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5 Sci-Fi Books You Can Finish in a Weekend

From the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451 to Andy Weir's modern masterpiece The Martian, these sci-fi books are perfect for a weekend of reading.

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Denzel Washington's Sci-Fi Crime Thriller 'Déjà Vu' Is 'Minority Report' Meets 'Looper'

The sci-fi crime thriller Déjà Vu, starring Denzel Washington as an ATF agent who uses time travel to stop a terrorist, is streaming free on Tubi.

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Ridley Scott's Apple TV Crime Thriller Is a 10/10 Binge-Watch

Ridley Scott's Apple TV crime thriller Dope Thief, starring Wagner Moura and Brian Tyree Henry, is packed with action and dark humor.

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The Best Fantasy Book You Haven't Read Hits Harder Today Than Ever Before

Matthew Woodring Stover's Heroes Die is a grim science-fantasy tale with a scathing critique of violent entertainment that's more relevant than ever.

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Netflix's Addictive 2-Season Western Is a Near-Perfect Streaming Binge

Netflix's soapy romance Western Ransom Canyon is the perfect comfort watch and cozy escape.

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'Black Doves' Season 2 Is Bigger and Better in Every Way | Review

Black Doves Season 2, starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, is bigger, better, and even more binge-worthy this time around.

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J-lens preferentially reads from coordinate-aligned subspaces

Note: I only test on Gemma-4-31B, which contains the spaces I've been studying in this earlier post . This is a shorter post, with just a few observations potentially relevant to those working on the J-lens work. The main observations here are: In Gemma-4, there are two relatively small subspaces that account the majority of the J-lens readout. These are both coordinate-aligned subspaces. That means we can take a hidden state, mask out all coordinates except both these ~600 coordinate groups, and it will capture ~80-95% of the J-lens readout. These spaces are not built to capture J-lens contri

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Useful Junk

Occasionally people will get excited about a minimalism fad, where you figure out which of your possessions you need and keep only those. As someone who generally doesn't like getting rid of things, I've been thinking some about why, and the main thing I keep coming back to is that random objects can be helpful in unpredictable ways. Here are some things that I kept without a specific use in mind, but that ended up being useful. You could say they saved time or money, but often the biggest gain was from being able to do a project in one go with what I already had on hand: Ethernet cable. Back

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Gods of straight lines on graphs strike Starburst. I am shocked and puzzled.

LLM Intelligence, measured by Starburst, has been basically linear over time since that start of the reasoning era. By Chapin Lenthall-Cleary and Cole Gaboriault In summer 2024, my friend Cole and I started a hobby research program into perceptions of (human) intelligence. We started by creating a bespoke 1-5 intelligence scale [1] and rating people we knew. Our plan was to then make a bunch of tests, give them to the people we rated, and see which tests, if any, correlated with our ratings. One of those tests was Starburst. We’ve talked about it before ; in short, it’s a puzzle game where one

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My very good Conversation with Richard Hanania

Here is the video, audio, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: The first half of the conversation stays close to the text [Conrad’s Nostromo], covering the novel’s political backdrop, its deliberately scrambled timeline, the near-total absence of religion in Conrad’s universe, Nostromo’s own vanity and treatment of women, a close reading of […] The post My very good Conversation with Richard Hanania appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Bob Dylan comes knockin' on pope's door as Leo welcomes legend to Vatican

The American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican said the encounter was brief.

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What did the Romans ever give Scotland? Heated floors, flashy sandals, sun gods – and a lot of nails

From steamy bathhouses to altars to Sol the sun god and leather shoes that still survive to this day, an eye-opening new exhibition chronicles Scotland under the Romans (before they fled) Inveresk is a handsome village near Edinburgh that sits above a curve of the little river Esk, not far from the mighty Firth of Forth. It is full of elegant 18th-century houses and an attractive kirk, dated 1805. To the casual observer, there is absolutely nothing Roman about it. And yet, in 2010, when the local cricket pavilion was being rebuilt, an extraordinary find was made – two altars made of local sand

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‘Turner prize for dance’ winner Christos Papadopoulos: failure, friction and my forgotten youthquake

