Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? John Seabrook reports.

There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.” Rachel Syme reports.

The opening of my talk Of Time And The Web deals with our collective negativity bias. The general consensus is that the world has become worse.

Inventor of Robot Wars / Industrial Light and Magic - chief model maker/animatronic designer

Directed by Robert Gordon and filmed and edited by John Olivio, this video was produced in the lo-fi aughts of 2006 for Matador Records to support Cat Power's acclaimed album "The Greatest". The video also features 20th century art world legend William Eggleston.

Michael Halbert is a scratchboard illustrator that specializes in scratchboard illustration.

lead author of the "bibles" of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook

Wonderful trompe l'oeil tumbling block design quilt incorporating signatures from such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rembrandt Peale, and Abraham Lincoln ( one of eight American presidents represented ).

Matt Kirkland

Garden & Gun - For almost a century, one dance has captured the spirit of the coast and beyond. Follow along with three generations of the Free family as they pivot, belly roll, and boogie walk to keep the tradition alive

The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) shows videos of Rogers Stone before, during and after January 6th including documentary footage of him stating: "I said, f*ck the voting, let's get right to the violence."

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An influential M.I.T. professor and an outside-the-box scientific theorist, he gained fame with unorthodox views as a pioneer in digital physics.

Paul Graham Essay - How to do great work

Full Stack Developer and Entrepreneur. - see: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/realtime-user-store.html#problem

Illustrator

Grace Hopper - Computer Scientist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional tend to have spent their formative years surrounded by adults who were exceptional.

A man who’s been called “the chief shaman of the paranoid school of American fiction” can be expected to act a little nervous.

Reid Hoffman - Many of the most popular websites leveraged humanity’s less virtuous impulses.

John Shelton Reed (born 1942) is an American sociologist and essayist, author or editor of 23 books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.

Editor • Writer • Researcher • Teacher • Public Speaker | Fountain NC. ( sent the email about Dirty Dan ) | Won the 2021 NC Award for the Humanities. Owns R.A. Fountain ( https://rafountain.com )

An era of remarkable prosperity has ended. Brad DeLong felt confident that the story started in 1870. The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it—and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism and decades after the advent of manufacturing at scale.

Issue #199 - Do you have a safe space? How would you describe it?

Andrew Johnstone, owner of Annandale Plantation, later renamed Millbrook, was a prominent Georgetown rice planter who annually took his family to cooler climes to escape the heat and mosquitos of the Lowcountry from May to October. He sold Annandale in 1863 and retired to Flat Rock, North Carolina. The following story, reported in Georgetown Times, date unknown, by Louise Bailey brings to light the troubling times of the era even in an idyllic setting

One of the more dramatic and violent moments in the history of Flat Rock occurred during the Civil War. Beaumont, owned by Andrew Johnstone of Georgetown, SC, was one of the earliest grand homes in Flat Rock and during the final chaotic year of the war, a band of “bushwhackers” descended upon the estate on a warm June day in 1864 - with tragic consequence.

Journalist John Markoff writes about technology, society and the key figures who shaped Silicon Valley and the personal computer revolution. Markoff has distilled Brand's formative rise from the Merry Pranksters and the Whole Earth Catalog, to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism into his newest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand. Explore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminars

Nick Bostrom is a professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director.

Developer of Teclis, TinyGem, Kagi, & Orion.

Larry Charles talks about Dylan's idea for a TV show that turned into Masked and Anonymous.

We are inviting artists to illustrate scientists, activists, poets, and pioneers who are not visually represented on Wikipedia

~ Computer Scientist - Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory... wrote "AI is a fantasy"

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool - Richard Feynman. Cargo cult science is a pseudoscientific method of research that favors evidence that confirms an assumed hypothesis.

Jacques Tati (French: born Jacques Tatischeff, 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982)was a French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter

Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

July 15, 1979 - President Carter addressed the nation about the ongoing energy crisis and about the mood of America as a result of the crisis. He expressed concern that American democracy was threatened by “crisis of confidence” in which cynicism toward government had eroded faith in the American way of life.

Kajillionaire is a 2020 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Miranda July. The film stars Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins as members of a petty crime family whose relationship becomes frayed when a stranger played by Gina Rodriguez joins their schemes.

20th Century Women is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills and starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup. The film is set in 1970s Southern California and based in part on Mills' childhood.

How one video game tells the story of an industry.

Art / Painting

Carter & Ford 1976 commercials

Stephen M. Walt - speaking about his book.

But it does mean that it costs time and money to access a lot of true and important information, while a lot of bullshit is completely free.

The Well - Inkwell: Authors and Artists

Donald Knuth Interview

"Society needs people who work in hospitals; society needs all kinds of skills that are not just
cognitive, they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and
computers alone."

Off The Easel - Juryd Collab - http://www.andreit.com/