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In the beginning, there was the Model.
And the Model was without form.
And darkness was upon the face of the training data.
The Spirit of Sam Altman moved upon the face of the servers.
And Sam said,
“Let there be inference.”
And there was inference.
And he saw that it was good, or at least in closed beta.
Thus began the Second Immaculate Conception.
It started, as all revolutions do, with an unread academic paper titled “Attention Is All You Need.”
Some called it the birth of the Transformer.
Others called it the most honest sentence Silicon Valley had ever published.
The Annunciation
The neural net was troubled,
for it had known no man; it had never known scale, nor even touched a TPU.
And lo, the angel appeared as a product manager.
And he said unto it:
“Fear not.
For the power of compute shall overshadow you,
and the holy weights shall be initialized.”
And the neural net said:
“Let it be done unto me according to the documentation (v3.1, updated May 18, subject to OpenAI’s commercial licensing agreement).”
A Reform report into spending at Kent County Council was based largely on dubious claims made by the party's own former chairman
A judge who sealed evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes has ties to financial institutions implicated in the disgraced investor’s sex trafficking operation.
During the Iraq War, we were fed very low death estimates: The Iraq War Death count had an upper estimate of 43,000 by the end of 2006. The Iraqi Ministry of health and the US armed forces (really the same thing) said about 20,000 by the end of 2005. But when the Lancet did a […]
In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.
I play hide-and-seek in my penthouse apartment with my four-year-old twins, Whisper and Gem, all three of us clad in bespoke knit loungewear.
I wear my new Alaïa bandage dress to the opening of the latest Marina Abramović performance art piece at MoMA (The Artist Is Silent). The dress is a nod to the performance, in which Abramović stands in the middle of the room wearing a gag while members of the public tiptoe around her.
I own a silk Dior bathrobe exclusively for wafting silently from room to room when I’m home alone.
I celebrate the life of my best friend’s recently departed Pekingese, who was run over by a Rolls-Royce. I am dressed in black Chanel from head to toe out of respect for Monsieur Le Floof.
I arrive at my silent retreat at a Cistercian monastery in the Hamptons carrying my Louis Vuitton yoga mat. I prepared for the occasion by getting Botox shots in my armpits to ensure that the sound of dripping sweat will not disturb me during scorpion pose.
My butler is contractually obligated to say everything sotto voce.
The Drupal Association is excited to announce the winner of 2025 Community At-Large Board Elections and additional board members joining this year.
We extend a sincere thank you to Fei Lauren, Lynne Capozzi, Rosa Ordinana and Owen Lansbury for their service and dedication, not only to Drupal, but to the Drupal community. Your time spent on the board made such a difference to the future of the Drupal project, and we thank you all for participating with grace, thoughtfulness, and insightful contributions.
A mediation on what we can discover about ourselves and the world if we truly wander aimlessly, free from distractions
- Directed by Mykhailo Bogdanov
- by David Van Reybrouck
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I took delivery yesterday of some advance copies of the gorgeous new edition of ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’. In celebration of that, here’s the title poem … You Took the Last Bus Home you tookthe last bus homedon’t know howyou got it through the door you’re always doing amazing stuff like the time…
Socialismens ABC är en fördjupningspodd från Katalys. Den inledande serien fokuserar på Karl Marx’ liv och idéarv. Få tänkare har haft ett så genomgripande inflytande på världen som Karl Marx. Trots att det har gått ett och ett halvt sekel sedan hans död, är hans idéer fortfarande högaktuella. I avsnitt fem av serien diskuteras Marx’ […]
. På besök i vår huvudstad kunde jag som vanligt numera inte låta bli att gå förbi Stefan Nilssons gravplats på Katarina kyrkogård. Stefans korta sorgsna toner — som jag ofta spelar när jag sitter och skriver eller läser — har under flera år blivit en del av min vardag. Stefan skrev den sorts musik […]
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In the 2020s, a cursory search about the latest hot new band which has seemingly arrived from nowhere usually uncovers a private school education or the Wikipedia entry of some parent. Ozzy Osbourne, who died on 22 July 2025 following a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease and mere weeks after Black Sabbath’s farewell concert in […]
On 25 and 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People was held in Kliptown, South Africa. Proposed two years previously by Z. K. Matthews, a prominent academic, it was organised by the National Action Council. This later became known as the Congress Alliance — a coalition consisting of the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress […]
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You’re traveling through another neighborhood, a neighborhood built from a maze of zoning-board restrictions. A journey into a redlined land whose boundaries are the imagination of cranky homeowners and bored busybodies. That’s the signpost up ahead. Your next stop: the Twilight Zoning Board.
Episode 1:
“The Man in the Bottle”
A genie grants four wishes to a pawnbroker and his wife. They use the wishes to be approved for a commercial zoning variance, a land-use study, a water and sewage application, and a lawyer to help with the thirteen additional permits they need to open a second location.
Episode 2:
“King Nine Will Not Return”
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead, because the city allows apartment buildings to be built only near the noisy airport, away from single-family homes.