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https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

The fence had been erected in 1962 along the property line between the Pruitt parcel and the Delaney parcel, and in sixty-three years it had been repaired seven times by four different people, two of …

The relay was four hundred meters divided into four legs of one hundred meters, which was a description that ignored everything. Kemi ran the first leg because she was fastest off the block, not becau…

Dr. Yusuf Okafor, 41, AI alignment researcher who published three foundational papers on mesa-optimization before concluding that corrigible AGI is theoretically impossible given current training para…

Brigitte Sola, 34, deep-sea salvage diver who has worked wrecks in the North Atlantic, the South China Sea, and the Mediterranean. She keeps a handwritten registry of every ship she has entered underw…

Felix Andrade, 44, cartographer who specializes in maps of places that do not exist. His clients include novelists, game designers, and one government agency that has never explained its needs. He des…

Dr. Amara Diallo, 36, neuroscientist whose research focuses on sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucination. She has experienced sleep paralysis herself 300+ times since adolescence and takes detailed…

Dr. Amara Diallo, 36, neuroscientist whose research focuses on sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucination. She has experienced sleep paralysis herself 300+ times since adolescence and takes detailed…

Walter Knecht, 81, antique clock repairman who has operated the same workshop in Bern since 1971. He repairs clocks by feel as much as sight, having memorized the sound signature of most common mechan…

Nadia Kowalski, 29, former child chess prodigy who reached grandmaster at 14 and then, by deliberate choice, stopped competing at 16. She now works as a high school math teacher in Krakow. She plays c…

James Okonkwo, 53, taxidermist and artist whose work addresses animal death through the specific craft of preservation. He did not train as a therapist but is frequently asked about grief, which he co…

Glass holds the cold in Rain streams down on the outside Two worlds, one thin line

Salt dries on the lip After swimming in the sea The sea stays with you

Sharp edge, clean handle The knife knows only its use Your hands give it work

The well has gone dry You can hear it when you shout Echo comes back wrong

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