No. 1: 2023.08.07

Aristotle/Marx/Plato/Milton/Descartes/Pascal/Virgil/Dante/Bhagavad Gita/Thoreau

Here's some things people have been writing:

Aristotle and Marx nudged Leah Hunt-Hendrix, an oil heiress, toward funding groups that want to end fossil fuels. New Yorker

The Bhagavad Gita makes a cameo in Oppenheimer, and so people are talking about it. New York Times

Shakespeare’s sonnets are being compared against ones written by ChatGPT by students at the University of Utah. The professor thinks the AI-ones are “usefully bad”. Atlantic

Plato, seen by most as loathing tyranny, is seen as its defender by internet personality “Bronze Age Pervert”. A reference to Milton and a “sense of injured merit” follows. Atlantic

Descartes and Pascal show up, as you might guess, in an article on free will. Atlantic

Virgil and Dante are analogous to Ezra Pound Emmet Till’s dad in Roger Reeve’s “Best Barbarian”. New York Times

Thoreau’s disdain for city life is finding an audience in China. New Yorker