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Enough Pentelic marble
In the early 19th century, the so-called Elgin marbles, once part of the facade of the Parthenon, were gathered as debris from the Acropolis in Athens…
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Sonic reducer
It’s a bit absurd that a band best known for an album called Young, Loud, and Snotty would be working on a new record as near septuagenarians.
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Reality raids
A few weeks ago, internet culture writers and link aggregators were sharing a voyeuristic site that randomly plays YouTube videos titled with the…
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November 2024

October 2024

Unnoticed
One of the few advantages of being as chronically disorganized as I am is that I can keep coming to the same “insights” that I had before but write…
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Habermas machines
Achieving consensus can be hard, so wouldn’t it be nice if a machine could produce it as a kind of consumption good?
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After the sunsets
As images of the recent aurora began flooding onto social media sites, Meta posted some fakes on its Twitter clone Threads, demonstrating that those who…
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This illimitable sentence-producing capacity
I had been wanting to read Fredric Jameson’s Fables of Aggression (1977) for a while, but as enticing and timely as the subtitle sounded to me — “the…
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Enough about me
The thing to write about in the “tech commentary” space this week is Google’s NotebookLM, a tool that lets users explore a set of documents through an…
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