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Received — 2 October 2026 ⏭ Instapaper Daily

Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’

27 September 2026 at 01:00
Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET on September 27, 2026 A crusade against empathy is sweeping through the right. In sometimes apocalyptic terms, prominent conservatives are denouncing that feeble human capacity to understand the feelings of others. This is a trend I’ve written about before, but I’ve been intrigued by the

Received — 1 October 2026 ⏭ Instapaper Daily

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

29 September 2026 at 01:00
Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of the most famous titles of the 1950s and 1960s—Couples, by John Updike; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates—the drama (and martini-soaked melodrama) took place in middle-class living rooms.

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation

28 September 2026 at 01:00
Listen to this post: Log in to listen Three revolutionary products — you know the line. A wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. That was how Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone: Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The

Airline Credit Cards Are Messing Up the Whole Industry

25 September 2026 at 01:00
Guest Essay Sept. 24, 2026 Credit...Illustration by Kristie Bailey/The New York Times Listen · 7:51 min See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google The more months

‘La bola negra’: estética e hipersensible

25 September 2026 at 01:00
Pocas veces he constatado un grado tan alto de expectación no ya entre la cinefilia, sino también en gente de la calle que quiere saber mi opinión sobre una película titulada La bola negra. Viene avalada por premios lujosos en festivales, en la tantas veces falsa suposición de que esos

Losing Beck

24 September 2026 at 01:00
Photo: Perou This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. It was the summer of 2000, and Leigh Limon was working late on the set of Southlander, an independent movie her boyfriend, the musician Beck Hansen, had a supporting role in. The film followed

Are global stock markets heading for a crash?

20 September 2026 at 01:00
At the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world’s financial capitals. Powered by the AI revolution, the US stock market had rallied to a fresh all-time high, as investors bet the multitrillion-dollar investment spree would overshadow the hit from the Iran war. Now the warning lights

How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

19 September 2026 at 01:00
Credit...Hokyoung Kim times investigation Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction. Credit...Hokyoung Kim Listen · 20:57 min Sept. 19, 2026 About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts

A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe

22 September 2026 at 01:00
The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley

Don’t Ask How This War Ends

21 September 2026 at 01:00
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. During the 2003 Iraq War, then–Major General David Petraeus famously said to the journalist and historian Rick Atkinson, “Tell me how this ends.” It is the obvious query to be posed about the conflict with Iran, but it requires a different

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior

17 September 2026 at 01:00
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. Listen · 5:12 min OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times Sept. 16, 2026 Leer en español OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes,

Our A.I. Problem

20 September 2026 at 01:00
Comment Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? September 20, 2026 Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro; Source photograph from Getty A decade ago, when Facebook and Uber were at the height

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