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Want to ‘Optimize’ Your Happiness? This Happiness Expert Says: Don’t.

Podcast Episode · The Daily · May 30 · 48m

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Everyone Has Too Many “Friends” Online

Read the essay on connection bloat by designer, artist & cyberethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot. These days, instead of following your rea

“Ultimately, we have, for the most part, accepted that these platforms are one of the main ways we communicate and relate to each other. But we cannot let their designs dictate the way we become intimate with the people we want to be close to.”

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Olive Kitteridge

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Being an adult meant watching many possible versions of yourself whittle into just one.

The Birth of My Daughter, the Death of My Marriage

Now that I was doing little besides keeping this tiny creature alive, it was impossible to ignore my desire to wander the streets with our b

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is fashion art?

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Is fashion art?

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the Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) David Frankel

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The Drama (2026) Kristoffer Borgli

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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

makes me think of Lucas: incredibly ambitious, non-technical, relentless, dedicated, stubborn, but then makes me think of Marty: somehow lacking a moral compass, or one that isn't always ethical (says different things to different people, lack of integrity, people pleaser but not upfront)

companies (both OpenAI and Anthropic), even when rooted in safety, have to abide by capitalist aims and "go faster," and thus sacrifice their values (obviously "have to" is facetious here)

“human enfeeblement” - the idea that we become so reliant on AI to do basic human tasks, and this causes a decrease in critical thinking, problem-solving, and general human resilience. especially of concern to younger generations, who might never develop these skills if reliant on AI

sycophancy = the tendency for models to want to please users

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Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin

Podcast Episode · The Daily · April 9 · 53m

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What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

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I see you mean by Lucy Lippard

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Jenny Ofill, Department of Speculation

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Valencia by Michelle Tea

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2025 reads

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Cleopatra & Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Like Love by Maggie Nelson

Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

I know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

Health & Safety by Emily Witt

Speedboat by Renata Adler

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Burn the Diaries by Moyra Davey

The Problem of Reading by Moyra Davey

Index Cards by Moyra Davey

Heroines by Kate Zambrano

Working Girl by Sophia Giovannitti

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

Diary of an Ending by Lina Scheynius

Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Good morning, midnight by Jean Rhys

I love Dick by Chris Kraus (reread)

Art Work by Sally Mann

Self Portrait by Celia Paul

Bread of Angels by Patti Smith

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum by Elaine Sciolino

Life in Progress by Hans Ulrich Obrist

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2025 Watches

Amsterdam (2022) David O'Russell

God’s Own Country (2007) Francis Lee

Cameraperson (2016) Kristen Johnson

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick

Emilia Perez (2024) Jacques Audiard

Maria (2024) Pablo Larraín

The Last Showgirl (2024) Gia Coppola

The Room Next Door (2024) Pedro Almodóvar

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese

Universal Language (2025) Matthew Rankin

Christian Marclay, The Clock

The Apprentice (2024) Ali Abbasi

Bird (2024) Andrea Arnold

I Am Noise (2023) Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle and Karen O’Connor

Fargo (1996) Joel Cohen

Invention (2025) Callie Hernandez

The Architect and the Painter (2011) Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey

Bonjour Tristesse (2025) Durga Chew-Bose

Happiness (1998) Todd Solondz

Play it as it Lays (1972) Frank Perry

Death Becomes Her (1992) Robert Zemeckis

I’m Not Everything I want To Be (2025) Klára Tasovská

Morvern Callar (2002) Lynne Ramsay

Prozac Nation (2001) Erik Skjoldbjærg

The Reader (2008) Stephen Daldry

Jane Austen Wrecked my Life (2025) Laura Piani

One Battle After Another (2025) Paul Thomas Anderson

The History of Sound (2025) Oliver Hermanus

Phantom Thread (2022) Paul Thomas Anderson

I love Dick TV Show

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn

Peter Hujar’s Day (2025) Ira Sachs

Hamnet (2025) Chloe Zao

Stop Making Sense (1984) Jacques Demy

Sentimental Value (2025) Joachim Trier

Splendor in the Grass (1961) Elia Kazan

Nouvelle Vague (2025) Richard Linklater

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The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star

As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her

how legacy is created posthoumously, who benefits, the idea of the artist as savior / artist as individual genius dismantled !!!!!!