A list of good reads
- Dario Amodei, the COE of Anthropic, has an excellent deep dive on machines of loving grace—how AI could transform the world for the better.
- Alex Abad-Santos in Vox looks at the aggressively and brutally companionless divorced guy aesthetic of Elon Musk, Ben Affleck, and Jeff Bezos.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has a lovely read on how Maggie Smith’s face—in her last campaign with the brand Loewe—has something to teach us.
- Also in New York Times (login required): Wiley Staley writes about how everyone got lost in Netflix’s endless library.
- Speaking of Netflix, Empire Magazine has a thought-provoking read on audiences being unable to keep up with streaming shows, and how they’re paying the price for it.
- Elizabeth Grenier in Deutsche Welle asks how the K-wave started and why South Korean culture is now a global hit.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) lifts the lid on Nairobi’s National Museum, which is overflowing with prehistoric treasures and in a race to save its collection from decay.
- Thrillist looks at Instagram etiquette to decode the correct way to document your travels these days.
- Statistician David Spiegelhalter in The Guardian wonders if we should be thinking about luck differently.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) explores whether the practice of siblings’ therapy—like couples’—should be more common.
