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Published: April 29, 2026 01:36

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Published: April 28, 2026 11:51

I was ready to be all mad about Joni Mitchell’s omission until I remembered she is Canadian. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 28, 2026 11:49

I’m kind of not surprised. We tend to think of scientific advances as sudden, but there are always a bunch of people unwilling to hop on board. Remember Einstein never won a Nobel Prize for either special or general relativity. The LLMs are just reflecting…

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Published: April 27, 2026 11:22

Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/04/27/352-bing-brunton-on-connecting-the-connectome-to-the-body/

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Published: April 26, 2026 22:31

Please stay healthy, Jo. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 25, 2026 12:24

How can you find out when a potential philanthropic donor might be disreputable, and what level of disreputability should convince you not to accept a donation? https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/486664/epstein-philanthropy-toxic-donors

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Published: April 23, 2026 18:21

We have created a world with previously unimagined material abundance, and yet we have organized society such that many people struggle with loneliness and alienation. Now we're offering tools that enhance delusion and paranoia. …

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Published: April 22, 2026 12:23

Important study if you’re interested in a data-based understanding of how social media are changing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 22, 2026 01:51

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Published: April 21, 2026 13:45

To be fair, academics are mostly obsessed with flagellating their colleagues, not their actual selves. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 20, 2026 17:53

Not even one tech company names itself after Samwise Gamgee or Goldberry.

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Published: April 20, 2026 16:53

Hello Chicagoland! I'm visiting Northwestern this week to give three lectures: physics colloquia on the arrow of time (Weds) and emergent spacetime (Thurs), public lecture on quantum mechanics (Fri). physics.northwestern.edu/events/…

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Published: April 20, 2026 12:52

This generation of snowflakes is going to have to retreat to their safe spaces when they hear about the Banach-Tarski paradox. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:48

Mindscape 351 | Peter Singer @petersinger.info on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures. #MindscapePodcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/04/20/351-peter-singer-on-maximizing-good-for-all-sentient-creatures/

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Published: April 19, 2026 15:09

Cartoonish evil will always be with us. But we must change things so that people like this are typing whiny manifestos to each other, not running the world. [contains quote post or other embedded content]