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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
Jim Nielsen compares Daniel Ellsberg's account of RAND's missile-gap years, where staff felt a quasi-religious mission and doubted they'd live to collect retirement, with today's rhetoric from AI labs like Anthropic.
2 min · 425 words
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens
A nostalgic look back at the memory card and save file screens of sixth-generation consoles, the Dreamcast VMU, GameCube, PS2 and original Xbox, and why their game-specific icons and quirky menus were a small treasure that modern cover-art save menus have lost.
3 min · 614 words
George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts
Sam Hall Kaplan on George Lucas’s return to terrestrial concerns—architecture, museums, and civic gifts—after decades defining cinematic worlds, and what that means for place-making.
4 min · 922 words