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View More NewsNote: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most famous Greek poet to make his theme the perilous homecoming of the Trojan War hero Odysseus, wroteAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians, Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.(The translation is from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s 1975 compilation, C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems.) Christopher…
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A review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women by Steve Stewart-Williams; 362 pages; Forum, London (June 2026) “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!”—Gloria Steinem, 2019 In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.Summers offered this as…
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from the fire-the-people-who-drafted-this-bill dept There’s been a bunch of news this week regarding Minnesota’s new law that purports to prohibit “nudification” technology, and the…
Aave, the largest decentralized lending protocol, is considering a proposal to abandon six of the blockchains it had expanded onto, in a cleanup affecting…
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In brief FTC, California and Utah sued Hims & Hers over alleged privacy, billing and subscription violations. Regulators say the company shared sensitive health…
In brief The OpenAI Foundation committed an initial $250 million to grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at supporting the economic impact of AI…
from the holy-fuck dept There are many (negative) things this Trump administration is known for. It’s a long list and I would encourage everyone…
On Tuesday, Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed over 270 bills into law. With public scrutiny focused on bills related to crime and immigration,…
A major experiment led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that tokenization could help fix some of the biggest pain points in…
An attacker minted more than 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum after a suspected compromise of a StakeDAO-linked deployer key, though thin liquidity limited the…
In brief Researchers from Huawei and three partner institutions released Claw-Anything, a benchmark that evaluates AI agents on personal-assistant tasks. GPT-5.5, OpenAI’s flagship model,…
The minimum wage is on the rise in the U.S. Thirty states, the District of Columbia, and at least 68 localities have set hourly…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Ravi Tanuku on how the GENIUS Act repriced bitcoin’s monetary premiumJesper Johansen on looped…