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Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?
“Many owners think so, thanks to the ‘talking buttons’ craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.”
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Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing
“Sarah Viren talks to the author of ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.’”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Best of 2021: Personal Essays
The personal essays that we can’t stop thinking about.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas
“Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Posted inNonfiction
All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards
Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
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Death of Writing, Writing of Death: A Reading List on Artificial Intelligence and Language
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
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Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia
“The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”
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The Greatest Scam Ever Written
“They were believers—in astrology, in psychics, in fortune telling—who longed for transformation, salvation, fortune.”
