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"This highly entertaining, dare we say absorbing, book is 'a sort of Around the World in Eighty Toilets,' as Sir Peter Bazalgette — whose great-great-grandfather designed the London sewer system — proclaims in his foreword."
—New York Times Book Review

https://t.co/DpriiCD9G5

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

Ebola has a running head start. By the time the outbreak in DRC was detected, there were already many suspected cases and deaths. We’ve seen that if you reach an Ebola outbreak in days, you can stop it in weeks. Months of delay? It will take much, much longer. That’s why countries need to surge support to affected communities now. https://t.co/jkMXQwZ55w

[Arts & Letters Daily @aldaily]

Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations... https://t.co/l7egkO79vc

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"Audrey Watters ... argues that despite tech titans’ futuristic rhetoric, what they’re selling is not, in fact, about the future at all. Rather, it’s a warmed-over Cold War fantasy that robot tutors can prevent another national embarrassment like Sputnik." https://t.co/PpyCU76b3G

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

Loving the open-access release of @MITPress's new volume on Dennett’s Real Patterns: https://t.co/SxUTvxCIUl
It's the perfect primer for our forthcoming volume, "Embodied Intelligence" (out June 23rd!). 🧠
Once you explore how data structures and patterns define nature, join us to see how biological and artificial agents use those very architectures to navigate, sense, and act in the world. 🤖6/23/26
https://t.co/ZyYxflsWrj
#OpenAccess #MITPress. #EmbodiedIntelligence #CognitiveScience #ActiveInference

[Longreads @Longreads]

"'Well, we’re dated!' the wife complains to her husband. 'That abstractionist next door built his house in space-time.'"

Gabriele Neri for @mitpress: https://t.co/dQX3TFiuNl

[Ben Rothke @benrothke]

My @OneRSAC book of the month review: Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, by Cindy Cohn of @EFF, pub. by @MITPress. She writes of #EFF cases w/ @NSAGov #NSA, @Snowden & many other #privacy issues to protect individuals. https://t.co/mW14KdGwAM

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

🚨 Today is a milestone in US AI policy, and an unbelievable moment for me, personally. 🚨

Here’s what I told @senjohnkennedy was the most important policy to implement, at the US Senate in May 2023, and what Trump signed today.

I can’t take credit for causality, but it’s thrilling to see a wish come true.

May any such oversight be bipartisan, and in the interest of American citizens, and in the interests of humanity as a whole.

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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📙

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“AI perceptual differences could become particularly relevant to us as we begin to share more of our physical environment with AIs.” https://t.co/XMVThgTPRs

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"Initiated by chronically online crusaders, these degradation ceremonies serve no purpose beyond affirming the moral rectitude of their participants."

A deep dive on sensitivity reads & publishing featuring Adam Szetela's "That Book Is Dangerous!":
https://t.co/BuBGu9rRGc

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During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy built a vast underwater listening system to detect enemy submarines. But its hydrophones picked up something unexpected: whale songs traveling across enormous distances. https://t.co/Ajxo0D4Trq

[Andrew Keen @ajkeen]

Is America Unfinished or Just Getting Started?, by @ajkeen https://t.co/rd1tuRjUbg

“As long as democracy is a collective endeavour of all the people who belong to it, in some sense it can never be finished — because we are constantly bequeathing to the next generation the opportunity and the freedom to have these conversations over and over again.” — @ANatapoff

It’s less than six weeks until the semiquincentennial. While official America 250 store is selling T-shirts, Harvard Law School is doing something slightly less commercial. 62 HLS professors have written 1,000-word essays, assembled into a single volume to be published on July 4. Entitled America Unfinished: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Law and Governance, it’s co-edited by Alexandra Natapoff, a Harvard Law professor who spent years as a federal public defender in Baltimore. The title, of course, is borrowed from the Gettysburg Address, where Lincoln charged the living with completing “the unfinished work” of those who died in the Civil War.

So is America unfinished or is it just getting started? For Natapoff and other Harvard Law School professors like this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning Jill Lepore, the answer is suitably complex. Yes and no and maybe. Everything all at once. The essays focus on 250 years of both justice and injustice in America. Perhaps the only thing all authors agree on is the central role of capitalism in the history of the United States. Follow the money, Natapoff suggests. Those dollars will transport the reader to the heart of the American story.

That said, America Unfinished will certainly cost you less than a three-year Harvard Law degree. And if you wait six months, the book will be available at no cost online. So follow the money. It will take you to some unexpectedly free places.

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"Also visible from space is a thin, blue line that seems to hover just above our planet’s surface: the atmosphere. It’s a reminder that there is only a narrow zone that allows life on Earth to flourish, and that we must protect it." https://t.co/M21fRUw1D3

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"A shift in the timing of blooms without an attendant shift in when their pollinators are active reduces how many flowers can produce fruit as well as crucial food resources for the pollinators." https://t.co/cMOB34x33y

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For the cinephiles: @A24's "Backrooms" is out today. ICYMI, here’s a great piece on the surprisingly deep history behind Backrooms — touching on everything from Gothic literature to internet folklore to video game culture to ’80s nostalgia: https://t.co/p3SAXirdtZ

[Amanda Pearson @Pearson_ink]

Spring 2026 issue preview @IntSecHarvard!

@eunajo_ @jessicacweiss | ideology
Rosato | security dilemma
@Fiona_Cunning @kbruusgaard | great powers' nuclear first-use options
@the_nuclearyogi @rohan_mukh | India’s nuclear restraint
Davis & Gholz | blockade against Taiwan's ports

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"Part memoir, part exposé, and part historical record, Privacy’s Defender will at once perturb, inform, and inspire you."
https://t.co/jnQdYGBcV2

[Taylor R. Genovese @trgenovese]

You can now download my chapter for free through
@mitpress direct!

https://t.co/cNRLHPVLoK

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“Big Tech is essentially its own religion with its own theology and rites, not to mention its own power and influence. Pope Leo’s encyclical will be automatically viewed as false doctrine.” https://t.co/9NTZAqVR3X