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4 postsArts & Culture Article · 3 min read
A standing page on Disney as culture and history, starting with a 48-minute 1968 television tour of Disneyland's workshop and the new Tomorrowland. Updated whenever there is a good piece of history, a rediscovered film, or news worth keeping.
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Arts & Culture Article · 4 min read
A friend sent a joke chart plotting screen size against corporate rank, with the CEO on an iPhone and the bottom rung behind two monitors. It's satire with no data behind it, but it's funny because it's half true. Here's which half, and what the chart accidentally gets right about who has to look at
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Music Article · 7 min read
A four-and-a-half-minute music video dressed up as the sleeve and run-out groove of a vinyl record plays "Feel the AGI" as a country-gospel revival number, setting the AI-safety community's own private vocabulary — Moloch, the orthogonality thesis, p(doom), the fire alarm, the context window — as th
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Arts & Culture Article · 8 min read
Lidl just opened what it's calling the world's first supermarket pub, in Northern Ireland — a clever workaround for a liquor-licensing dead end. A Pennsylvania grocery chain built the same thing in 2009, and the reason it never became the industry norm has nothing to do with imagination and everythi
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Music Article · 9 min read
A five-minute music video credited to Claude Opus 5.5 takes on "AI as Normal Technology," the 2025 essay arguing AI will spread at the slow pace of electricity, and calls out the essay's skeptic allies by name: Acemoglu, Solow, Baumol, Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun. It's a diss track aimed at an economics
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Music Article · 5 min read
Kling AI 4.0 shipped on September 28 with a launch-day demo built to look like anything but an ad — a black-and-white concert film of a woman singing to an empty seat, one caption line letting the song's actual subject slip through. Second entry in the Notebook's running AI-music collection.
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