Daily Beast: "Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat." Love the guy who just typed "What's the deal with the tariffs?" over and over and over.
Pico Iyer has striven all his live to both live a successful public life and cultivate inner stillness, leading to oscillation between busyness and withdrawal.
Scott Siskind on lapis lazuli and the color ultramarine, which was so expensive in medieval Europe that it was almost exclusively used for one purpose.
And more Siskind, a takedown of the phrase, "the purpose of a system is what it does," which has become the launching pad for all maner of conspiratorial takes.
Richard Hanania: "The two most disastrous decisions taken by world leaders over the last few years are Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s tariffs. Toxic masculinity works as a framework for understanding fantasies of both conquest and factory jobs. Feminists may have been on to something."
Gaulish curse tablet from a Roman-period necropolis.
B.D. McClay on genre fiction: "I like genre fiction for the same reason I like black-and-white film, stylized dialogue, animation, the paintings of Marc Chagall or ballet: things feel more real if they’re obviously a little fake."
The story of "Ashley's Sack," a sadly wonderful memento of slavery. (NY Times, Smithsonian, wikipedia)
Obama's complete remarks at Hamilton College on democracy and rule of law are on Medium. News story; summary on Twitter/X.
Sea turtle tears and animals that may or may not sense earth's magnetic field.
Considering jealousy, taking off from an assertion that some of today's college students don't understand what it is.
Interesting use of an LLM: have it read thousands of reports from physicians who diagnosed the patient as autistic and identify the key variables being used in the diagnosis.
More evidence of contact between the Indus Valley civilization and the Middle East.
DNA studies show that 43 medieval manuscripts at Clairvaux Abbey were bound in sealskin.
Most economists are committed free-traders, and we all know what they think. So here are two pieces from economists who do worry about US trade deficits and think tarriffs are sometimes useful but are outraged by Trump's actions: Matthew Klein, "How to Think about the Tarriffs", and "The End of Exorbitant Privilege as We Know It" by Nina Quinn Eichacker.
And here is Alex Tabarrok with "Why Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs." (Because almost by definition they move production to less efficient producers.)
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Considering jealousy, taking off from an assertion that some of today's college students don't understand what it is.
Article title: "Redeeming Jealousy".
When the opposite concept of compersion is as widely known and understood as jealousy has historically been, THEN you can talk to be about redeeming jealousy.
And even then, you're going to have to find someone other than Marilyn Simon, who comes off as hysterically closed-minded and condescending in the piece. Rather than trying to understand the differing point of view of others, she instead outright dehumanizes them in self-admitted fear and revulsion:
Sexual jealousy in Othello, continues the nineteenth-century theater critic, “‘resembles a thunderstorm, which awes by its magnificence of terror; in fact it is grand beyond loveliness.’” It strikes me as a great loss that students today do not share in the great sublimity of their own humanity. But that they cannot even imagine what it is makes my blood run cold, because it seems that theirs does, and they are commended for it.
Daily Beast: "Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat." Love the guy who just typed "What's the deal with the tariffs?" over and over and over.
One would think that a "technology genius" such as Musk would know that you can prevent people spamming the same message over and over in chat, or even just kick someone from chat entirely, extremely easily using the in-built options of most streaming programs.
Honestly, I'm more surprised that he isn't employing the classic "management" option of delegating a task to someone who is actually competent. I struggle to imagine he couldn't just force one of his interns to moderate his chat for him.
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