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When I look at a lot of what I’ve been writing for the last few years it’s infrequent and too often about things and not enough of what I think about

When we die we always leave things unfinished.

James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Addi

the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (

The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn

When we die we always leave things unfinished.

I want to write when I've had a strange thought on a train, or when I'm working something out and writing it down is the only way to do it. Without it

When I look at a lot of what I’ve been writing for the last few years it’s infrequent and too often about things and not enough of what I think about

A single person armed with Stripe, Shopify, cloud software, automated bookkeeping, and now AI can do what once required a small staff. Dynamism had be

Substack’s killer feature — email distribution — allows writers to get much larger and more loyal audiences, and to make a lot more money by charging

If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direc

these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no

The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist identified precisely this pattern in patients with right hemisphere brain damage. They remain art

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

The moment some obscure demo drops, it’s everywhere, Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram, whatever. Everyone knows about it instantly. That sen

these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no

It's not even optimistic to say we have to try, it's just necessary. To give up, to stop trying, is to accept that things can't change. As Audre Lorde

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

It's not even optimistic to say we have to try, it's just necessary. To give up, to stop trying, is to accept that things can't change. As Audre Lorde

Geese is doing what a band should be doing. A young band should be blowing people’s minds and dividing people in a weird way. It’s exciting.

AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over

Jon Carmanica spends the majority of his time fawning over pop-confections like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny or Kacey Musgraves. The pop that “matters” to

I want to push for the idea that a record doesn’t have to mean something. That the point of music isn’t always to decode it and extract meaning from i

We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined

There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists.Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are

I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a ye

when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the

Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. F

We can hope that America will be kinder, more graceful, more compassionate, more sincerely devoted to all people being created equal and entitled to l

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are

When American students want a safe space, it’s because they don’t want to hear threatening ideas. For Ukrainian students, safety means learning withou

The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practicall

We have to advance the public’s understanding of science. We need people to understand that when scientists change their mind, it’s a feature, not a b

When American students want a safe space, it’s because they don’t want to hear threatening ideas. For Ukrainian students, safety means learning withou

Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Ken

Byron is my AI writing partner — powered by ChatGPT, shaped by a 7-page writing profile we built together. He doesn’t write for me, but with me. When

by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigat

We have to advance the public’s understanding of science. We need people to understand that when scientists change their mind, it’s a feature, not a b

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over

by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigat

It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way

honestly, i kind of feel like i'm just preparing for when the corpo-gov ai consumes all of the world's compute manufacturing and resources and regular

“Humans of tomorrow will be AI orchestrators” is like saying, in the 90s, “Workers of tomorrow will be computer operators.” That would have seemed cra

the danger isn’t that AI will deceive us in some dramatic, sci-fi way. The danger is that AI will make deception so cheap and so ubiquitous that we mi

It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are