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Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...
Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college degrees that are handed out…have much to do with a healthy economy.”
If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...
If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not Understand Where AI Is At . “There’s a huge gulf between a chatbot that’s just putting text into your brain and an agent that uses code to interact with an external environment.”
How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, though viewers raised on more recent Hollywood spectacles would hardly find its mechanized and optically printed avian attackers convincing. Still, the picture as a whole has retained its
Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People...
Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People (and don’t just treat them like ATMs). “The best of them are running campaigns that acknowledge that to win, Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.”
How I Became the Villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
Khosheutovsky khurul
The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The Native History of NYC's Oysters
Who needs IMAX? See a real papyrus fragment of Homer’s Odyssey at The Met.
How we meet the future
If we couldn’t make generalisations, we would be paralysed by the world’s complexity. Does that ever excuse stereotyping? - by Tom Ralston Read on Aeon
Give me one reason
When your project, proposal or resume is rejected, it’s tempting to try to understand why. Scrutinize the rejection letter and turn the short sentence into a paragraph or an essay, then play it over and over in your search for how to do better next time. If you can simply
Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More
When Pink Floyd recorded “Money” in 1972, Roger Waters spliced into the opening moments the sounds of cash registers, tearing paper, and jingling coins. Half a century later, the German drummer Sina Doering and her band performed those sounds live, using a bowl of loose change,
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment
The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.