Miguel Antonio
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I judge myself unfit for human contact.
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Friend: Aren't you glad that you're not an existentialist?
Me: Aren't you glad you managed to pronounce that word?
Me: Aren't you glad you managed to pronounce that word?
Faced with a crisis of production and an undying obsession with controlling our appetites, society is embracing increasingly out-there alternatives to food.
What does the food of the future look like?
Faced with a crisis of production and an undying obsession with controlling our appetites, society is embracing increasingly out-there alternatives to food
www.dazeddigital.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Faced with a crisis of production and an undying obsession with controlling our appetites, society is embracing increasingly out-there alternatives to food.
Untranslatability is also one of George Steiner’s great themes—and one of his central concerns in his commentary on Kafka.
The Kafka Challenge
The Kafkaesque lends itself to translation.
hedgehogreview.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Untranslatability is also one of George Steiner’s great themes—and one of his central concerns in his commentary on Kafka.
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.
Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.
www.wired.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.
More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.
The Enduring Value of Student Newspapers - JSTOR Daily
More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.
daily.jstor.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.
The end goal is platform authoritarianism.
E Pluribus Uh Oh | Leo Kim
“Pro-democracy” initiatives coming out of Silicon Valley are a sleight of hand. Platform authoritarianism is the end goal.
thebaffler.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The end goal is platform authoritarianism.
Reading apartment ads is like trying to understand a list of ingredients on the back of a can written in a language you don’t understand.
Speaking Apartment by Jane Stern
September 30, 2025 – "Reading apartment ads is like trying to understand a list of ingredients on the back of a can written in a language you don’t understand, or maybe like trying to find a mate on a...
www.theparisreview.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reading apartment ads is like trying to understand a list of ingredients on the back of a can written in a language you don’t understand.
Maligayang pasko sa inyo at sa inyong pamilya! Nawa’y magsilbi tayong liwanag sa bawat isa at maging gabay sa pagtahak natin sa buhay!
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Maligayang pasko sa inyo at sa inyong pamilya! Nawa’y magsilbi tayong liwanag sa bawat isa at maging gabay sa pagtahak natin sa buhay!
A.I. is coming for knowledge work, and yet college seems to be getting easier. Does something need to change?
Should College Get Harder?
A.I. is coming for knowledge work, and yet college seems to be getting easier. Does something need to change?
www.newyorker.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A.I. is coming for knowledge work, and yet college seems to be getting easier. Does something need to change?
Laying someone to rest is the final act of care that leaves a lingering impression, not only on the dead, but on you.
What My Grandmother’s Death Folder Taught Me About Love and Duty
My grandmother showed me her death folder when I was eight years old. She was a practical woman, born on a farm in upstate South Carolina, married to a Gullah man from Johns Island when she was ba…
lithub.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Laying someone to rest is the final act of care that leaves a lingering impression, not only on the dead, but on you.
If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.
What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves
One fantasy that comes up again and again: I wish cats ruled the world. When we imagine this alternate reality, all our favorite projections blur together in a vague impression of what might be—a …
lithub.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.
Every rule, every value, was created by the consensus of adults, and adults will discard those rules and values when it suits them.
What Are We Getting Out of Mythology?
I must have been in grade school when Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire presented me with a death scene so visceral I carried it with me to adulthood. King Minos, conqueror of Athens and stepfather o…
lithub.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Every rule, every value, was created by the consensus of adults, and adults will discard those rules and values when it suits them.
Needless to say, English is a challenging language, especially when it comes to spelling—in James Joyce’s words, it is “the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.”
How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography
At the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…
lithub.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Needless to say, English is a challenging language, especially when it comes to spelling—in James Joyce’s words, it is “the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.”
Instead, at least for now, it’s the Trump administration’s policies that seem to be costing people the most economic opportunity.
AI Isn't Killing Jobs, Trump Is
Innovation meets stagnation.
gizmodo.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Instead, at least for now, it’s the Trump administration’s policies that seem to be costing people the most economic opportunity.
