Why the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel prize in literature, is against the country’s national canon. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

🧵 Thread on beautiful data centers: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona SCC): Often called "the most beautiful data center in the world," this facility is housed inside the Torre Girona Chapel, a deconsecrated 19th-century church. When fully installed, it will have a peak performance of 13.9 Petaflops.

UK newspaper apologizes for fake De Blasio interview criticizing Mamdani

Uruguay passes law to legalize euthanasia

clicked this to check it was not, in fact, The Onion. It's not.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” “even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.

OpenAI’s ‘flatlining’ subs in Europe: The AI boom’s poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns fortune.com/2025/10/14/o...

Estão distribuídos os mandatos. O fim do bipartidarismo foi exagerado, mas há um infiel da balança. Agora é aproveitar, porque tão cedo não se volta a falar no poder local. Só se meter PJ e MP.

A bit like Soccer Saturday but with more Markov chains. on.ft.com/4hdMpl4

Exclusive: Leaked U.S. documents reveal expanded security cooperation between Israel and key Arab states despite public condemnation of the Gaza war. The collaboration, driven by concerns over Iran, includes military planning and training.

Nobel Institute probes leak of peace prize winner’s name on.ft.com/46Wq8TT

Top notch post from Brad Setser & Stephen Paduano on Milei and the Trump bailout. "... there are no atheists in foxholes. And there aren’t many libertarians in a financial crisis." on.ft.com/3Iq4QpH

Crypto hoarders turn to share buybacks in push to boost falling stock prices - on.ft.com/4mtEYXS

Dutch TV’s take on Disney trashing the First Amendment — by pulling Jimmy Kimmel to appease a thin-skinned autocrat — is something to behold. 🎬Arjen Lubach

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

Protesters chanted that President Donald Trump is the “Hitler of our time” while he dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on Tuesday, a rare journey outside the White House to a D.C. restaurant. https://wapo.st/3V6st9v

More than a dozen Russian drones entered Poland overnight, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot them down in what Western officials described on Wednesday as a dangerous escalation of the war in neighboring Ukraine.

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

The U.S. economy probably added half as many jobs in the 12 months ending in March as previously reported, according to the preliminary benchmark revision data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday. #NumbersDay www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

The world’s biggest oil and gas companies, including Chevron and BP, are cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments on.ft.com/48esUpI