Perceptions

"The Quality of Counsel's Filings Further Deteriorated"

The Unique Resilience of Iran’s Theocracy

Trevor Paglen On AI, Classical Music, His Favorite Painting, etc.

Words Without Consequence

Love Anyway

Rubio’s Silk-Stocking Diplomacy

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

A plant ‘vaccine’ takes on corn rootworm, a fearsome pest

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Perceptions

Perceptions

“LLMs are cliché machines, trained on a resilient human weakness for generating maximum content with minimum effort”

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries

Another New Mexico Cop Lauded for Nabbing Drunk Drivers Admits Taking Bribes To Let Them Off the Hook

Victims and villains

No Qualified Immunity for Arrest over "Fuck Trump" and "Fuck Biden" Flags

DHS Again Promises a Thorough Investigation of a Fatal Shooting After Prejudging the Outcome

The Coming Crypto Apocalypse