Category: Lifestyle
Can a War Ever Be Just?
Phil Klay shares his views at Wisdom of Crowds: Morality and War: Two words that…
Say Hello to AI Steve, the AI Chatbot Running for Parliament in the UK
By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: It’s a year of elections, and the internet is…
How Autocrats Weaponize Chaos
By Michiko Kakutani in Time Magazine: The confluence of multiplying political, economic, and social crises…
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Daniel Bessner at Harper’s Magazine: In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena…
American Cricket Found a Star. He’s a Silicon Valley Tech Worker.
Pranshu Verma in The Washington Post: Saurabh Netravalkar finds it hard to log off Slack. But…
Shikarpur’s Balconies and Brackets
by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro at Youlin Magazine: I have been documenting Shikarpur’s cultural heritage since…
Tomiwa Owolade: My New York Intellectuals
Leonard Benardo‘s note at Ideas Letter: The New York Intellectuals were a hallowed group of…
How AI is Going to Transform Civilization Over the Next 5-10 Years
Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized: My friend Leopold Aschenbrenner, who I got to know and respect…
The New-Old Authoritarianism
From Project Syndicate: Over the past decade, Ruth Ben-Ghiat has emerged as one of the…
A Deep Dive Into New York’s Subways With Ed Hotchkiss
Lawrence Weschler at Wondercabinet: Ed Hotchkiss was born in Denver in 1956 and remained thereabouts…
Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist? Not on This Planet.
by Sam Pizzigati at Inequality: One person, one vote. The classic essence of democracy. But…
Do Less. It’s Good for You.
Jamie Ducharmie in Time Magazine: You take a vacation day, but get distracted by the thought of…