I’ve had some great meals at Seychelles in Kerameikos. The neighborhood is a bit gritty, but the food is excellent, and the patio seating is very charming if you can get a res.

aka Caleb Williams easily had the best finish of any NFC North QB

This is outside my wheelhouse, but I remember a senior Cambridge School figure commenting that the best part about the book was its bibliography

The closing paragraph from Geuss’ essay on Rawls, “Neither History nor Praxis,” has always been a favorite

Impossible. Bears fans feel nothing until time is expiring in the 4th quarter.

Finally, a historical account of the tumultuous 17th century in England, inclusive of one of the best first lines written by a historian in a while

If you need a “maybe AI isn’t wholly bad” book, this looks at a number of case studies about how researchers are using tech to learn about non-human communication, most of which are pretty mind blowing

A very readable retelling of the the French Revolution that attempts to do a better job accounting for developments in the social history of the period

The most astute, self-aware, and intellectually disciplined attempt to flesh out some of the big questions at the center of the AI debates, with particular care shown to the role that metaphor plays in facilitating and distorting our thinking on the subject

This second one shows what we actually stand to lose by gutting the administrative state. Turns out I had no idea what most gov’t departments actually did, nor did I fully appreciate the negligence that actually occurred in the 2017 handover.