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Phil Levin's avatar

Honestly, I didn’t think Edge Esmeralda would work.

How do you create a temporary “pop-up village” in an existing town and get people to relocate for a month?

… but I was very wrong. 1300 people came and many stayed the full month. It was a smashing success.

wrote up the story about how it happened and what they plan to change for this y…

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Barry Greene Jr.'s avatar

this. all of this. the #1 reason I am switching to a dumbphone this year is to force through friction that we must call each other. Overcoming the fear that I’ll be disturbing them, instead hoping that they understand that “you crossed my mind” or “I was thinking about you.”

James Aldrete's avatar

From poinsettia and lily Christians, to Christian nationalists, to those who save their Sundays for mimosas... we look at the changing role faith plays in the lives of US Hispanics in El Buche's latest slow take.

Border crossings on the rise! It’s Semana Santa after all.

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The Death of Personal Style and Where has Having Taste Gone?
David Williams's avatar

“When you solve intelligence, the bottleneck for effective change doesn’t disappear; it moves somewhere else…”

The recently published “AI 2027” report ignores the unassailable friction between superintelligence and revolution. When you solve intelligence, the bottleneck for effective change doesn't disappear; it moves somewhere else, and frictions that were less important before become significant.

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David Roberts's avatar

Texas is [clears throat] a land of contradictions. On one hand, its relatively free electricity market has produced a nation-leading renewables boom. On the other hand, its conservative legislators remain ideologically committed to fossil fuels. I dig in with

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What in tarnation is going on in Texas?
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