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“Mets fans take a special pride in our anguish, in large part because we might have gone down an easier path. ‘I could have been happy. Could have been a Yankees fan.’” —Andrew Katzenstein
“The stock phrases of parental regret—‘We tried our best!’—are often exculpatory. When applied to a technology that might radically transform the human experience, they are simply unconscionable.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn on raising AI
Nicole Rudick on Huguette Caland at Lisson Gallery
“When we keep saying cinema is dead or dying, we lose sight of what we have actually lost and what might still be possible, even as so much about the art form continues to change.” —Dennis Lim, interviewed by Gabriel Winslow-Yost
“The Hill has a sculpted purity to it, formed by the absence of all the stuff that would fill [the narrator’s] life if she chose to actually live it.” —Laura Miller
“You learn different things at different stages of life, but the Observer, the onetime house paper of New York City’s power elite, is where I learned to develop a voice.” —an interview with Suzy Hansen
“It isn’t neurosis that has disabled the [Democratic] party’s response to authoritarianism. It’s pathological careerism.” —an interview with @josephoneill.bsky.social
Caroline Tracey (@cetracey.bsky.social) on the long history of proposals to suck up profits from the Great Salt Lake
“Libraries, by their benevolent nature, want to scatter,” Christian Donlan writes. Yet “constancy and stability are to be found...in the bright human impulse” that has “encouraged generations to keep [them] intact.”
Steve Hilton’s “British career had been largely about wrapping hard-right ideas in touchy-feely niceness,” writes @fotoole.bsky.social. “Silicon Valley…would want to do the same thing in reverse, ditching its ‘Don’t be evil’ credo for the joy of being evil.”
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The idea of home—in a city, in one’s body, in a corpus of visual art—runs through a new show of inventive work by the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland.
Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses
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“When we keep saying cinema is dead or dying, we lose sight of what we have actually lost and what might still be possible, even as so much about the art form continues to change.”
“One of my guiding principles as a white American writing about the US is that it’s important to include yourself in your analysis, to acknowledge your own complicity or at least involvement in the co...
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Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for
