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@theatlantic.comGener8ion's “Storm” music video has become the subject of AI parody, @skornhaber.bsky.social reports. The video's choreographer told him that seeing a celebration of human bodies become slop has been “very disturbing, to be honest, and very dystopian.”
@theatlantic.comOn “The Permanent Questions,” the philosopher Shelly Kagan makes the case to David Brooks that human souls do not exist—and that we might not need them in order to embrace the wonder and mystery of being alive:
@theatlantic.comJennifer Welch's “rise as a progressive influencer, the growing popularity of her rhetorical style, and the leftward pressure she and her followers are putting on the Democratic Party exemplify a larger current” among U.S. progressives, James Kirchick argues.
@theatlantic.comIn Ohio, a trucker tries to make sense of the moment when Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant, stepped in front of his path, @mccrummen.bsky.social reports. “I keep on thinking about it,” Jack Buhring told her: theatln.tc/SVoXf5ba
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@theatlantic.comTexan politicians are using a variety of means, including AI bots, to control what can be taught, researched, and even discussed at its universities, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
@theatlantic.comExclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, Vauhini Vara reports:
@theatlantic.comA novel’s first line carries enormous weight—in The Atlantic Daily, Atlantic writers and editors share some of their favorite first lines in modern literature. We want to know: What first line of a book has stuck with you?
@theatlantic.comFor his new weekly newsletter, Video Village, @davidlsims.bsky.social lists the 10 movies that capture how strange the 2020s have been thus far:
@theatlantic.comDavid Brooks thinks he has a soul. The Yale University philosophy professor Shelly Kagan, who has taught a famous course on death for more than 40 years, is pretty sure neither of them does. They talk it over on this week’s episode of The Permanent Questions.
@theatlantic.comMore oil is moving through the Strait of Hormuz, much of it via risky maneuvers under American military cover—but this new status quo is neither sustainable nor scalable, writes Alan Eyre:
@theatlantic.comThe loss of a dog can devastate human caretakers—sometimes more than the loss of a person would, Tommy Tomlinson argued in 2024. theatln.tc/Eeks11W0
@theatlantic.comThe biggest source of inequality in the U.S. is a gaping hole in the tax code—and no one is talking about it, Rogé Karma argues. theatln.tc/BO6jVWth
@theatlantic.comVideo Village, @davidlsims.bsky.social’s new weekly newsletter, brings criticism, recommendations, and commentary about the world of movies straight to your inbox. Sign up today:
@theatlantic.comSarah J. Maas’s romantasy series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” has dominated the best-seller lists for months. Honor Jones examines the appeal of these books—and why there’s more to the genre than many people assume:
@theatlantic.com“A coincidence can simply remind us how many connections are possible in a life, and how much depends on what we notice,” Rafaela Jinich writes in The Wonder Reader. She explores a collection of stories about what chance encounters reveal about our minds:
@theatlantic.comMany people confuse having access to experts with understanding a topic for themselves—and this “contagious sense of understanding” could proliferate as humans turn to AI for answers, Tania Lombrozo writes:
@theatlantic.comPhotos of AI-generated fish filling the feeds of fishing hobbyists may seem like no big deal—but the anger these images produce reveals what happens when AI makes it impossible to trust what we see, Tyler Austin Harper argues:
@theatlantic.comPeople keep getting caught for using AI to write about AI, @willoremus.com reports. He examines why the individuals who are warning about this technology don’t always seem to be following their own advice:
@theatlantic.comA new documentary lays bare the human failings of Elon Musk—and the faith people put in him anyway, Megan Garber argues:
@theatlantic.comSarah J. Maas’s romantasy series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” has dominated the best-seller lists for months. Honor Jones examines the appeal of these books—and why there’s more to the genre than many people assume:
