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The world’s most significant and groundbreaking filmmakers of color will gather to showcase their work in Philadelphia August 6-9.
This might be my new favorite skate video ? It follows a pair of young skaters around the city as they chat about their friendship, share tips about living life, and try skating everything that is even remotely skateable. Best friends, Ari and Luca are two of the most
“It’s been called ‘one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.’ It remains unsolved. But what happened next is almost a worse crime.”
Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t, then we are not as sovereign as we imagine; if we can’t, a machine god has already taken over this planet, and it’s called the market.”
"Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis."
The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Phoenix Ancient Art funneled objects of shaky provenance into dozens of museums. Why are many of them still there?
We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured - by David Robson Read on Aeon
When we upgrade something in our lives, the thing we used to be satisfied with is no longer satisfying. That’s the nature of an upgrade. After a certain point, the only thing we’re buying is the way the upgrade makes us feel in the moment, not our satisfaction going forward.
It’s no small project to found a new society, especially when you’re doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the considerable practical challenges it entails, there’s also the need for symbols bold enough to represent the underlying ideal. The avant-garde
I admit, I sometimes pay a premium at a certain dinner theater chain with a lobby-slash-bar designed to look like classic indie video stores of yore. It’s not only the padded recliners and half-decent grub that keeps me coming back. Nope, it’s the rules. Printed on the menu are
“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and the time of stars, our transient lives
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word "philosopher."