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The use of psychedelics in medicine is booming. Will it heal trauma, or create even more? Psychedelic medicine is booming. Will it heal trauma, or create even more?

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Becca Rothfeld · Whatevership: Tony Tulathimutte’s Anti-autofiction Tulathimutte recognises that the internet has all the elements of great fiction: Talmudic feats of interpretation,...

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The Business of Betting on Catastrophe World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-business... #Economics #Finance #PublicHealth via @mitpress.bsky.social

This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.

Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Parinda YouTube video by Jal The Band - Topic

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How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death Behind every great console is a great legal fight.

How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-nintendo... #Gaming #Law #OpenAccess #VideoGames via @mitpress.bsky.social

A peek inside Robert Caro’s home library, hidden shelves and all The historian shows off the most precious volumes in his collection — including a library book that has been overdue for at least 50 years.

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Jaideep Ahlawat shares some amazing stuff about his craft..

Pico Iyer Made His Name Traveling. Now He Explores Inner Landscapes. His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.

Pico Iyer Made His Name Traveling. Now He Explores Inner Landscapes. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu Its finances are a black box and its operations shrouded in secrecy, but PDD’s extraordinary growth has made it a darling of Wall Street

The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu - on.ft.com/4c0bPPY via @FT

The Airline Rewards Game Is Getting Tougher to Win Once-simple programs have become convoluted shadow currencies for carriers like Delta, American and United, leaving loyal flyers working harder to land deals.

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H&M’s Comeback Plan: Try to Be Cooler The fashion brand is dealing with an identity crisis and stagnating sales. Can associating with musicians like Charli XCX help?

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How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.

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Wall Street Rally Wipes Away a Year of Fed-Induced Losses Investors have just turned back the clock on the Fed’s tightening campaign and cast aside the Fed fears that ruled them for 15 months.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-17/wall-street-rally-wipes-away-a-year-of-fed-induced-losses

How a Novel About Video Games Became a Surprise Best Seller Gabrielle Zevin didn’t expect a wide audience for “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” her novel about game developers. It became a blockbuster with staying power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/books/gabrielle-zevin-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow.html

Buffett’s intriguing bet on Japan - https://on.ft.com/3MFY7Gh via @FT

How some people get away with doing nothing at work All hail the jobless employed.

How some people get away with doing nothing at work
https://www.vox.com/money/23733244/bullshit-jobs-work-employment-lazy-jobless-employed-nothing-to-do

Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now.

Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/22/1073471/metas-new-ai-models-can-recognize-and-produce-speech-for-more-than-1000-languages/

A Brief History of Long Movies At the Cannes Film Festival this weekend, "Killers of the Flower Moon" will become the latest movie to ask just how much time we ought to give it

A Brief History of Long Movies
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-long-movies-180982213/

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.”

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference-20230524/

Investors are so horny for AI that they’ve invested $175mn in OpenAI’s VC fund - https://on.ft.com/3MWV4uu via @FT

The fall of Vice: private equity’s ill-fated bet on media’s future - https://on.ft.com/3WEMJ1W via @FT

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