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Introducing Claude Opus 4.6

We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often …

The battery invented 120 years before its time

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is …

What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us

Will the proliferation of mobile ordering destroy civic life?

Cool It, Krugman

The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist

How design factored into "the mother of all tech demos"

Herman Miller designer Jack Kelly recalls the setup for the seminal demo.

Inside WallStreetBets, the Reddit army that's rocking Wall Street - CNN

The New Kinship Engineering - The New Atlantis

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.

Why do we need to be right?

Pokémon Legends: Arceus Review

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

Katy: a short story by Bryan Washington

9 Questions Interesting People Ask to Cut Through the Small Talk

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

An Astronaut's Guide to Mental Models

| J. Krishnamurti

On writing better documents

The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts.

American torture

Choosing Love: Scarlett Lewis on Overcoming Tragedy

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

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

Is the "Death Drive" Real?

Upskilling, not ISAs

Diamonds Aren’t Special and Neither Is Your Love

Better logging with Emoji

Deliberate Anti-Productivity

The Untold History of Facebook’s Most Controversial Growth Tool

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

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

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

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

Thunder in Her Head - The American Scholar

Media that matters: Peter Walker talks Digital Media Art

5 ways to support parents right now

Learning to Love in the Wilds of Our Bodies - Gay Mag