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LLMs are giving us a billion ripoffs of what we already are at a moment when we yearn for something new.

Jorge Luis Borges’ 1940 short story mirrors the intrusiveness of identity politics.

The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent…

A look at one of the more mysterious characters in Zelda.

By Augusto Morel Buenos Aires, Aug 2 (EFE).- Photographs, books, a wide variety of objects and an episode of “The Simpsons” are part of an exhibition at the Borges Cultural Center celebrating “Ficciones,” the 1944 collection of short stories that vaulted Jorge Luis Borges to international prominence. Entering the center, inside a building in the …

Maybe one day journalism could be replaced with an immense surveillance state with a GPT-4 plug-in. Why would we want that?

In “Seduced by Story,” the literary critic Peter Brooks argues that a “mindless valorization of storytelling” has crept into every aspect of public discourse, from politics to cookie packages, with alarming results.

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she’bikhtav, what was forbidden to write down, the Torah  she’ba’al peh, the commentary on both the tablets Moses broke, now studied on the printed daily daf. It was the norm once for us Jews to have no books, no written commentary in them recorded, archived instead in brains of memorious Jews commanded to remember oral commentary as they do the Sabbath. They adored it, adding supercommentaries to understand it. We study Torah written texts called by a name implying they’re not written...