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1. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis – Full Session
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
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2. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Rick Moody and Brendan Canty at Salmagundi : The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis constitute one of the most interesting and rewarding bands of the 2020s. Like many listeners familiar with the independent music of the 90s, I was interested in the early trio formation of the this group (consisting of the former rhythm section of Fugazi—Joe Lally on bass, and Brendan Canty on drums—and Anthony Pirog, a specialist-in-all-styles on guitar) back when they started, back before the pandemic, and I especially liked their second album in that configuration, Anthropocosmic Nest, where no strange idea is unworthy of being set to an infectious rhythm. But when the band began collaborating with the remarkably versatile saxophonist James Brandon Lewis it was as if they sprouted a brace of extra capabilities. Suddenly they were thinking and making melodies in a way so incredibly broad, and with such
3. On audiophilia
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Colin Vanderburg at n + 1 : I listen to music, but what I hear is sound. Texture, timbre, and tone; clarity and detail; space and depth. And I hear, even more acutely, what thwarts sound. Shrill treble, muddled bass — for me these are worse than peeves. They offend hearing. They diminish the human sensorium. Earbuds repulse me; laptop speakers grate; a tabletop Bluetooth unit is a kind of vandalism. The word audiophile — etymologically, one who “loves to hear” — has a wine-sipping pretension that I hate, but sometimes an ugly shoe fits. Like similarly suffixed psychopathologies, the term suggests a state of warped dependence, of inbent sublimation. I didn’t set out to be this way, but neither have I ever sought help. My symptoms are apparent, their causes obscure. What, after all, do we love when we love sound? More here . Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now .
4. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Plunges Into Silence”
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Jared Marcel Pollen at Poetry Magazine : Anglophone poets are accustomed to enjoying an essentially uncomplicated and blameless relationship with their language. Every tongue is a tool of atrocity, deceit, ignorance, and oppression, certainly, but for an entire generation of German poets who grew up—and grew into their language—during the Nazi horror, the coinage, so thoroughly debased, must have seemed unusable. Adorno said no poetry after Auschwitz, but he just as well could have said “No more poetry in German.” Of course, we know from Primo Levi that there was poetry in Auschwitz, and that Paul Celan translated Shakespeare ’s sonnets in the ghetto. It was Celan who would later remark that German had to pass through a “thousand darknesses of deathbringing talk” in order to be “enriched” again. Enriched is indeed the right word, for it evokes radioactivity. But it also suggests a siftin
5. Friday Poem
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   On Finding a Bird’s Bones in The Woods Even Einstein, gazing at the slender ribs of the world, examining and praising the cool and tranquil core under the boil and burning of faith and metaphor — even he, unlearning the bag and baggage of notion, must have kept some shread in which to clothe that shape, as we, who cannot escape imagination, swaddle the tiny world of bone in all that we have known of sound and motion. by Lisel Mueller from Poets of the Midwest Heartland Northern Illinois University Press, 1961 Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now .
6. El Niño heat could kill half a million people by February
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Michael Le Page at New Scientist : Around 450,000 people worldwide could die by February as a result of hotter weather caused by the record-breaking El Niño, climate scientists are warning. The estimate is based on how many deaths have resulted from past temperature extremes around the world. “We’re hoping this information is actionable, that decisions can be made to move resources ahead of time,” says Emily Grover-Kopec at the Rhodium Group. This could include assigning health workers to check on the most vulnerable, ensuring people have enough water and providing fans or air conditioning. Most of the deaths in the next six months will be in the southern hemisphere, because the extra heat will coincide with spring and summer there. But El Niño is expected to persist into the northern hemisphere’s spring, so there will be another wave of deaths there after February. “We’re going to see a
7. Azra Raza joins William Shatner and Melanie Shatner Gretsch to explore her quest to transform cancer care
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
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8. AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Kyle Orland at Ars Technica : The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report generated with the help of AI tools, according to a CNN report . That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US Special Operations Command analyst, suggested the Chinese ship was transporting nuclear arms program components through the Middle East, according to “four sources familiar with the episode” cited by CNN. The US military was preparing to intercept and board the ship, with air support, before officials discovered a chatbot used in generating the report had “inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.” One source told CNN the AI-powered fiasco “almost started a war.” More here . Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now .
