Heroes And Life Drawing

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The End Of The Age Of Heroes

Noah Smith | Noahpinion | 4th August 2026

A new AI model has solved major problems in mathematics, breakthroughs that have stunned the scientific community. Is this the dawn of a golden age or the end of human mathematics? The scientific enterprise was always collective. “AI is really a new world-mind — a technology that takes the accumulated findings of individual humans and integrates them into a general picture of the world” (3,600 words)

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Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls

Alysia Abbott | Oldster | 3rd August 2026

54-year-old joins life drawing sessions and eventually emboldens herself to pose as a model. “During my time on stage I was reduced to my bare naked figure, but that body, while mine, also felt not mine as I posed and turned in service to the needs of the room. After two and a half hours of quick poses and then long poses, my back and limbs ached. I was thirsty and hungry. But I did it” (NSFW — nude art) (3,000 words)

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