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“‘We’re definitely NOT showing nipple,’ he says. We. I love when agents say ‘we’ about nudity.”
Hollywood actor Kathleen Robertson, veteran of TV shows like Reacher and Beverly Hills 90210, on what it's like to shoot a sex scene with somebody you met twelve minutes ago — while dozens of crew members watch kathleenrobert7.substack.com…
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Streetlights do more than just illuminate the roads. Via nighttime light remote sensing, they reveal information governments would rather suppress on growth, poverty, and war.
For @bigthink, cartography expert Frank Jacobs explains how a Cold War accident gave us an "extraordinarily good lie detector": bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
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Relationship-building coach Rob Riker shares simple ways to connect better with others and be a more enjoyable person. You don't need to be cool: “You need to care about something enough that your enthusiasm becomes contagious” robriker.substack.com/p/4-wa…
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Do you find yourself bookmarking things to read later, but then never revisiting the tab—and feeling guilty as the to-read pile gets higher?
Librarian and information literacy expert Hana Lee Goldin on why we save things instead of reading them, and how it deceives us:
"To us, the tap still feels like a plan: this piece, but later. The platform counting that tap reads it as engagement, one more sign the feed kept us interested, whether or not we ever actually return to the piece"
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"Here's the thing: I've either never found the one thing I'm truly passionate about, or I'm just quietly, equally, stupidly passionate about everything."
@DanKennedy_NYC, humorist and longtime host of The Moth storytelling podcast, on why you may not need to find your "one true passion" to live a happy life bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
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"Men are willing to buy and read something that will propel them to act in the world: dust the cheetos off themselves, do 20 push-ups, and take up the worthwhile pursuit of self-actualization."
George Aldous, writing in his Substack Kill Switch, examines the decline in reading among men, and puts the blame on a publishing industry that is hostile to "both masculinity as a concept and masculine influences" killtheswitch.substack.com/p…
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Comedian and podcaster @mattwritesbooks knows what it's like to lose your stoke—and exactly how to get it back. Read his whole manifesto on his new Substack, STOKE STACK: mattmccusker.substack.com/p/…
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The iconic @CaroleRadziwill plugs her Substack on RHONY 🧡 Subscribe now so you don't miss out on the next Radzi Report: caroleradziwill.substack.com…
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Cardiac arrest in young athletes is rare, but often deadly. New York Times bestselling author @DavidEpstein has studied it his whole career. In this post he explains the simple things bystanders can do to save a life davidepstein.substack.com/p/…
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Radical-optimist futurist @kevin2kelly, founding editor of Wired and bestselling author of What Technology Wants, shares a series of axioms "for anyone trying to take a long view", in 88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking kevinkelly.substack.com/p/88…
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goop was the original lifestyle email newsletter, launched 18 years ago by @GwynethPaltrow—fresh off her debut as Pepper Potts in the first Iron Man.
That first email, sharing well-loved recipes and favorite shopping finds, went out from her kitchen in London to a small circle of her friends and family.
We're so excited to see Gwyneth bring back that same personal touch with the launch of goop's Substack. Read her first post: goop.substack.com/p/welcome-…
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Startups are building datasets to enable telepathy. Soon, they may be able to read your mind. But AI policy researcher @KellerScholl warns the technology could become a tool for tyrants:
“The problem with mindreading is that it is an asymmetric technology that disproportionately helps those who rule without consent”
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“When asked to operate for extended periods of time (i.e. days), current models converge on a state that, in humans, would be seen as a mental breakdown.”
Harvard statistical geneticist @SashaGusevPosts tested frontier LLMs on PhD-level projects. The result: “three months of PhD output in 10 minutes”—but with some major caveats theinfinitesimal.substack.co…
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▶️ Multicast to YouTube is now live on Substack
Substack is the home base for thousands of video-first creators, because it's where they can share their work, build a community, and make money directly from fans, all in one place.
Now, you can now go live to your Substack audience and your YouTube audience at the same time.
Just connect YouTube, and set public/unlisted/private before you go live. You can start the YouTube stream partway through, and end it without stopping your Substack stream.
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Welcome @taylortomlinson to Substack and congrats on the launch of your new book
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“The mother of all progress traps—industrial modernity, triggering Earth-system collapse and causing global resource depletion—has already snapped its jaws shut in the West, triggering a slow motion collapse of the Jenga tower it helped building over the past two centuries.”
The Honest Sorcerer argues that, based on the inevitable physics of resource extraction, our society is in “a double bind we seemingly cannot escape” thehonestsorcerer.substack.c…
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🎙️ Always wanted to start a podcast?
