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"ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."

I interviewed J. Hoberman for my Old New substack about his dazzling new book Everything is Now. We talk about Jack Smith, free jazz, the suddenly struggling Mets, and how his grandfather was a lawyer for the Coney Island freak show. Link in reply.

Yet another reason why Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century deserves many revisits. Rarely cited as a discussion of tariffs, the book has an original angle on why and how American tariffs worked in the past; and would allow us to develop a unique (and unlike mainstream ones, 1/

In one page of Melenchon’s book we find Goethe, Valmy, Turgot, Louis XVI and Necker. The French really are built different.

"The movies are just not as important as they used to be." The legendary J. Hoberman talks with Mark Asch about 1960s New York, protests, alternative press, and #Sinners ahead of an Anthology Film Archives series celebrating his essential new book: thefilmstage.com/j-hoberman-on-…

for The Film Stage 📽 i talked to J Hoberman about his recent protest activity, a changing New York City, the alternative press, SINNERS, the who-was-president-when-the-movie-came-out school of criticism, and his essential new book EVERYTHING IS NOW thefilmstage.com/j-hoberman-on-…

What are you reading this weekend?

Palestine Action have done more than anyone in Britain to show solidarity with Palestinians, and to confront “our” government’s complicity in the genocide. Now’s the time for everyone to show unflinching solidarity with Palestine Action. I stand with them. bbc.com/news/articles/…

We represent every individual who opposes the Israeli war machine. We represent every person that believes Palestinians are worth more than the tools used to kill them. We represent every person who stands for Palestinian liberation. If they want to ban us, they ban us all.

Everything Is Now: A Conversation with J. Hoberman | Screen Slate screenslate.com/articles/every…

"The infrastructure of comradeship, of friendship—that was Joshua... infrastructure can also be a gift from the past to present, as it would be in communism, a materialized ancestry. He is still present, then, as long as he is remembered and read.” versobooks.com/blogs/news/for…

Christoph Schuringa writes on how a supposedly apolitical philosophy has been shaped by the social and the political versobooks.com/blogs/news/on-…

Not sure yet but probably one of these

Jasper Bernes, The Future of Revolution

This really is as good as everyone says it is…

Mahmoud Khalil is finally free 104 days after being abducted by ICE from his home in New York. The first thing he will do, he says, is “hug his wife and child,” whose birth he was forced to miss from behind bars.

Join Aaron Bastani and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the French Left, for a discussion of citizen’s revolution and strategies for mobilising the radical left to transform the capitalist system. Plus, Ash Sarkar and Faiza Shaheen will discuss how to build a stronger left in the UK.

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