Journalist Chris Hedges says President Trump’s use of the shocking assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to attack civil society is the latest iteration of a broader crackdown on free speech.

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

“It was used to write official memos to persons of importance, and it’s also a round script, a wonderful black script, written in black but with remarkable taste.”

From The Idiot, a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by David McDuff (1868)

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“Curiosity is not a thirst that can be slaked: it is a permanent condition. Every answer points to more and sometimes more profound questions.”

From The Consolations of Physics, a book by Tim Radford (2018)

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“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”

From Before Sunset, a film by Richard Linklater (2004)

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We are currently preparing a publication that will focus on the artwork, "Through the Barrier - 1956 Treason Trial Frieze and Ladder," by Georgia Papageorge. This publication will delve into the #conservation of the photo frieze and ladder.

What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy?

One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night.

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