Research published last month found narcissistic leaders – those with a tendency to be self-centred and entitled – were more likely than others to resist remote work. Why? The study concluded “it interferes with their motivations for power and...
If you tried to buy Novo Nordisk today, you couldn’t. That’s not a comment on the price, though the market cap has recently sat somewhere north of half a trillion dollars. It’s a comment on the legal architecture. The...
Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks.
When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated poverty, I kept food in my classroom because I knew...
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production...
Seattle might not see many truly scorching days each year, but when they happen, they tend to happen all at once. One day the weather is in the 60s and raining; the next it feels like the Sound itself...
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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable...
Summer Savory not your vibe? Check out N/A Summer Sweet instead.
In June, when the temperatures creep above 70, I leave the Manhattans behind, and start sniffing out margaritas, mai tais, anything with orgeat that helps me pretend I’m on...
Summer Sweet not your vibe? Check out Boozy Summer Savory instead.
I’ve never drunk alcohol. I heard a Minor Threat song when I was 14 and swore off booze right then and there. But few things are more pathetic than...
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could...
On 30 June 2025 the WHO Commission on Social Connection reported that about one in six people worldwide are affected by loneliness, and that it is linked to more than 871,000 deaths every year. That works out to roughly...
