We had a provincial election here in Quebec earlier this week, coverage of which served as a reminder that the Quebec government officially does not recognize the province’s border with Labrador—a border determined by a… More

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Aaron Horwath implements AI for a living, and in a good essay for Noema he asks why so many knowledge workers are losing faith in their careers: In coffee shops and in the low-lit corners of bars, professionals are sharing dreams of “disappearing” or “living on a farm somewhere” or “going off the grid.” These aren’t fantastical daydreams; they are visions of escape shared in a tone that betrays an underlying existential angst, a fundamental doubt about work and careerism inspired by a seemingly…

Did you know that just a few days ago (6 October 2026, a day that may live in infamy!) OpenAI published hundreds of mathematical manuscripts in one fell swoop, crediting these works to an internal frontier model it has not named and has not yet released? (See here, here, and here, for example.) On this note, check out the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM)’s Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents: https://ahmath.org/statements (hat tip: @pickover). Some of the…

Today’s recording is Deadly 60 – Mozambique. Before finding anything deadly, he collects some plankton in a pillowcase. Then he goes in search of a huge animal that eats Plankton – a Whale Shark. They accidentally discover a small arachnid called a Solifuge in their hut, the fastest invertebrate in the world. Back to the ocean, and he meets a Potato Grouper. And a Crown of Thorns starfish. Media Centre Description: Wildlife series. Deep in the waters of the Indian Ocean, Steve goes in search of…

This latest 12 from Mark Seven’s Parkwest is a 4-track collaboration between Seven and L.A.-based artist Jamma-Dee.* It opens with 2 takes on a tune titled “Dedication”, a self-confessed tribute to legendary New Jersey producers, twin brothers Ronnie and Rheji Burrell, and the art they created for Frank and Karen Mendez’s Nu Groove. Personally I can also hear a little Paul Simpson in the syncopated disco drums, something of Frankie in the faux flute, and a lot of Larry Heard in the almost…

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weather: ☀️ cool the earth! nuremberg for billionaires now critters: dragonflies disclaimer: gay content of thoughts may vary ANNE CARSON WON THE NOBEL FUCK YEAH the average DL american married gay is only closeted in 2026 because he won't stoop to doing his own laundry or buying his own groceries. the fact is he would simply die angry and confused in a ditch if he didn't have an unpaid culturally-sanctioned bangmommy to which he has exclusive labor access a wife doing those things for him one…

“Gulf of America” is now state policy in Alabama. Thanks to a law that took effect on October 1, state entities and employees in Alabama are now required to refer to the Gulf of Mexico… More

At the age of 44, I've finally developed a full appreciation for Guerlain. It took a while. For many years there, I wasn't convinced of the supposed quality behind their perfumes and was perhaps a bit blinded by the outrageous quality of 2000s vintage Creeds. We can't expect people to spend ungodly amounts of time macerating micro-batches, nor can we demand that they spend insane amounts of money

A look inside the per-language scores of the MTEB leaderboard, with Indic languages as the test case.

The dancer In Jim Ede’s house, Kettles Yard, Cambridge. Quote of the Day “And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.” Spike Milligan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Abdullah Ibrahim | Bra Timing From Phomolong Link Long Read of the Day Against historic normalization: Why AI is not the Manhattan project and why we must challenge ourselves to think the radically new. Very timely…

There are certain things many people like to pay lip service to but don’t actually believe. “I care about the environment,” they'll declare until they have to put even the most minimal effort into separating recycling versus garbage. “I believe in barely any screen time for my kids,” until they need just 10 minutes of quiet to drink some coffee and the kiddos won’t stop brawling with each other whilst the television sits ready to cue up a show. “I think mental health is important,” until…

# It's been a bit quiet here lately for a number of reasons. Firstly, I've been focusing on music in my spare time (hence the recent releases) what little there has been of it. Second, things have been pretty manic in one way or another which has resulted in the aforementioned little spare time. Third, I've been pretty low and flat — not really had the headspace for ideas in words, just rhythmic sounds. Yesterday was a case in point: I just felt tearful all day for no apparent reason. As is the…

The Planned Parenthood Book Sale is held in September every year, and we have attended the sale for many, many years. My son usually spends most of his time in the science fiction and fantasy section, although we both also head for graphic novels after we walk in the door on the first day. He also keeps an eye out for science fiction and fantasy books for me and my husband.In this post, I am featuring six of the books he bought this year.The Cartographers (2022) by Peng ShepherdThis book sounds…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours The poet Andy Stroman sent me these reminiscences of his childhood in Whitechapel in the nineteen-fifties Andy Stroman aged four on the doorstep in Milward St My brothers Paul, Howard and myself occupied one bedroom at 17 Milward St, Whitechapel, behind the London Hospital. We had three single beds and Paul was the furthest away from the door while Howard was in the middle. I was nearest to the door. On Saturday, we would have a lie-in while…

