nascimento, 34, dies after apparent heart attack — MMA fighter Allan Nascimento dies at the age of 34, says the sport's leading promotion the UFC.
Posthumous Jennifer Finch Memoir Announced — The late L7 bassist's Shooting Up and Making Out: A Memoir of My Life in LA and L7 hits shelves in January 2027
The Anti-Sunscreen Movement Is Coming for You - Longreads — "Sunscreen—one of the only products scientifically proven to reduce the risk of skin cancer—is in the middle of a PR crisis, with skeptics claiming it’s hazardous to your health. Experts dismiss the claims as…
YouTube creators are using fake Dolly Parton images — AI slop has come for Dolly.
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines — | Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a…
How much storage does a smart TV typically have? — Smart TVs store lots of data, and the amount they have to work with is often quite low. There are ways to maximize your storage space, though.
Google Assistant is dying next month, but Gemini is still missing these features — The clock is ticking.
The Healing Power of Humor | Dr. Kristen Wynns | TEDxRaleigh — What if humor is more than entertainment-and actually a tool for healing? Clinical psychologist and stand-up comedian Dr. Kristen Wynns explores how humor can help us create connection, cope with adversity, and…
Belkin introduces its first longer-lasting semi-solid-state power banks — Belkin is the latest company to embrace safer battery technology.
Rapidly Swelling Lakes Spur New Flood Warnings in Nepal, China — Rescuers scoured river valleys in Nepal and China on Friday in search of hundreds of people missing after a torrent of mud, rocks and ice tore through the area, as authorities warned that rivers blocked with…
Veteran political journalist on division among Democrats over democratic socialism — NPR's Michel Martin speaks with CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein about the Democratic Party's division over embracing democratic socialism.