Market and Antimarket, Perplexing Plots and The American Mirage

Can language models predict the next twist in a story?

Recently on the blog:

• Election analytics positions available at the New York Times

• Market and antimarket: The story of the Berkeley Electronic Press

• “Perplexing Plots”: Crime fiction, modernism, and the air of rigor

• “What happened in 2024”

• Eunji Kim’s book, “The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy”

• “Can language models predict the next twist in a story?”

• If only Arxiv required researchers to sign at the top rather than the bottom of the page, none of this would’ve happened.

• Graduation Days: A tale of two campuses

• Why were schools so slow to return to in-person instruction?

• The Lives They’re Living and this new biography of Elaine May