Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20:14 (ESV) The world is ending. In the periphery enlightened Fukuyama acolytes readily worship the superstition that we've arrived at the fabled end of history—that immortal Zeitgeist, an eternal stasis.…

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By Published Apr 19, 2025 Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard For far too long, I've been navigating the ever-growing mountain of research notes and documents in a somewhat disorganized and inefficient way. I did hear about AI note-taking tools, but for one reason or another, I hesitated. That…

Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company's top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. Why it matters: Managing those AI identities will require companies to reassess their cybersecurity strategies or risk exposing…

Jason Howell/ZDNet The Google Pixel 9a might be the best-value phone of 2025, especially now that it brings flagship-level AI tools, a bright 120Hz display, and a massive battery into a more affordable price tier. But, just like any Pixel phone, the best features often aren't enabled by default.…

“Email has largely stayed the same,” wrote Gmail product manager Aakash Shaney in 2019, while the web rapidly evolved around it. No more. Google’s AMP for email meant “your emails can stay up to date” and “you can easily take action directly from the message itself.” Four years earlier, the search…

Art Deco City From Time and Jerry Today, I bring you an interview with Ryan Allen. Ryan Allen is a professor of international education at Soka University of America in Southern California and the author of the newsletter "College Towns," which explores the intersection of higher education and…

I went to East London last week to visit my wife's alma mater, Queen Mary University. As I stopped to grab a cup of coffee, I received a message saying that Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, had passed. To be honest, with a new family member keeping me busy at home, and a new course on MIPS…

A little while back I wrote something wildly unpopular and an acquaintance noted that I didn’t seem to mind. “Why would I?” I asked, genuinely interested. We drilled down to what seemed to me a rather important truth, one that I suspect many, if not most, writers share. Which is that it bothers me…

Fools and Philosophers: On Michael Schur’s “How to Be Perfect” Steven A. Miller tries to untangle an impossible knot of humor and philosophic thought in reviewing Michael Schur’s funny and lucid book of ethics. June 26, 2022 Philosophy & Religion How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral…

Reflections of a Moral Realist: On Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress” Kieran Setiya reviews Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.” October 24, 2023 Philosophy & Religion Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel.…

Unikernels are single-purpose appliances where an application is linked with everything that it needs, including kernel drivers, into a single binary which can be run in the cloud. Our 2013 paper ("Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud") won one of the Influential Paper Awards at the…

Moscow, the West, and Coexistence Without Illusion Alexander Gabuev May/June 2025 Published on April 17, 2025 Illustration by Gregori Saavedra ALEXANDER GABUEV is Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Print Subscribe to unlock this…

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…

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…