9. Exit Party – alternate visions of post-crisis America
   Sep 25, 2026 · original
   Nina Allan in The Guardian: I n her second novel, 2009’s The Singer’s Gun, Emily St John Mandel tells the story of Anton Waker, a young man desperate to make a break from his criminal family. His plans are thwarted by his cousin Ari, whose hard-nosed talent for operating outside the law has become a way of life. A decade later in The Glass Hotel , a painting called Swan Dive that hangs in the lobby of the luxury retreat stands as a symbol of escape from a trap that is closing. You will not need to have read either of these earlier novels to enjoy Mandel’s seventh, Exit Party, though their loose intertwining of narrative threads will provide extra pleasure and a sense of homecoming for those who have. It is also interesting to observe Mandel’s evolution from a writer of quirky tales of offbeat protagonists to a novelist whose world-spanning, politically resonant narratives now attract a w
10. An in-body networking system for communication between wearable and implantable therapeutics
    Sep 25, 2026 · original
    From Science: Wearable and implantable bioelectronic devices are now used to routinely assess a person’s health and, for some conditions, provide interventions as needed. An ongoing challenge is the power and device size required for wireless communication between devices. Ghanim et al . designed an electronic circuit that emulates the functionality of a nervous system. The researchers were able to remotely trigger electrical stimulation devices through pulsed signals transmitted through body tissue using less power than protocols such as Bluetooth. Implants could be injected using a syringe, and multiple devices could be controlled by using different signal patterns. More here . Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now .
11. Old Black Joe
    Sep 25, 2026 · original
    by Steve Szilagyi Here’s a song you don’t hear much anymore. Old Black Joe . It used to be really popular. I mean, really popular. Around 100 years ago, Old Black Joe showed up in more songbooks than anything but Star-Spangled Banner . Singers and choirs of all colors warbled it worldwide. If you simmer down and give it a listen, you’ll know why. The melody is powerful. The lyrics address universal themes of death, home and longing. Sung by the right singer, it can raise the spirit and wring the heart. But as good as it is, Old Black Joe is now “in de cold, cold ground”. And it would be stupidly ingenuous to ask, Gee, why? Old Black Joe was written by young, white Stephen Foster and published in 1860. Foster was a middle-class kid from the Pittsburgh area. His great hope was to write sentimental ballads on the order of those made popular by Irish folk melodist Thomas Moore. But after tak
12. Three Takeaways, Number Two: We’ve Screwed The Pooch, Apparently
    Sep 25, 2026 · original
    by Mike Bendzela Debarked white ash logs showing “galleries” caused by the feeding of emerald ash borer larvae. Photo by the author. From preface of Number One last month: Anytime is a good time to take stock of what you think you know, or what you think you have actually learned, but once you have seen two-thirds to three-quarters of your life pass, it would seem rather high time to do so. For all I know, the full measure has actually passed, as I could drop dead tomorrow while digging a grave at my summer job, so I had better hurry with this. [. . .] What would I say if, launched into the firmament and finding myself at Heaven’s Gate, St. Peter said to me, “What have you learned, sinner?” So, a few things I think I actually do know, in descending order of certitude, over the course of three articles: evolution, overshoot, determinism. The human species likely exists in a state of ecolo
