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Nolan's Odyssey is closer to Homer than most movies are to their source books. compactmag.com/article/post-l…

"Odysseus is the Oppenheimer of Ancient Greece." @johnbyronkuhner reviews Christopher Nolan's Odyssey: compactmag.com/article/the-wh…

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey projects white guilt onto Greek myth compactmag.com/article/the-wh…

“So far, opponents of AI have overwhelmingly focused on predicting its economic effects. But AI is more than just another industrial revolution. It is—already—a moral and cosmological cataclysm.” Brilliant, urgent look at the threat AI poses to our republic and our civilization.

Chicago is floating bonds to cover operational expenses compactmag.com/article/americ…

"Some blue governments may be closer to default than is generally supposed." compactmag.com/article/americ…

I wrote for @compactmag about the running craze and why neurotic performance goals are no more noble than aesthetic ones

I wrote for @compactmag about the new marathon sign-ups, Gen Z neuroses and excessive self-monitoring compactmag.com/article/how-ev…

“It is no more noble to be a metrics obsessive than to want to look good in a bikini,” argues @fbasboll: compactmag.com/article/how-ev…

AI will undo everything conservatives and liberals claim to cherish. A brilliant and challenging argument from Greg Conti compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

Mitch McConnell may not be long for this earth but McConnellism is alive and well in the GOP. For @compactmag: compactmag.com/article/the-re…

Mitch McConnell's strange disappearance and abrupt resurrection is a metaphor for his Trump-era career, argues @ryan_zickgraf: compactmag.com/article/the-re…

Persuasive…

“There are also good reasons to oppose generative AI as we already know it.” compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

"AI portends not merely adverse economic or security impacts, but an irrevocable change in human life." Gregory Conti on why we must oppose AI: compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

Conservatives are being far too passive about AI technology. Tech oligarchs are openly cheering the obsolescence of the human being. That's not something to just "regulate later." Greg Conti for @compactmag compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

A world dominated by AI will have no use for democracy compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

Which is precisely what Marx predicted would happen

If the industry’s leaders are to be believed, AI is unlike any previous technology. It is a fundamental threat to democracy, capitalism, private property, individual freedom, and personal responsibility. compactmag.com/article/the-ai…

AI—not merely the future superintelligence promised by the industry, but the versions that currently exist—is a civilizational catastrophe, argues Greg Conti: compactmag.com/article/the-ai…