03:11 OpenMythos: A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature (github.com)
00:53 Three people are dead after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. Here’s what to know about the disease, including how it spreads and the dangers it presents. (on.wsj.com)
00:02 The Roomba inventor’s next big thing? A cute little four-legged robot, designed to form an emotional bond with its owner. Christopher @Mims reveals the Familiar (on.wsj.com)
05-04 I spent my tech career working toward a promotion I never got. I learned through layoffs how to create my own opportunities. (www.businessinsider.com)
02:22 Marilyn Monroe Made Being Photographed Into an Art - Hollywood was full of beauties. What Monroe had was something rarer: the ability to project. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 “While My Daughter Is in Surgery I Think About a Night in a Hotel in Florence,” by Ellen Bass - “She’d bought a black leather jacket from a stall on the Ponte Vecchio.” (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory - Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land - Frederic Edwin Church sold a nation on its own mythology. That was his making—and his unmaking. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 In HBO’s “The Dark Wizard,” Dean Potter Climbs On - The BASE jumper died in a tragic accident in 2015, the day before he was to accept an award for performance art. A new docuseries explores his life and legacy. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again - Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, macho gold-mining reality shows, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for prospecting not seen since 1849. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump - The former President remains one of the most popular politicians in the country. What are his obligations to it? (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Colbert’s Trumpet Player on Life After Late Night - Since 2015, Jon Lampley has played in the house band of “The Late Show,” which CBS unceremoniously cancelled. As the final episode looms, he takes a look back. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations - Donald Trump’s aversion to admitting fault suggests that we will not likely see events that grapple with the nuanced nature of the nation’s history this July 4th. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Actually Make Money? - As Elon Musk sues his former OpenAI partners, A.I. companies are expanding rapidly, but profits are still scarce. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits? - Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal - Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel - In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 On the High Line, Buddha Is the New Giant Pigeon - After the bird sculpture flew the Chelsea coop, the curator Cecilia Alemani oversaw the installation of a new work—a sacred sandstone colossus, based on one destroyed by the Taliban. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Is the Twenty-fifth Amendment Really an Option? - After J.F.K.’s assassination, a neophyte lawyer named John Feerick was summoned to Washington to draft the provision. Now everyone wants him to weigh in on booting Trump from office. (www.newyorker.com)
05-04 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Sarah Stillman’s piece about the detention of migrant children, Patrick Radden Keefe’s investigation into car-insurance fraud in New Orleans, and Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s profile of Sam Altman. (www.newyorker.com)