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“Ritual is an urge and an act; it’s an aesthetic gesture. As an adult I established the habit of turning my attention to those subtle seasonal details and recording them. I was loving and honoring the land, but this practice still left something undone. A certain clarity, maybe formality. Something like a frame around a […]
Pointless elitism, or an urgent dress rehearsal for the climate crisis?
“Chinese culture can’t be made bite-sized for mass consumption.”
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
“When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.”
“OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?”
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
“The HBO show was known for witty jabs and f-word-laden insults. But perhaps its biggest achievement was ending on its own terms—and its writing through lines along the way.”
“While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality—and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others”
“The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.”