13. Trust After Trump. What Comes Next?
    Sep 25, 2026 · original
    by Bill Murray The world of unquestioned American leadership is gone, and the next American president cannot restore the trust of America’s allies. Donald Trump’s critics have spent a decade condemning his unforced squandering of American influence as needless, senseless and lots of other things besides. It’s time to come to grips, move past complaining and get to work building what comes next. The world of ten years ago isn’t coming back, and what comes next won’t depend on trust. Been there, tried that, found that system’s limits. The challenge is to assemble a new, networked alliance based on shared capabilities, that ensures continuity across American administrations. Let’s figure out how. “America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.” — President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. “America’s alliances are our greatest asset, and leading with diplomacy m
14. Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    Alexander Chee at The Morning News : Dear Annie Dillard, My name is Alexander Chee, and I’m a senior English major. I’ve taken Fiction 1 with Phyllis Rose and Advanced Fiction with Kit Reed, and last summer, I studied with Mary Robison and Toby Olson at the Bennington Writers Workshop. The stories here are from a creative writing thesis I’m currently writing with Professor Bill Stowe as my adviser. But the real reason I’m applying to this class is that whenever I tell people I go to Wesleyan, they ask me if I’ve studied with you, and I’d like to have something better to say than no. Thanks for your time and consideration, Alexander Chee In 1989, this was the letter I sent with my application to Annie Dillard’s Literary Nonfiction class at Wesleyan University. I was a last-semester senior, an English major who had failed at being a studio art major and thus became an English major by defa
15. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    From Anthropic : Today, we’re sharing early results from one of our first research programs, in which Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system that is associated with an array of DNA repeats, a pattern reminiscent of CRISPR. Although we don’t yet know its function, the system that Claude discovered has a set of characteristics that have only ever been found together in a handful of other systems, all of which are programmable and perform operations like cutting, copying, and pasting DNA. Beyond CRISPR, which has already transformed science and medicine, several other such systems are now in development as promising tools. The system that Claude found is based on a reverse transcriptase (RT), enzymes that copy RNA into DNA. While this underlying RT, found in a jumbo phage, had been identified in previous studies, Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining f
16. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Yoshua Bengio, and others brief UN Security Council on AI risks
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
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17. Heidegger on What is Worthy of Question (1957)
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
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18. OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    Nick Robins-Early and Dan Milmo in The Guardian : Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic, heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies, addressed the United Nations security council on Wednesday in separate briefings on AI safety. “We have a choice in front of us,” Altman told the council. “AI can either be more like a new renaissance of creativity and discovery, or more like a new industrial revolution of upheaval and disarray.” Altman and Amodei spoke as their companies face increasing scrutiny over the safety of their products. Public alarm over AI has grown in response to warnings from Anthropic researchers earlier this month that the technology could destroy humanity within the decade. Leaders of AI companies, including Altman and Amodei, have since called for a slowdown on advancing AI and more international cooperation on the technology’s safet
19. On A Performance Of Le siège de Corinthe
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    George Loomis at The New Criterion : The Rossini scholar Philip Gossett pronounced Maometto II “one of the greatest serious operas written during the 19th century.” Modern productions were seen in Venice in 2005, Santa Fe in 2012, Naples in 2023, and elsewhere. By contrast, Le siège has remained the province of Pesaro, where it was given in 2017 in a new critical edition by the musicologist Damien Colas, as well as this year. ( L’assedio di Corinto , a bastardized Italian-language mix of elements from Maometto and Le siège ,was performed at La Scala in 1969 and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. It included for the soprano Beverly Sills a spectacular aria inserted in Act III , composed by Rossini’s contemporary Giovanni Pacini.) In Le siège , Maometto II ’s structural audacities were smoothed over by Rossini’s revisions, which were largely intended to bring it in line with French practic
20. On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology
    Sep 24, 2026 · original
    Laura Kolbe at LitHub : I tell my students—the MFA ones who work in wine shops, bookstores, publicity, marketing, nannying; the MD ones in their long apprenticeship at clinics and hospitals—that having a job outside of writing is an incomparable boon to their creative work. I say this and believe it, and not only because believing that one’s life is essentially lucky seems to me to be one of the tricks to happiness. I say it not in the sense of the well-known Flaubertian dictum (“be regular and orderly in your life,” etc.) that bourgeois strictures will lead to liberation in the creative work. I say it because having an intimate, almost sensual relationship to the clock is the derangement. The way that you caress, slap, or kick the intransigence of adamantine time is what we call, on the micro level, your meter. On the macro level, it’s your voice, your poetics. In 1995, Fanny Howe publi

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