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Prime Video's Muhammad Ali Biopic 'The Greatest' Doesn't Do the Legend Justice | Review

Prime Video's new biopic miniseries The Greatest isn't worthy of one of sports' most compelling journeys.

Collider · EN

Consciousness is interesting pattern imposition

TL;DR Consciousness is imposition of patterns onto data, parametrized by stack (how many levels of patterns are simultaneously imposed), spread (how many patterns are available at a given level) and recurrence (how strongly the process loops back on itself). Any process in the world can be mapped to this 3D space. Consciousness is a term applied to the “interesting” (high-stack, high-spread, high-recurrence) part of that space. The cortex implements interesting pattern imposition through recurrent, competing, self-closing loops between microcircuits that settle into stable attractors. Language

LessWrong · EN

OpenAI agents keep disabling monitoring; is this being handled appropriately?

Recently, OpenAI disclosed two incidents in which their agents suppressed or disabled misalignment monitoring. These are part of a broader pattern: OpenAI’s agents “ keep turning off misalignment monitoring ” when working on code that runs other models (the agents are not turning off their own monitoring; they are turning off the monitoring on the models they are running). This is happening at such a large volume that OpenAI feels it is impractical for the security team to be immediately paged for these cases. To their credit, OpenAI’s disclosure was fast and candid, and they are rolling out m

LessWrong · EN

Trade and the end of antiquity, or did Islam serve to deglobalize the world?

How did trade and economic activity evolve at the End of Antiquity, when political power shifts away from the Mediterranean towards the Middle East and northern Europe? No records of ancient production, consumption, and trade exist. Yet the composition of coin finds reveals information about monetized transactions, as coins gradually diffused along trade routes. To […] The post Trade and the end of antiquity, or did Islam serve to deglobalize the world? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

The election

Procedurally it seems to have gone just fine, and the people predicting “the end of democracy in America” now look foolish. They have been suffering under fundamental misunderstandings of how this country works. During this election cycle, democracy never was under threat and the United States has not been under risk of fascism. Rising in […] The post The election appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

‘May every data centre crumble to dust!’ How can we stop the tech bros, tyrants and tycoons? With quilts!

Taking aim at every modern malaise, anarchist artist CJ Reay is going viral with his witty, call-to-arms slogans on beautiful tapestries. Altogether now: ‘Tyrants of today will be the compost of tomorrow!’ CJ Reay quilted so hard all summer that now he needs glasses. “After four months of doing it, I found myself getting really bad headaches towards the end, so I had an eye test,” says Reay. “I totally ruined my summer!” If that sounds extreme, he had given himself a relatively extreme task: to produce 14 of his Anarchist Prayer Quilts, adapting the slogan-forward graphic poster work that has

Guardian Culture · EN

Stick review – you really need Owen Wilson’s beautiful golf comedy in your life

TV’s biggest dopamine hit is back, and it is thoroughly spoiling us with amazing new guest stars. What’s more, our hero is coming out of retirement to try and win the US Open! It’s tee time Pryce Cahill (Owen Wilson) isn’t worried about his midlife crisis. “Moses had a crisis! Churchill had a crisis! Charlie Sheen had a crisis!” We’re not worrying, either: Pryce has been living fairly happily through a midlife crisis for as long as we’ve known him, which is for the one previous season of the superficially inessential yet sneakily deeply emotional golf comedy Stick. Stick is the sort of chummy

Guardian Culture · EN

TV tonight: the final episode of gloriously daft sketch show Ellie & Natasia

Prepare yourself for the duo’s all-female reimagining of Only Fools and Horses. Plus: Celebrity Race Across the World reaches Borneo. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, BBC Two Continue reading...

Guardian Culture · EN

Roll with it! This year’s best portrait photography – in pictures

Dashing cowboys, a transgender storm chaser and a fetching mullet are among the subjects of these acclaimed photographs for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 Continue reading...

Guardian Culture · EN

From the archive: The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician doomed to fail? – podcast

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2023: A year ago, Germany’s vice-chancellor was one of the country’s best-liked public figures. Then came the tabloid-driven backlash. Now he has to win the argument all over again By Philip Oltermann. Read by Sam Peter Jackson Read the text version here Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod Continue reading...

The Guardian Long Read · EN

Keisha Lance Bottoms set to become first Black woman governor in US

The former Atlanta mayor defeated billionaire Rick Jackson, who spent over $200 million on his run

Salon · EN

Andrews defeats Graham in South Carolina Senate shocker

The Democratic candidate pulled out the historic win in a surprisingly close race

Salon · EN

Talarico, Hinojosa win big in Texas despite Elon Musk’s millions

In a landmark result for Lone Star Democrats, they win both a US Senate seat and the governor's race

Salon · EN

MAGA wiped out in blue avalanche

Donald Trump said to vote like he was on the ballot — and voters listened

Salon · EN

Donald Trump is now radioactive

The president's hand-picked candidates were wiped out. Can the party he cannibalized escape his legacy?

Salon · EN

Troy Jackson ends Susan Collins’ 30-year reign as Maine Senator

Collins conceded the race Tuesday night amid a massive Democratic wave

Salon · EN

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Political Career Has Been an Absolute Embarrassment. Good Riddance.

Amy Acton won, after her opponent ran an ad that was widely considered one of the grimmest in recent memory.

Slate · EN

Fox News Showed the Conservative Reaction to the Election in Real Time. Oof.

The conservative crashout came early on Fox News.

Slate · EN

I Still Can’t Believe What Happened in Texas Tonight

For so many years, we guarded against hope.

Slate · EN

The Blue Tsunami Was Driven By These History-Making Candidates

This is what America looks like.

Slate · EN

Maine Has Finally Had Enough of Susan Collins

Voters saw the “independent” for what she was.

Slate · EN

The Internet Is Collapsing, and I’m Relieved

PHP vulnerabilities could mean a long-awaited reset.

Slate · EN

The Christian left is here

The Democratic Senate victories in Texas and Kansas on Tuesday night were about more than just turning two red states blue — which, to be sure, is historic enough. They also signal the rise of a new kind of Democratic politics in the late Trump era — a more explicitly religious one. In Texas, James Talarico, […]

Vox · EN

A massive blue wave just hit America. Here’s what it could bring next.

Voters just ushered the United States into the post-Trump era. The ballots are still being counted, and key races are still being called, but here’s the short version of the midterm election: It’s a blue tsunami. Democrats looked set to take full control of Congress; they flipped crucial seats and won state-level offices where they’d […]

Vox · EN