Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel Oxford University Press, 71 pp., $24.95 Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”…

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether it should step in to block or delay the implementation of a law that would ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. If not blocked, the law will force TikTok to cease operations in the U.S. on January 19, unless its Chinese corporate owner…

We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian…

I joined 37signals five and a half years ago. I don’t think this is the right company for most people or that most people are a good fit for it. At the same time, I know this can be a dream job when there’s alignment on both sides. Here’s the whole deal from my very personal point of view. Let me…

At the end of 2022, Celine Song was weeks away from debuting her first feature at the Sundance Film Festival. By the end of 2023, she was one of the most talked about directors of the year. Past Lives was received with rapturous praise at its premiere on its way to becoming an indie breakout hit. At…

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David Dimbleby: I thought the free market was with us forever - then Trump came along 6 hours ago David DimblebyPresenter, Invisible Hands, BBC Radio 4 Getty Images I remember 1974 well. With inflation on the rise, the government had been locked in battle with trade unions over worker pay. The…

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters cascade down the screen. Just like in the movies. I was scanning the passing code for recognizable…

Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently shut down the 2G network. “I thought of buying a new phone, but I don’t have money,” the 73-year-old, who sells iced tea at a bus stop in Hanoi, told Rest of World in late January.…

Rumors suggest a revised May 2025 launch for the EOS R6 Mark IIIIt could inherit features from the pricier EOS R5 Mark IIAs a potential EOS R6 Mark II update, it rivals the Nikon Z6 III and Sony A7 IV Canon's twin launch of the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II stole 2024's headlines, with the latter camera…

David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens March 21, 2025 Credit...Illustration by Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times Listen to this article · 30:45 min Learn more Mr. Brooks, Mr. Douthat, Mr. French and Mr. Stephens are Opinion columnists. ​Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor,…

While some people were moved by the product's story, others dismissed it as more AI slop (Image credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images) By published 18 March 2025 Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is developing a new large language model with creative writing skills that have…

I’ve recently added snapshot testing support to Zine, my static site generator, and I’ll share here how to get a similar setup going for your projects. Snapshot testing is based on two principles: The assertion part of your tests is expressed as a comparison against a known good value.You use your…

In 2002, Ahmed Rabbani was working as a taxi driver in Karachi when he was arrested by the Pakistani authorities. They beat him with wire and sticks and accused him of being “a wanted terrorist called Hassan Ghul.” The Pakistani government then sold Rabbani to the CIA for a $5,000 bounty. Rabbani…

Three days ago, Drew DeVault - founder and CEO of SourceHut - published a blogpost called, "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face", where he complained that LLM companies were crawling data without respecting robosts.txt and causing severe outages to SourceHut. I went,…

The Raspberry Pi 5 is several times faster than previous models of the compact and cheap computer. For less than a couple hundred bucks, you can have a computer that can do many tasks that previously required a regular PC, that consumes very little power, and for which the web is overflowing with…

Canon USA has released a teaser showing off the Canon PowerShot V1 and the Canon EOS R50 V. Both cameras will be announced globally on March 26, 2025. Hey, we got an announcement date correct! Canon USA Twitter Canon EOS R50 V Canon EOS R50 V We don’t have definitive specifications as of yet, but…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Home » Premium, ‘world changing’ mirrorless camera falls in price Premium, ‘world changing’ mirrorless camera falls in price Geoff Harris 19 March 2025 / 12:10 GMT19 March 2025 / 12:10 GMT Premium…

The Literary Foundations of Civilisation Nestled in a café-bar-museum-event space in Fort Mason — San Francisco’s water-front, weathered military campus with sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge —is a floor to ceiling library housing the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilisation. A…

(Image credit: Future) The incredible Canon EOS R5 Mark II has just fallen to a new record-low price of $3999 (was $4299) at Adorama, marking the first significant deal I've seen on this high-end body. As an overview, the Mark II features a stellar full-frame 45MP sensor capable of 8K video,…

17 Mar, 2025 Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing. The sketchiness starts with major tech companies who are incentivized to build comprehensive profiles of…

Listen to this post: Good morning, This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup, which means we don’t have real data about the business. At the same time, OpenAI is clearly one of the defining companies of this era, and…

"Vibe Coding" vs Reality Published Mar 19, 2025 - 11 min read - Text OnlyTable of contents There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words (archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." This belief — like many flawed takes…

Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University. Getting a good night’s sleep is important at…

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space Jan 31, 2025Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria.…

We recently rebuilt TigerBeetle’s docs site from scratch. We wanted to apply TigerStyle and first principles thinking, not only to our database but also to our docs. To give users the fastest possible experience, given how much time they spend reading, and to do this without the dependency of…

Let’s implement leader election using Amazon S3’s If-Match condition by building a distributed lock with it. In August 2024, Gunnar Morling published a blog post that shows how to do it with the If-None-Match condition. Back then, If-Match had not yet been released. This post shows another way to…

AI is quietly upending the business models of major content sites. Platforms like WebMD, G2, and Chegg - once fueled by SEO and ad revenue - are losing traffic as AI-powered search and chatbots deliver instant answers. Users no longer need to click through pages when AI summarizes everything in…

The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning. The office has been deemed “non-critical,” Thomas Shedd, director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, emailed staff at 1am. The agency’s…

Most programmers have some understanding of the basics of CPUs and sequential programming because they grow up writing code for the CPU, but many are less familiar with the inner workings of GPUs and what makes them so special. Over the past decade, GPUs have become incredibly important because of…

Balaji Srinivasan’s 2022 book, The Network State is a blueprint of sorts. It is the wild fever-dream of Silicon Valley’s libertarian investor-class. It imagines a near future in which online communities use the blockchain to opt out of government and form their own competing “network states.” It’s…

A painting by Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, wife of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and a fellow futurist Benedetta Cappa Marinett © Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Rome/ Alamy The word “futurism” was born in a car crash. At least, that is the story that poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti told back in 1909, when he…

In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace instead. I bought it, along with a couple of others, and perhaps three or four years…