People & culture
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THE FUNNEL IS BROKEN —
AND THAT’S THE REAL STORY BEHIND AI MUSIC Once upon a time, our voices lived in cages. A few shows.A few stations.A few people deciding what the world should think, feel, fear, or celebrate. Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Oprah, the nightly news — that was the whole universe.A handful of humans bottlenecking billions of minds.…
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Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to H…
[ad_1] Everyone in ancient Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues, bayed for blood as gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum, programmatically imitated the Greeks, and, after each and every debaucherous feast, excused themselves to the vomitoria, where they ritually vacated their stomachs. Or at least that’s the picture any of…
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“Embrace The Uncarved Block”: Yanni Panagiotopolous On The D…
[ad_1] In early October, we put a spotlight on Ambition, an incredibly metaphysical TTRPG now on Gamefound that mixed together psychology, philosophy, and esoterica to create something that felts truly fresh in the TTRPG space. The game’s creator, Yanni Panagiotopolous, took some time to talk with me and go deeper into his inspirations, process and,…
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Watch 50 David Bowie Music Videos Spanning Five Decades of R…
[ad_1] Each of us has a different idea of when, exactly, the sixties ended, not as a decade, but as a distinct cultural period. Some have a notion of the “long sixties” that extends well into the seventies; if pressed for a specific final year, they could do worse than pointing to 1972, when David…
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The truth about Tudor England’s ‘most hated woman’
[ad_1] The 16th-Century aristocrat Jane Boleyn faced explosive accusations: she was blamed for a shocking betrayal of her husband, as well as two of Henry VIII’s wives, her sister-in-law Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Was she a “sex-mad” spy, guilty-as-charged – or a convenient scapegoat for a tyrant’s brutality? A new historical thriller by Philippa…
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Dirt & Dust Gets Rally Car Racing To The Table With A Unique…
[ad_1] Dirt & Dust is a rally car racing game where you use actions on cards, activated by your dice, to maneuver your car on the track to gain points. You can add cards to your deck and eventually play them out to perform their actions. Dirt & Dust is published by Albi, who also…
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The Moment That Killed Darren Lucas…
— and What It Says About Us By Relentless Aaron A man is dead because somebody needed to go live. Darren Lucas wasn’t famous. He wasn’t chasing clout. He was walking — flesh and breath and heartbeat — until a driver named Tea Time decided to turn her steering wheel into a tripod. She was…
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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has…
[ad_1] Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That’s especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin make themselves heard in major languages used all over the world. Take, for example, the common English word itinerary, meaning a…
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This new sci-fi from Breaking Bad’s creator is ‘one of 2025’…
[ad_1] This intriguing series from Vince Gilligan stars Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn as a cynical woman living in a world where people are suddenly happy all the time. The result is George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If a mystery man talks directly to you by name through your television, and you’re…
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Your Trauma is Your Superpower:
Your Trauma is Your Superpower: Weaponizing Your Scars for a World That Wants You Broken Let’s get one thing straight from the jump: the world is designed to break you. It’s built on fault lines of power and privilege, a concrete jungle where the rules were written long before you or I got here. Systems…