Use This Hack to Get the Pixel's AI Dictation on Any Android Phone
Rambler, Google's AI-powered dictation feature, seems genuinely useful. At its core, Rambler is like your phone's existing dictation tool, only much...
Birth order doesn’t predict your personality but here’s what does
Michael J. Coren at the Washington Post:Many of us assign personality traits to the family pecking order: the bossy firstborn, the peacekeeping...
Five Garmin Data Screens That Helped Me Improve My 'Running Economy'
On most runs, I prefer to pay attention to pace and heart rate data from my Garmin, and ignore the rest (even though I love playing with the data...
Scott Aaronson on the Mathocalypse
Scott Aaronson at Shtetl-Optimized:No, I’m not aware of any direct practical implications of any of these results. I certainly don’t expect the O(n...
How to Try WhatsApp's New Scheduled Messages Feature Early
All messaging apps should let you schedule texts by default. Sometimes, you need to send a message to a friend or family member, but you don't want...
Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works
Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works Posted on Monday, Oct 12, 2026 12:45PMMonday, October 12, 2026 by S. Abbas Raza Enjoying the...
Dua Lipa & Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Growing Up In Albania
Dua Lipa & Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Growing Up In Albania Posted on Monday, Oct 12, 2026 12:43PMMonday, October 12, 2026 by Morgan...
She’s Been to Gaza. She Met With the Iranians. Now She Has a Warning.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro in the New York Times:Are we already in the middle of a new world war without realizing it? That’s the provocative question I...
Lea Ypi’s Genre-Blending Histories
Santiago Ramos at Commonweal:When the pandemic began, Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi decided to use her time in lockdown to try something new. Instead...
Napoleon and his Marshals
Jonathan Boff at Literary Review:The tale of the unknown Corsican soldier who rose from nothing to the throne of France, and conquered Europe from...
I Tried 'PhotoCraft,' the AI Clone of Photoshop, and It's Almost Exactly Like the Real Thing
Love it or hate it, AI is changing tech at a rapid pace. Case in point: AI is now being used to reverse-engineer big-name software packages. Once...
The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Why Are Kids Throwing Fruit in Toilets?
This week's deep dive into young people culture answers questions you may not have thought to ask, like, "Why are young people throwing fruit in...
Google Finally Made Another Fitbit With a Screen
The rumors are true: Google has announced a new device, the Fitbit Edge. It’s a band with a narrow screen, much like the old Charge 6, but updated...
Why the Brain Isn’t the Self
Melanie Challenger in Undark Magazine:For centuries, humans have sought a vital essence to explain what makes life different from the rest of...
Will We Ever Understand Dementia?
Robert Kolker in The New York Times:The story of the science of dementia began on an autumn day in 1891, when a 71-year-old man was admitted to the...
Paying Attention
by Rachel Robison-GreeneSometimes it’s brave to lose control. We feel powerful when we can easily define, divide, and sort. We know what to do when...
Taller Than She Expected: On the Violence of Unwanted Repair
by Tammy Lai-Ming HoIn Ted Chiang’s “Hell Is the Absence of God,” the term “restoration” appears multiple times in relation to the legs of one of...
Poem by Jim Culleny
“That I might arrive like Columbus, who came by wrong to the right unknown” —Rodney Jones, poetComing by Wrong To The Right UnknownIt doesn’t matter...
Sunday Poem
A Kind of BiographyAll night the language dog gnaws at the meaning bone. Soon the sea begins to question its shuffling from East to West, and the...
Cry to the Angels
Marigold Warner in lensculture:In search of a feeling of youth she encountered online, Avery Norman constructs an imaginary girlhood informed by a...
50 Years Later, a Hit Book on Women’s Sexuality Deserves Some Love
Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times:In the Battle of the Sexologists, Alfred Kinsey probably wins: He was played by an A-list movie star. Masters...
On Public Assholes
by Akim ReinhardtThere have always been assholes, and there will always be. It’s unavoidable. Putting up with assholes, and even being an asshole...
Anwar Shaikh (1945–2026)
Vivek Chibber in Jacobin:With the passing of Anwar Shaikh, the left intellectual community has lost one of its most dynamic and brilliant members....
Fifteen Years Later
Javier Moreno Zacarés in Sidecar:Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a...
Eurosclerosis or US Decline?
Dominik Leusder in Phenomenal World:“You’re losing.” This was the blunt message the head of the world’s largest bank delivered to European policy...
Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human
Brad DeLong over at his Substack:In my prime, I would read perhaps 150 serious books a year. I would skim over parts that did not resonate, but...
Lessons From Singapore: Pests, Pesticides and Beyond
by Eric Feigenbaum“You might have Dengue,” the nice Thai doctor who spoke excellent English with a twang from his days at University of Tennessee...
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