A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical Navier-Stokes problem and sounds the alarm. A handful of tech moguls are establishing a private monopoly over ...

Short writing about books worth reading, by Daniël van der Winden

A Peruvian farmer sued German energy company RWE claiming damages for flood risk to his home in the Andes.

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I started reading « The future is for everyone; the path to a positive AI future », an essay by Mark Zuckerberg, the intellectual equal of Elon Musk,  « We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. » Instant annoyance. Who were these fortunate we? The people working on AI? The entire world population? Only Americans, […]

I have learned what artistic freedom is. It happened in a secret museum somewhere in Sweden. I had to wade through tall grass toward a windowless barn, painted in faluröd, the reddish-brown color that...

So there I am, in a museum in a town that in 150 years has evolved from a community of farmers to an artists’ colony, then to a posh village, and is by now a flashy village of loudmouths with too much...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

“The oppressive yet strangely compelling feeling of never really having been young may itself be a form of longevity, one that resembles the condition of many young people today.” A striking number of...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

by Hazar Deniz Eker

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; it’s up to you, dear reader, to guess which is which), and others. UPDATES: Day 2 | 12 Jun 14:42 […]

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Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models

The most sublime of the violins made by Antonio Stradivarius (Cremona, c. 1644-1737) have names like roses: there is the « Countess Polignac » and the « Davidov », the « Lady Tennant » and the « Molit...

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« This summer my inner warrior was kissed back alive by an unlikely figure: the Pope. »

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Any fool can see that the head of state is naked, that he is a complete phony — except for himself. Such appears to be the premise of The Emperor’s Clothes, a fairy tale I see referred to more and mor...

I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.