Amid galloping global crises, the Greek choreographer has returned to his revolutionary ideals. He explains how asking the near-impossible of dancers brings a shared joy Christos Papadopoulos is talking about how to spend £40,000. Specifically the winnings he scooped from the first ever Rose international prize for choreography in 2025 – the dance world’s equivalent of the Turner and the Booker. The Greek choreographer came out top of four finalists, picked by a judging panel including Arlene Phillips and PJ Harvey, for his piece Larsen C, a shadowy, trance-like and glacially paced crescendo o

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Norman conquest castle and Dickens chalet among sites added to heritage at risk register

William the Conquerer-built Hastings Castle and Swiss-style writing retreat in Kent two of nearly 200 additions to list A castle built by William the Conquerer, a Swiss-style chalet where Charles Dickens wrote and a swathe of fire-blasted moorland are among sites that have been added to Historic England’s heritage at risk register . Almost 200 historic places have been added to the already extensive list, including Hastings Castle in East Sussex , Dickens’ wooden writing retreat in Kent and Fylingdales Moor in North Yorkshire, which was devastated by a wildfire in the summer. Continue reading.

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TV tonight: how three rockstar chefs sparked a foodie revolution

A riveting documentary following the rise of Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal. Plus: the live final of Big Brother. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two “Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion,” says Marco Pierre White. “They don’t question you too much.” In the 1980s, the culinary desert of the UK saw the rise of three difficult, brilliant chefs (Pierre White was joined by Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal ) who triggered a foodie revolution. This three-parter doesn’t quite avoid presentational, era-specific cliches, but it does capture the energy generated

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Mystical visions: strange sightings at Bristol photo festival – in pictures

From women floating across the shore to magical patches of Irish land, this year’s exhibitions are full of fantastic yet confounding photography Continue reading...

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Black Doves review – Ben Whishaw, Keira Knightley and Sarah Lancashire are spine-tinglingly good

Series two of this rambunctiously entertaining espionage drama might be implausible. But it’s a magnetically acted tale of friendship, with moments of genuine poignance Is Helen Webb Britain’s busiest mum? Or Britain’s least busy mum? On the one hand, she’s got two kids, is the wife of the recently promoted prime minister and also a deep cover spy, who spends her days passing information about her husband’s work to a shady intelligence organisation and her nights on covert missions which often involve acts of bloody slaughter. Yet the reason she can do all this is that nobody expects her to do

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Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?

We were promised a panacea for the climate crisis and a way to save our food system. So why is nobody firing up the chicken vats? I went to find out On 5 August 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historic burger, made from cattle cells grown in a laboratory by Mark Post , a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost €250,000 (about £210,000 at the time), money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Now it was being tasted in public for the first time at Riverside Studi

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DEAD DHARMA

Rae, an author, academic, and musician, examines the Grateful Dead’s eventful history and “points to the unique fusion of the band’s ethos and praxis with elements of Buddhist thought.” Certainly, the band’s countercultural milieu was awash in Eastern and Native American spirituality, and, though none of the group’s members practiced Buddhism as such, many of their precursors, peers, and followers did. Moreover, the Dead frequently emphasized the spiritual aspect of their project, placing it squarely in what Rae’s subtitle calls “the American quest for transcendence.” Rather than offering a tr

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LIJAH

The novel begins with 15-year-old Lijah coming home to an empty townhouse. His mother has apparently stepped out, and his truck-driver father, who’s been away for work, should have returned days ago. Peace Force officers suddenly show up and drive Lijah to a massive building called Linderhaven. As he checks in, he finds that both his and his mother’s names are wrong on the paperwork; Mother Ruth, who runs the facility, says that he can only stay if he keeps his real name a secret. Lijah soon settles in, despite initial reluctance, thanks to such kindhearted people as his new roommate, Sion Ost

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. Blockers: Rebels

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. The Calamity

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Remember the Bees

The grandfather looks out at the sky and the bright red earth. He instinctively raises the back of his hand to his brow to wipe away a few beads of sweat. The heat, which came early this year, will linger

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ChatNest

Folders and a prompt library for your AI chats Discussion | Link

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