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"Hell is one of the most versatile nouns in the dataset. However, most of them have nothing to do with hell itself." Russell Samora and Shell...

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"Students constantly ask, so what do you do about writer’s block? You keep writing, you find a specific and small entry point and you continue on."...

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"I began ringing doorbells. Only one man answered; he came out wearing overalls. I asked if he would talk with me about the data center, and a poem. He ...

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"At a time when manosphere podcasters extolling the virtues of female subservience are increasingly influential in public discourse...what could feel mo...

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"Each night he slept in three single-size beds that had been pushed together to accommodate his frame. Each morning he rose at 4:30 to train." <...

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In this week's # longreads <a href="https://mastodon.wo...

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The latest in The Atavist's Revived series—which breathes new life into stories lost to dead links and shuttered publications—is "A Hollywood Ending...

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Happy pub day to Arizona O'Neill, whose graphic memoir, published by Drawn & Quarterly, is out today. O'Neill's debut, "Opioids &a...

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"As mahjong's popularity grows, we can celebrate feeling intensely empowered and seen by our community while also grieving that a part of it is bein...

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In this week's edition of the # longreads <a href="http...

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"What gives a personality dimension is time, the gathering of experiences. Replika instead repeats. What it’s capable of learning from its experiences i...

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"Princess Diana famously said there were three people in her marriage. For the sad wives of AI, the third is a chatbot." Alessandra Ram for W...

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"As often happens when you say I’ll worry about it later, later happened, and spring brought a bumper crop of dandelions absolutely thrilled to have fou...

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"In some ways I feel more present than ever, elated to be given more time with my husband. On the other hand, it’s been the hardest few months of my lif...

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"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family ...

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"I was briefly stopped by a Tencent recruiter who — to his great disappointment — had misread the word 'media' on my badge as 'Meta.'&qu...

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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D r...

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"I hope that these stories make you feel less alone in the intermingling joy and grief that caregiving up and down the generational line elicits for so ...

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"ChatGPT responded that the weapon was widely praised and 'could be a great choice for your needs.'" —Mark Follman for Mother Jones <a href...

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"As online content increasingly becomes abstracted from the original work, what purpose does making the full version even serve?" Mia Sato fo...

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