A list of good reads
- Sarah Aziza in Jewish Currents writes a moving essay on witnessing the tragedy unfold in Gaza as a diasporic Palestinian—and the helplessness that accompanies it.
- The Guardian has an interesting read on how the internet—specifically Instagram—has led to a form of “global ubiquity”, such as the generic hipster cafe.
- Also in The Guardian: Elle Hunt argues that we should develop a gentler way of thinking about our vices.
- Ava in bookbear express pays an entertaining ode to uselessness. We love this adage: “The useless days will add up to something”
- New York Times (splainer gift link) notes that the era of peak television may have come to an end.
- Alex Reisner in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) analyses the technical problem ‘memorisation’—that could lead to the downfall of generative AI.
- Scroll takes a deep dive into the disturbing trend in Western academia to outsource intellectual labour to research assistants in countries like India—who are eventually erased out of publications.
- Al Jazeera has a must-read on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan.
- Aeon has an excellent essay on how there was a grand politically and intellectually connected world in Asia even before the existence of modern Europe.
- Nature takes a fascinating look at the many theories on how the brain produces conscious experience.
