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When we moved to Munich in 2024 I wanted a bicycle, but I could never settle on which one to buy. An e-bike, a nice hybrid, a folding bike? The choices were endless and the whole thing felt overwhelming, so I did nothing. I never got one...
Album of the Week, July 11, 2026 Laurie Anderson might have started the 1980s as the definitive performance artist who also happened to sing, but her last album of the decade posited her as a singer who also happened to be a performance...
A reflection on fear and the profound exchange of obedience for intimacy.
Less than a year after introducing its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas to the world, OpenAI recently shut it down. My guess is the team decided to make a bet on building an AI browser, but the product wasn’t really working, and Google...
Since the US has decided, in a bout of Cold War nostalgia, to bring back the years when encryption counted as a munition (if you’re reading this in the far future when we have cheap RAM, both Fable and GPT 5.6 were, for a bit, subject to...
You might think that black holes suck in light without letting it escape, but they actually concentrate light in the photon sphere which surrounds their horizon. In a recent paper, researchers created a new type of laser which...
In the process of seeing and doing things, firm principals acquire “inside” info on the future value of their firm, and on the wisdom of particular firm decisions. It often makes sense for firms to want such inside info to be reflected...
Miles Glacier and Van Cleve glacier lake (VC) near its maximum size on June 19th and after drainage on July 9th in Sentinel images. Glacier margin black dots. Miles Glacier terminates in an embayment on the east side of the Copper River,...
This summer, a man claiming to be a 5,900-year-old alien warlord from the planet Sigma IX will contest a byelection in the British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea.The performance is among the most ludicrous works of science fiction of...
I could sit still for hours, staring out the window, watching and listening to the rain as it strikes the metal and the hard floor below. The sound makes me lose track of time entirely. It's therapeutic in that it often heals me. But it...
As part of my World Cup-themed Wiki dives, I’ve been digging into profiles of great players. Some of them I knew, some of them not so much. Thanks to YouTube, I’ve also been able to see these masters in action. These include : Eden...
As part of my World Cup-themed Wiki dives, I’ve been digging into profiles of great players. Some of them I knew, some of them not so much. Thanks to YouTube, I’ve also been able to see these masters in action. These include : Eden...
Orwellian. Haha just my little joke there. Grim and funny – as one expects from Orwell – set in London, 1936. A dismal anticapitalist poet rails against the evils of money and advertising, packs in his job as a copywriter and wallows in...
Everyone looks for a door. A door like Jesus, who is an opening in the shape of man. A lacuna between the worlds, like Mary, who is a wound in the shape of woman. Everyone looks for a portal leading to an empty chamber filled with secret...
Photo: IBM Selectric I Typewriter, By Steve Iodefink, License: CC BY 2.0 The concept of birth year collecting has fascinated me in the last year or two. The idea of seeking out objects that were produced in the year you were born has an...