Vol. II · No. 314
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026
174 writers in the library
a reading room for the unhurried web
Tech · Long read

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls,...

  1. Finance

    The start-up challenge in Europe

    Klement on Investing Nov 10
  2. Economics

    *Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets*

    Marginal Revolution Nov 10
  3. Culture

    Anthropologists love to debate if their field is insufficiently reflexive, too reflexive, too relativistic, or too subservient to dominant norms. Enough!

    Arts & Letters Daily Nov 10
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The Reading Room

Culture · Feature

Crimson Star

Watch the Sun’s atmosphere pulse and flow in extreme UV. Images are from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and “conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed” by Seán Doran, whose video work is always incredible. It would be great to see this in IMAX or some other large screen format, lik...

From the Stacks

Five rediscoveries from the back issues, rotated by the day

Read slowly. There is no hurry.

  1. I. History

    The future of Britain in 7 maps

    Cosmographia Oct 26
  2. II. Philosophy

    Unpopular Effective Altruist Views Are Simply Correct

    Bentham's Bulldog Oct 26
  3. III. Psychology

    Pseudobeliefs

    Everything is Bullshit Oct 26
  4. IV. Science

    Off-grid data centers have 60-80% higher emissions

    The Climate Brink Oct 26
  5. V. Tech

    GPT-6.1 Terra

    Simon Willison Oct 26
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