BlogFlockAlex Ryvchin | Tablet | 15th September 2017 | U
From the late 1950s onwards, a small…
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell | Contingent | 9th September 2025 | U
Sara Catterall. Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Belt Publishing, 2025. 304 pp. Paperback $26.00.
A biography of Amelia Bloomer is long overdue. While her friends Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are still revered as the mothers…
Danny Rensch | Quillette | 16th September 2025 | U
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Paul Laity | London Review Of Books | 17th September 2025 | B
It was immediately clear when Martha, my 13-year-old daughter, died of septic shock that serious errors had been made. She died at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where a last-ditch attempt to save her proved futile,…
Julian Brave NoiseCat | Paris Review | 17th September 2025 | U
Ed Archie NoiseCat, Coyote Survives the Night. Courtesy of Julian Brave NoiseCat.
The night watchman who found my newborn father in the dumpster said his cries for life sounded like a cat. But that was pure, if…
Engadget: Snap’s AR glasses are getting a better browser and support for Spotlight video. “Snap is upgrading the software that powers its augmented reality glasses as it gets ready for the first non-developer version of its ‘Specs’ next year. The latest update to Snap OS includes an improved web…
"But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."
Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates
"We keep being told that the robots are going to take over. I didn’t want to get on the wrong side of the one I’d let into my house." —Arwa Mahdawi for The Guardian
404 Media: AI-Powered Animal Crossing Villagers Begin Organizing Against Tom Nook. “A software engineer in Austin has hooked up Animal Crossing to an AI and breathed new and disturbing life into its villagers. Using a Large Language Model (LLM) trained on Animal Crossing scripts and an RSS reader, the…
Cornell University: Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise. “In 1958, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which created National Resource Centers (NRCs) at universities to train experts in regions critical to U.S. interests. Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) earned NRC status that year, with the…
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