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Guarding the guardians

Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work? - by Julien Lie-Panis Read on Aeon

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The next generation of AI businesses

The first generation was built on large models, demonstrating what could be done and powering many tools. The second generation is focused on reducing costs and saving time. Replacing workers or making them more efficient. But you can’t shrink your way to greatness. The third

Building a Lego-Powered Submarine

As you know, I love me some Lego engineering builds . This one is pretty fun: using a large syringe, a Raspberry Pi, neodymium magnets, a controller scavenged from a toy submarine, and a bunch of Lego pieces, Brick Experiment Channel built a remote-controlled submarine . And it

The Track

The Track is a documentary film about a group of athletes training in post-war Bosnia to make the Olympics in luge. The Track is a coming-of-age journey of three friends chasing their improbable Olympic dreams in post-war Bosnia. Training on a crumbling track left behind from

Required Reading

This week: Gladys Nilsson subverts ageist myths, letters from children in ICE detention, Heathcliff and whiteness, Toñita at the Super Bowl, Japanese incense clocks, and more.

“ ‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism...

“ ‘CEO said a thing!’ journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything being said is factually correct .”

“It’s Fine If I Suck Sometimes”

Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, I’m No Longer Interested in ‘Working on Myself’ , aka the exhausting “hyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk assessment exercise”. Everything began to feel like a diagnostic exercise. If