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Shayla Love at Psyche: In a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002),Nicolas Cage, playing the writer Charlie Kaufman, sits in front of his typewriter paralysed with writer’s block. Cage’s mouth
Continue readingWhat Films and Literature Reveal About the Voice in Your Head
Elliott Smith at MS LatAm: As the data and results from Guacamaya and PrevisIA continue to grow and be refined, the goal is for other countries to replicate these projects
Continue readingAI May Hold a Key to the Preservation of the Amazon Rainforest
I’m still not sure I really saw the car—shiny redon a day that was a long green nap—go airborne. I saw the utility pole it had hit tremble—testingitself against electric
by Habib Khan, Quetta: Last week, fans of the Tottenham Hotspur football Club in England supported their opponents, the Manchester City, and wanted City to win. This was because, in
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically
James Stewart in The New York Times: It’s been 14 years since Goldman Sachs was vilified as a “vampire squid” by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. “Organized greed always defeats disorganized
Continue readingIn the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage But Greed Is Still King
Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post: It is one of the recurring plotlines in the psychodrama of U.S. politics: A talented and charismatic young reformer goes to Washington, is hailed for
Continue readingThe Education of Lina Khan, Whose Superpower is Busting Monopolies
Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. –African Proverb “It’s about one-sided stories”, said Sanam. “In other words, when people in power or in
By Sam Wasson at Air Mail: I haven’t seen Megalopolis, the new, four-decades-in-the-making film by Francis Ford Coppola, but I don’t have to know whether it’s good, bad, or, like
Continue readingFrancis Ford Coppola Fears His $100m Opus Megalopolis May Never Reach Theaters
They knock over everything, boys and girls,hardly more than instruments waiting to be played;hardly more than rivers waiting to be navigated,waiting to be damned; hardly more than songswaiting for their
A WhatsApp Share: The Ottoman Empire’s soldiers were given meat loaves and spices by their wives before they step out to fight battles. These soldiers would cut them into very
A flooded town, brawl in parliament, a boat, cold lava cascades, a prisoner at a hearing, replastering of a mud-brick building, and more… A brawl in Taiwan’s parliament after tempers