Jürgen Habermas has passed away. Der Mann einder Epoche. Ein leidenschaftlicher Aufklärer, bis zuletzt. Avec le décès de Jürgen Habermas disparaît un des rares contemporains que l’on pouvait, sans hésiter ni galvauder le terme, qualifier de philosophe.
Some people thrive on a couple of hours of sleep. I'm not one of them.
Solvej Balle’s time loop.
Chantal Akerman’s predicament.
Schubert’s imagination.
Emerging evidence suggests that LLM outputs can shape the text and thoughts of human users. "A growing number of papers report that people tend to pick up writing patterns, reasoning methods and even opinions from the large language models (LLMs) they use. Some researchers say that this influence threatens to create a sameness in human writing and warn that the effect could even extend to text written by humans who aren’t first-hand AI users."
Maison Margiela ouvre les coulisses de sa création au public.
László Krasznahorkai Nobel Prize lecture.
Art and dress in the time of Caravaggio.
Why rivers in the far north are turning orange.
Seal and sea lion brains have evolved to support volitional control of vocal behavior and learning.
The irresistible myth of the Brontë sisters.
For Archimedes, the mathematical and physical worlds were as real as each other and mutually reinforcing.
Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it.
Inside the ‘kill zone’. Drones are reshaping Ukraine’s frontline — and the future of warfare.
Call of Duty, Epic Fury: pourquoi la Maison-Blanche montre la guerre d’Iran comme un jeu vidéo.
For most of history, parents couldn’t buy their kids dolls, action figures, or the like. Then playtime became big business.
Financial Times profile of Michael Sandel.
U.S. rail service is optimized for freight, not passengers.