movies Thought-provoking list of 1980s movies that shaped our humanity Andrea James

star trek On "Kirk drift," the strange mass cultural misremembering of Captain Kirk Caroline Siede

video Great video essay on John Carpenter's 'They Live' Andrea James

art "When arts die, they turn into hobbies." Andrea James

art A whole book about That One Matt Bors Comic Rob Beschizza

Technology Kevin Kelly rereads his big weird book from 1994 and mostly stands by it Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Anthropic's most powerful model comes with a kill switch aimed at you Ellsworth Toohey

mexico The promise of Mexico's Tren Maya has gone off the rails Séamus Bellamy

podcasts A murderer's daughter listened to a podcast about her dad and got physically sick Mark Frauenfelder

Internet Library of Leng archives decades of articles about Magic: The Gathering Rob Beschizza

Are AI-written "slop grenades" filling your comms? Rob Beschizza

books Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews Ellsworth Toohey

Technology What Claude thinks of Kevin Kelly's essay about Claude Mark Frauenfelder

Science Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real Ellsworth Toohey

nostalgia Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds Gail Sherman

Technology The case for thinking of yourself as a meat-based language model Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930 Ellsworth Toohey