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Aida Alami at n+1:
When Morocco’s winning penalty hit the back of the net, the crowd inside Zikrayat, a Middle Eastern restaurant and lounge in Astoria, erupted in cheers. People danced in celebration and the high-pitched, howling trill of a zaghrouta pierced the air.
It had been a tense game be...
Ed Simon at the Paris Review:
The philosopher’s stone, desired by alchemists for its mythic ability to transmute lead into gold, was once in Philadelphia. Johannes Kelpius—mystic, monastic, and magician—supposedly came into possession of said stone shortly before his death in 1708. But rather than letting it be acquired by less reput...
Joseph O’Connor in The Guardian:
It had never occurred to me that writing could make your blood fizz with delight. I don’t exaggerate when I say Salinger had the same effect on me as hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time. This was Pretty Vacant in prose. And though it was published 75 years ago this month, it’s still as captiva...
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten:
You’ve probably heard about this one by now. If not, you can get up to speed with OpenAI’s statement, OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident