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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air

Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

Hobbies Are Dying

Four months ago, my wife decided to learn embroidery.

Why ‘things to read instead of doomscrolling’ won’t actually fix your doomscrolling

A habit built solely to negatively drive out another will inevitably lead to either relapse or irritation

Three Modes of Cognition

Intelligence is not elemental.

Upskilling, not ISAs

Mitt Romney’s checks plan: up to $350 per month, per kid for parents

Seth’s Top 100

‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti

Russia Has Massed 500 Tanks For An Attack On Kupyansk. Thousands Of Ukrainian Drones Await Them.

Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Breaking the Busy Stigma, Finding Essentialness, and Transcending Bullshit | Goop

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

Why do we need to be right?

American torture

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

The Translator’s Funeral, a new short story by Rónán Hession

On writing better documents

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

| J. Krishnamurti

¡A´hooo!, el grito de resistencia de Los cogelones, desde Neza

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Better logging with Emoji

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S.

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

How poetry can make us both laugh and think (providing added reasons to read it)

Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens to Destroy the iPhone as You Know It'

Spotify Invents A New Way To Recommend Music—By Monitoring Your Speech

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

5 ways to support parents right now

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)

Sweet syrupy love

Billions of Locusts Are Swarming East Africa

How creatives win friends, influence people and break the internet

Preparing For The End Of The World, On A Budget