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“My boating experience was minimal and that section of river was not for beginners, but I had scraped by enough times that my risk assessment was dangerously off-kilter. It was a really, really bad combination.” Congratulations—we made it to the weekend! We’ve got some unforgettable stories for you this week. First, Maggie Slepian recounts her […]
“Chinese culture can’t be made bite-sized for mass consumption.”
“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.”
Five longreads on artificial intelligence and a future filled with machine-written prose.
“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 […]
“OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?”
Pointless elitism, or an urgent dress rehearsal for the climate crisis?
“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”
