A long time ago, football coaches realized that watching previous games was a good way to help players learn to do better. Alas, the only thing we do with “this call may be recorded…” is use it as a cudgel for unempowered shift workers. If we actually want to improve our
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Even if we didn’t make it to a screening of Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation this past summer — and indeed, even if we’ve never read Homer’s original epic at all — we know that the Odyssey tells the story of a ten-year-long journey back to Ithaca. The narrative’s
Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer it away from recreating someone else’s specific [video] game” . (From a few days ago but I just saw it…)
And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy Letterboxd for a reported price of $330 million.
Salon, one of the last OG general interest web publications, is shutting down . “When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place.” And: “We have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable.”
In 1980, civil rights hero Rosa Parks appeared on To Tell the Truth, a long-running game show. Parks appeared alongside two other women claiming to be Parks and a celebrity panel tried to guess the identity of the true Parks. See also the appearance of a Lincoln assassination
In his memoiristic new book, photographer Mark Alice Durant weaves his personal experiences into a larger rebuke of the economic inequality that governs the art world.
Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales breaching one after another . Incredible. Also available on YouTube .
Brace yourself for A-listers strutting down the red carpet in everyday garb like jeans, T-shirts, and "humble, even 'disposable' materials."
Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy’s 17th-century group portrait of an Amsterdam wine guild will be the star of a pop-up restoration studio that museumgoers can peer into.
Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at 200 wpm — it measures mouth movements with radar? Like many things these days, this is very technically interesting but also creepy and dystopian.
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Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis Crowley wrote about it . “Dozens of current and former Foursquare employees have reached out to me to express their frustration with the leadership that led the company to this outcome.”
For a 1992 conceptual art piece called The Hunt , Christian Jankowski survived for a week on goods he shot at the local supermarket with a bow and arrow. To rebel against modern society, to return to nature: in pursuit of these primeval instincts, for one week, Jankowski lived
The mega gallery is struggling, Ebony L. Haynes joins Marian Goodman Gallery, longtime Manifesta director steps down, and more in Art Movements.
Paul Ford : “The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for building applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.”
Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose too much blood. An 80-cent plastic bag is helping solve the problem . “The drape is not an A.I. thing — it’s the absolute opposite: It’s a simple, simple, intervention that can solve our problems.”
For an upcoming blog post, I’m collecting a list of small businesses that are worth bypassing Amazon for. Holiday shopping is around the corner, and sometimes people want to put in the effort to buy something that takes more than a click. Folks like Burlap and Barrel, Gramercy
The artist’s work is glorious and resonant, but the Museum of Modern Art has a space problem, or an elegance problem, or a crowd mitigation problem.
A growing list of brands to avoid because they are “actively engaged in the enshittification playbook” (many post-acquisition by private equity), including Dr. Martens, Pyrex, Hoka, rag & bone, Ray-Ban, Black+Decker, Hunter Boot, Craftsmen, and more.
Generously funded, renowned faculty and visiting artists, spacious studios, and an exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
To create this composite image , photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. This is the most time-consuming photo edit I’ve EVER done! I left my camera photographing the night sky over Mt
I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind . “To anyone who has lived under dictatorship, the pattern is instantly recognizable. Dictators start by instilling fear. They exploit uncertainty to manufacture loyalty.”
How to become an "antischolar" in a culture that treats knowledge as "an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order."
"How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel 'at war with an enemy that does not fight back.'”
Her painting “Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I” was stashed in an East Village closet for decades. Now it might sell for up to $3 million.
In Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela, low-paid labour fuels the driverless future of the Global North - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
"As his brain healed over the next six months, however, something remarkable happened, something that would land Edward in the annals of neuroscience case history."
I need order and routine – just as much as I crave excitement and variety. What’s life like with both autism and ADHD? - by Sarah Hendrickx Read on Aeon
The Colombian artist reflects on the state’s attempts to erase history, and the people’s continued refusal. Also: How should artists decide whether to participate in documenta 16?
Our lives are defined not by what we have but what we give — on what and whom we spend our energy and time, how we share our material possessions and our mental powers, what we do with our gifts. “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie