You end up committing yourself to what you are left with Robert Wyatt
I don’t know what I want; I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Gerhard Richter
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face
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Hussein Abbass in Singularity Hub: An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s
advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test
and ha...
The Tennis Racket Theorem
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Experimenting in microgravity aboard the Mir space station in 1985, Soviet
cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov watched a spinning wingnut flip
spontaneously in ...
Gorky’s Reminiscences of Writers.
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Adam Thirlwell has a wonderful LRB review essay (25 June 2026; archived) of
a book I keep meaning to read, Gorky’s Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov
and An...
Listening to Noise
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As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to
two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and George Foy both
investigat...
Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries
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The show addresses a series of themes including: gravity as “the greatest
designer”, extraterrestrial architecture, deep space mysteries, future body
modif...
Almost never losing
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My whole life is about winning.
I don’t lose often.
I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
All of the women on *The Apprentice*
flirted w...