Five stories that make Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel feel like nonfiction.
Sam Kriss
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Politics After Literacy
“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: the appeal of the surreal, decoding AI dreck, goop relations, learning to think, and pigeon racing pitfalls
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Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
“If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive—and grating—voice.”
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How the Aztecs Predicted the Apocalypse
But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?
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What Happens When You Stare at the Sun?
“The injunction not to look directly into the sun isn’t just medical — it’s always political.”