For the 2022 Paxos Biennale, Greek artist The Krank makes a big metaphor (out of land art) regarding humanity’s impact on the planet.

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Light a cigarette anywhere in my house, and you’ll be dazzled by the flow of the smoke—up and around, through doorways, swirling toward the ceiling and then back to the floor, inscribing elegant arcs through t…

There’s no peace temple at Ba’al Hatzor. This country might draw dreamers, but it has other plans. The hill remains an ambiguous place, one that suggests unsettling truths about humans while never quite reveal…

An Iowa State math expert believed we need to kill the moon to fix our climate. “The genius of man will one day accept my ideas.”

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Tips from Ethereum creator Vitalik on how to fit your life into a bag. “It’s like frugality, but for cm3 instead of dollars.”

↩︎ Vitalik Buterin

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You’ve heard about the amazingness of Dall-E, Open AI’s image generator; the second version, coming soon, looks even more remarkable.

But you may not be among the people spending hours playing around with Dall-E 2 Mini, which tends to render human faces like Francis Bacon. It’s fun. Some things we’ve seen:

We like the Instagram account @ai_dreamsss, which has a flair for the high concept.

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Almost as long as there have been hot dogs, there’s been “hot dog diplomacy,” the act of feeding them to foreign leaders.

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A short essay by Nuar Alsadir about spontaneous outbursts of laughter in public. “I worried I would look foolish.”

↩︎ The Paris Review

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