Henry Stanley

Les rois fainéants, E.

Joseph Wright of Derby, The Alchymist Discovering Phosphorus (1771) Previously I talked about how bad alcohol is as a drug.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (1818) As a software engineer, I’m at the pointy end of watching AI automate me out of a job (perhaps just behind mathematicians, who are seeing theorems which have been unsolved for hundreds of years…

The Slaughtered Ox, Rembrandt (1655) More than once, an otherwise smart person has attempted to untie the Gordian knot that is the way we treat animals, and themselves come undone in the process.

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, The Reverse of a Framed Painting (1670) Anyone who’s not been living under a rock knows that we’re in full peptide mania.

Willem van Mieris, Der Apotheker People are surprised that prescription drugs aren’t illegal and you can just buy them.

Waterhouse, The Danaides (1903) James Clear talks about changing your identity as a way to change your habits.

Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) Dylan Matthews at Vox recently lamented how he’d gotten it so very wrong about AI.

Woman at a Window, Caspar David Friedrich (1822) Oh, we know, both of us, that it shouldn’t matter, that there’s more to life than pairing off, that the media is to blame, blah blah blah.

Prometheus Unbound, Carl Bloch (1864) Fable was released from its government-imposed shackles a couple of days ago.11.