Sometimes prior art can serve as helpful comparisons for new work.

Bill Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins opens up about his Christian faith in a recent podcast episode. Ian M. Giatti covers the subject for The Christian Post. “If you talk about God, you know, you might as well throw your career down the hole,” he said. “And I made the decision that I was going to talk about God honestly, at least God in my life or believing in Jesus as my Lord and Savior. And if it was going to hurt me, I didn’t care. Because if you don’t really understand me … if I can’t be willing to...

The Velvet Underground and Sunday School references in the same track.

I have seen a few references to a song called “Choosin’ Texas” by an artist named Ella Langley beating out Mariah Carey for the longest-running No. 1 song of...

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Debate surrounding AI has revealed contrasting opinions, emphasizing the need for regulation and caution against treating industry leaders as unquestionable authorities.

This is gonna be a short one, but I made a simple Obsidian theme. It's called Bircharoo and it's the theme I've wanted for myself. There are over 700 themes out there already, and surely one of them would get me close to what I wanted. But

I just read Dario Amodei’s convincing “We Must Pace the Frontier.” Much has to go right in his plans to create measurable effect, and with our current administration against policing AI companies for fear of giving China an advantage, I’m less than optimistic. Good thing I read this piece by Cal Newport to dampen the effect of the rhetoric and balance things out.

Charles Homans takes a different perspective on the changes brought about by 9/11. In fact, he argues that much of the changes we attribute to the attacks we actually brought about by technology. These artifacts span the pre- and post-9/11 years, and the lost innocence they represent has nothing to do with the attacks. Their interest comes from their evocation of a period when people hung out with friends in person and sweated alongside strangers at clubs and music festivals; teenagers goofed un-self-consciously for cameras rather than posing for them like jaded celebrities; and popular culture could be loud and dumb and not picked apart in the digital panopticon for its social politics.

FFVII Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has revealed to IGN his “only choice” was to ship the new game on a single disc that forces you to download the rest of the game, because the team “didn’t want to make any compromises” in fidelity. But the original game shipped on three discs. FF8 shipped on four! So did FF9. [Image: Here, I whipped out a copy to show you. Forgot about the awesome booklet art! https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/DJI_20260910175156_0768_D.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

Cal Newport believes much of the fearmongering that is done by tech executives in the A.I. space is due to their backgrounds in Rationalism and related philosophies. This reality, that Rationalism deeply influenced many of today’s major A.I. companies, helps us calibrate the unnerving language we’ve been hearing from their leaders. When Mr. Altman declares their pending models will be “sobering” for humanity or Mr. Amodei frets that this technology “will test who we are as a species,” it doesn’t necessarily mean that they discovered frightening new evidence that something catastrophic is imminent.

Activities commonly viewed as beneficial for mental health, such as self-focus and meditation, may produce negative side effects rather than promote well-being.

My absolute favorite record for the transition from late summer to early fall is Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. The affinity has to do with more than just the fact that there is an...

Finished reading: Galahad and the Grail Merlin’s Isle by Malcolm Guite 📚. One of my favorite parts was the final section about the history of the Arthurian legend and the inspiration for the book. As a student at Cambridge I rediscovered these stories in their original sources and became aware of how so many modern versions of them seemed to marginalise or even erase the deep Christian impulse that had formed their original telling, and as a poet I longed to restore that lost element in the hope that a new telling might baptise the imagination of the growing generation brought up in a secular world, trapped in “the immanent frame” and deprived of their inheritance in the gospel.

Bill Gates is coming out of a period of semi-seclusion to raise the alarm bells about generative A.I. Karen Weise covers the story for The NYT. One of the main concerns that Gates has is the potential for massive job losses. He proposed a new tax on A.I. use, known as a “token tax,” to...

When someone complained about the surface noise that came with listening to music on vinyl, the late BBC disc jockey John Peel (a notable lover of the...