On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering

Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’

President Donald Trump led tributes to Graham, a leading Republican voice on defense and foreign policy, describing him as a “true American Patriot.”

Death of a Software Developer

The software developer is a type of guy, and his decline will be cultural as well as economic

Death of a Software Developer

The software developer is a type of guy, and his decline will be cultural as well as economic

Death of a Software Developer

The software developer is a type of guy, and his decline will be cultural as well as economic

Kevin Keegan dies at 75 after cancer diagnosis

Former Liverpool, Newcastle United and England striker Kevin Keegan has died aged 75 after being diagnosed with cancer.

The Death of Software Development

The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class

Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version.The good newsWe have enough evidence now to conclude…— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) August 27, 2026

US man dies by suicide after developing emotional bond with AI chatbot: 'I am scared to die'

Florida man suicide after weeks with Google Gemini chatbot sparks wrongful death lawsuit, raising urgent questions over AI safety and mental health safeguards.

Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad

Gad Saad is a staple of the anti-woke dark web. But his new book, Suicidal Empathy, is proof that the supposedly “intellectual” wing of the New Right is running on fumes.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Twitter / X

The reality is that there are no heroes here. No one cared about the truth or about Jason Arday’s life, including, most sadly, Jason Arday himself.A- Many things could be, and are, true at the same time. Arday clearly was a troubled man. You can see it in his photos and hear it… pic.twitter.com/T8k3lnJZeY— Hussein Aboubakr Mansour (@HusseinAboubak) August 20, 2026

LLMDeathCount.com

Large Language Models like ChatGPT have led people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corporations that are responsible.

Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness

Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies – First of the Month

Spielberg lets the screen go black for about five seconds. The communal experience of film-going then becomes a shared nightmare. With the screen unlit, the emergency lights in the theater are the only source of illumination. If you jump (as I did), you fear for a moment that the movie has stopped—the reel fallen off its plate, the fantasy interrupted by unfunny, drop-dead reality. “Are we still alive?” whispered by Farrier’s daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is an inquiry that invokes our own doubts about our safety, our capacity to dream, our possible awakening to dire reality. It recalls how many people felt after 9/11. Are we dreaming? Are we still alive? Bringing everyday experience and existential contemplation together so forcefully, Spielberg joins the ranks of the most audacious avant-garde filmmakers: He turns the popcorn movie experience into a consideration of the abyss.