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Over the Quantum Cliff:
How will we live once quantum computers spill all our secrets?
from me & @jesgilbert.bsky.social in the new online magazine Broadcast from @pioneerwork.bsky.social. No paywall.
Nels Cline @leeranaldo.bsky.social Jimmy RIP "70 Is The New 70" at @pioneerwork.bsky.social Feb 25, 2026 Pt. 4 Denouement
"If I had to fill out an application and it asked me what my job description was, I’d say my job is to play music that allows people to find more of themselves."
Russell E. L. Butler in conversation with Jeff Mills for @pioneerwork.bsky.social:
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Tonight we'll launch A WORLD APPEARS by
@michaelpollan.bsky.social with a live conversation between Pollan and @jannalevinastro.bsky.social. Tickets are sold out, but paid subscribers can join the livestream on Substack. Subscribe now for access! pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/subscribe
We think you’ll love Broadcast—the annual print mag from @pioneerwork.bsky.social—so we’re including a complimentary issue with all Believer subscriptions through the end of the month. See details here: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
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Roses wilt. Great magazines don’t. This February, we’re teaming up with our beloveds at @mcsweeneys.net for a special bundle. Subscribe to @thebeliever.net and get a free issue of Broadcast for one low price. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
Physics says all things move toward entropy. Yet the cosmos teems with order—life, language, art. In Time’s Second Arrow from @wwnorton.com, Michael Wong (@miquai.bsky.social) & Robert Hazen ask: What if there’s a second arrow of time? pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ti...
Is death and decay our only option? In Time’s Second Arrow—out now from @wwnorton.com—Michael Wong (@miquai.bsky.social) and Robert Hazen overturn 150 years of established science to propose a new vision of our universe. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ti...
The genome isn't a blueprint. But what is it?
I originally imagined this as a reported feature on metaphors of the genome, but it ended up being an essay.
And at the end I share the metaphor I personally ended up landing on. If you want to tell me why it is wrong, you'll need to read the story ;)🧪
“If a single animal can have several different genomes at once, which one is the blueprint? This may not even be the right question to ask...” Intriguing jumping-off point for a superb piece on why our favourite metaphors fail to capture biology; @elisecutts.bsky.social in @pioneerwork.bsky.social
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Through the rest of February, all subscriptions to The Believer include the latest issue of @pioneerwork.bsky.social, featuring Miranda July, Catherine Lacey, Marcus J. Moore, Chris Kraus, and more. Get yours here: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
Renew your commitment to independent literary journalism. This month only, sign up for a year of The Believer and get the latest issue of @pioneerwork.bsky.social Broadcast absolutely free. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
Life isn’t constructed along pre-drawn plans. It grows. For PW Broadcast, @elisecutts.bsky.social writes on the myth of the genetic blueprint. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge...
Finally, a relationship that won’t break your heart: This February, we’re teaming up with our beloveds at @thebeliever.net for a special Valentine’s bundle. Get a year of The Believer and a free issue of Broadcast for one low price. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
“Chop off a Hydra’s head, and you’ll have two new animals instead of one dead one.” @elisecutts.bsky.social on immortal freshwater polyps, and what they reveal about where complexity comes from. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge...
Confirming widespread rumors, we’re going public with our Valentine’s dalliance with @pioneerwork.bsky.social—and yes, there’s a lovable bundle involved. Get a year of The Believer plus a free issue of Broadcast for one low price, now through February.
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On 2/19, we’ll be celebrating @dchiasso.bsky.social's urgent new ode to Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn, and Burlington with the help of @nybooks.com, not to mention VT legends Jamaica Kincaid and Bread and Puppet Theater. pioneerworks.org/programs/ber...
Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso.bsky.social) on the Brooklyn boyhood of @sanders.senate.gov and the Manhattan storefront that first drew him to the Green Mountains. An exclusive excerpt from BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON, out now from @aaknopf.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/da...
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Sky Hopinka on coyote legends, family memories, and the history that unites them: “I was always interested in trying to figure out the broader story of native people as I tried to figure myself out, and vice versa.” @aaknopf.bsky.social youtu.be/Ymk1J3-TlpU
What day isn’t a headlock? In celebration of the U.S. release of
POOR by Caleb Femi, PW Broadcast is proud to share some poems from the book. @fsgbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/po...
What is consciousness, who has it, and why? Join us and @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social for the launch of @michaelpollan.bsky.social's A WORLD APPEARS on February 24—featuring a conversation with Pollan and @jannalevinastro.bsky.social on nature’s greatest mysteries. pioneerworks.org/programs/mic...
Some poems on lost friends, trap legends, and Peckham boyhood from Caleb Femi's POOR, out now in the U.S. thanks to @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/po...
"We have already ceded our rockets and space stations to men with messiah complexes—and our wombs may be next."
Darshana Narayanan for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...
Humanity has entered a new era of space exploration. This time, we don’t just want to visit, we want to stay. In Broadcast’s latest print issue, Darshana Narayanan confronts the future of our species—and how off-Earth conditions would reshape evolution itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...
Elon Musk dreams of Mars. Jeff Bezos imagines space-station cities. But before we colonize the great beyond, we need to ask: Can pregnancies even develop without Earth’s gravity? And if so, how might those unique conditions change us? pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...
Do only the dead know Brooklyn? Broadcast co-editor-in-chief Joshua Jelly-Schapiro writes on the ghosts of Pioneer Works past, and the cosmic, Caribbean history of Red Hook. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/on...
The historic denizens of Red Hook, Brooklyn, have included mobsters, smugglers, and others good at keeping secrets. But the ghosts of Pioneer Works have stories to tell, if you know where to dig. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/on...
"The freeways of Los Angeles lace the city together, and driving over (and under) some of the giant interchanges can feel almost like a divine hallucination. The engineering is so extreme that the typical response is one of marvel: How the fuck could anyone build anything so absurd?"