On Substack, you can launch your podcast with audio and video, automatically generate transcripts and clips to post on social media, distribute to Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and use our built-in discovery network to grow your audience.
Hosting is free forever—you only pay when you make money from subscriptions.
Check out our complete guide to getting started: support.substack.com/hc/en-u…
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From 2022: philosopher & ethicist @AmandaAskell on how combative reasoning can help you develop more accurate beliefs. "Motivated reasoning is only as bad as your motives" askellio.substack.com/p/pala…
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Just launched: Swedish DJ, producer, and label co-founder @KornelKovacs has a global following in electronic dance music. He'll share his music writing & curated playlists on his Substack, Radio Koko.
His first Substack-exclusive post surveys techno's cartoonish and absurd "clown minimal" phase & catalogs 20 key tracks from the era. Read: kornelkovacs.substack.com/p/…
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"I don't know anyone who likes the idea of destroying books. People have a visceral response to it."
Small independent bookshops across the US have been deluged with orders for books from the AI model companies—where they are "de-spined by an electric guillotine, fed into a high-speed scanner, and tossed into a Dumpster."
Career used bookseller Scott Brown explains the legal rationale for destructive scanning, and the scale of what has become "one of the largest libricides on record" downtownbrown.substack.com/p…
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Read the full excerpt from Tories: The End of an Error on Russell's Substack: russincheshire.substack.com/…
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"With that blunder fixed, the paper's findings were reversed. Its revolutionary, earth-shattering, internationally important economic theory was proved wrong."
In this excerpt from his new book, Sunday Times bestselling author Russell Jones explains how the UK's post-2010 austerity program can be traced back to a mistake in an Excel spreadsheet
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"As a national security expert, mother and aspiring grandmother, the answer to me is obvious: we must act now to protect humanity. To do any less is to accede to potential collective suicide."
Former US National Security Advisor @AmbassadorRice argues global leaders must cooperate now to make sure recursively self-improving AI doesn't lead to catastrophic harm—or even human extinction.
Read her full proposal for a global "freeze in place" on advanced AI training: susanrice484054.substack.com…
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“Nims Purja died doing the thing that made him feel most completely alive. There is something deeply uncomfortable about writing that sentence.”
Leadership coach and performance scientist Hassan Khan reflects on the death of a record-breaking climber killed in an avalanche, and explains why high-altitude mountaineers take risks that make them feel "almost mythological"
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“GLP-1s aren’t a moral failing; they are a health tool. For many of us, they are the catalyst that make diet and exercise more likely to succeed.”
Governor of Illinois @JBPritzker shares his personal story of how he lost 80 pounds with the help of weight-loss drugs, and why expanding access to them is a "responsibility" for governments
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"What I teach is rather than filling your sentence full of ice cubes, serve your words neat."
@Michael_Easter interviews trial lawyer @jefferson_fishr about what he learned in the courtroom about tough conversations, when to avoid sarcasm, and how to leverage five seconds of silence
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“It was the first draft I watched all the way through, the first time I understood that a team I loved could reach into a room full of teenagers and pick one, and that the pick would then belong to us. Sweetney belonged to us.”
Knicks writer and lifelong fan Lee Escobedo reflects on Mike Sweetney, the 2003 lottery pick so many wrote off as a bust, and revises his verdict
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Cancer prevention is becoming personalized. Medical oncologist Daniel Flora on emerging biomarkers and how they can help "intercept" disease—and why "more testing" isn't always the right call dfloramd.substack.com/p/why-…
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Read the full post on Dan's Substack, Conspicuous Cognition: conspicuouscognition.com/p/t…
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"The fundamental puzzle, then, is not why some people believe false things, but how any of us, some of the time, manage not to."
Philosopher Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil on how the same social machinery that produces knowledge makes us vulnerable to delusion—and why "solitary reasoning is treacherous"
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“I’ve been studying the Stoics for three decades and teaching these techniques to therapy clients, workshop participants, and readers for most of that time.”
A cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, @DonJRobertson is an expert on stoic thought.
In his Substack, he teaches practical Stoic techniques that have been used for two thousand years to manage anxiety, cultivate calm, and build resilience.
The goal: developing the ability to "stand steadily and see clearly through the chaos" donaldrobertson.substack.com…
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Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina @dr_kkjetelina and applied epidemiologist Dr. Claire Dillavou argue AI lowers the knowledge barrier to dangerous biology, and call for protecting data and forcing transparency to mitigate risks:
“AI plausibly increases the risk at the margin. Whether that increase is small or catastrophic depends on factors such as AI capability trajectories, biosecurity responses, governance, etc.” yourlocalepidemiologist.subs…
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