‘Possum In The Hen House

Open Thread

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Instacart Is Suing New York City Over Its $22.13 Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers

The Pope and the AI Profiteers

How Israel Can Prevent the Next October 7

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

The Rise of the UnJews

How Artemis II livestreamed hi-def videos and images from the moon to Earth

Bernie Sanders' Dangerous and Unconstitutional Plan to Expropriate AI Firms

Using AI to Test Policy Language

Democrats on House China committee decry dismissal of National Science Board

Open Thread

Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?

The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better

Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”

How Do You Define 'Ceasefire'?

Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole

AI Won’t Stave Off the Debt Disaster

Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics

The Iceman’s Microbiome