With humanity threatened by an ever-increasing array of technological, manmade and natural disasters, billionaire philanthropist Jeff Tracy has founded International Rescue. Operating from a secret base in the South Pacific, Tracy and his five sons take part in rescue missions around the globe using an impressive array of vehicles, the Thunderbirds. The organisation also finds itself the target of international criminals, so has a network of secret agents around the globe working to defend…

saw that local motion is bringing back the kona jacketso nostalgic!I'm so glad local motion wrote "kona jacket" because the person who posted this on social media didn't, and I just couldn't remember the name "kona jacket"!huge! apple from yamagata, crisp and sweethuge asian pear, not sure from where in Japanjust before sunrise...glad I caught this, a couple minutes later it was grey againI had

Pre-relay race domination. Giddy-up! Myke and I are back together behind the mic after being in front of the camera last week. We recap our trip to St. Jude in Memphis, I back two new Kickstarter projects, and the Spoke Roady v3 hits the virtual shelves. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Pen Chalet: Check out this week's special offer, and to get your code for 10% off.

NOTE: A few days ago I attended the "Encore" theatrical screening of AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019), which included a couple new "tag" scenes for the upcoming AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (2026).As I wrote at the end of my review of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY (2026), I'm not certain whether I'll be seeing DOOMSDAY, and the new scenes weren't the pull for my seeing ENDGAME again. Rather, I wanted to revisit what I consider a singularly brilliant conclusion to the Marvel movies which had gone before. I deeply…

It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist now on a one-year visiting position at OpenAI, put on the arXiv a preprint entitled A gauge-invariant measure for lattice chiral fermions. This was produced with heavy use of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model was essential to this result. I proposed a strategy to extend…

"These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized." - Red (Morgan Freeman), The Shawshank Redemption(Side note: I like emdashes. Too bad if they have a bad rap these days.)The DiagnosisSome time back, I wrote about "The Path" and that things can just happen in life or work that lead you to a place, even though you may not be able to see the destination.It's important to remember while the past is…

Factions with competing visions for the West are in competition. The failure to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, UK’s DIGIT (digital gilts), and Secretary of State Rubio’s speech in front of the Acropolis bring the divide into focus for Matt Dines and I.

This morning I was feeling rather well, while my daughters are both still fighting colds, so I decided to do the morning cat feeding. Which turned out to already be done, except for the cat soup! I never heard my older daughter go out to do the feeding. She doesn’t do the cat soup part, … Continue reading More transplants, and I have a date!

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Adam Wilson’s Fail Sons is one of the year’s funniest and heartfelt novels, the brotherly road trip story (accompanied by their cryonically-preserved (and thawing) father you didn’t know you…

romanceyourdemons:LOVE when a rapper ends a line with kind of a weird phrase and i’m like okay what’s the plan here, and then they reveal that they were playing 6d linguistics chess to set up the perfect rhyme for “rodya raskolnikov” or “the treaty of nanking” or something like that. and i lose my entire mind

Artifacts at the Texas Broadcast Museum in Kilgore, Texas. The post Old Gear appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

I have spent a lot of words on Le Giornate del Cinema Muto so maybe I need some new ones. Conveniently enough, day six of the festival proved a fruitful day for neologisms – right from the start. A couple of minutes past nine in the morning, in fact when I was merrily enjoying the … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 6 →

MAKING HAY This had to be a short-run red hot sellout, didn’t it? Richard E Grant taking his air of wicked unreliable comedity back after 20 years tothe West End, while actually thrilling couch potatoes in Traitors. And it’s Hay Fever, the comedy of appalling boho-showbiz manners which Noel Coward pretended he wrote im tnree days but actually – as the great Soden biography reveals – was crafted and notebooked like a Swiss watch, every drop dead line and narcissistic fantasy worked with…

Today one does not hear very much about the movie Popi (1969), but upon its release it received mostly positive reviews and it did moderately well at the box office. It was also nominated for various awards, from the Golden Globes to the WGA. It also happens to be significant in the history of Latinos in American film.Popi (1969) centres on Abraham Rodriguez (Alan Arkin), a Puerto Rican living in Brooklyn, New York. He is the father of two sons, who both refer to him as "Popi." He wants to…