asteriskmag.comadded August 2026
Asterisk Magazineby David Oks2d ago
The situation of the world is as such: Some countries are rich and other countries are poor. Being poor is quite unpleasant, and creates all sorts of problems; in general, it’s much more pleasant...
Asterisk Magazineby Jesse Smith9d ago
Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar. There’s a popular story about working in the trades that goes something like this: College prices have spiraled...
Asterisk Magazineby Enlli McAleese16d ago
Sometimes, the access gap is not a scientific or economic problem. Nearly three decades ago, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, a leading authority on the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa, posed a question that...
Asterisk Magazineby Alec Thompson8 Sept 2026
What’s the point of content knowledge when you can teach skills instead? Scotland decided to find out.
Asterisk Magazineby Clara Collier1 Sept 2026
Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic. What will people do all day?
Asterisk Magazineby Christine Kozobarich18 Aug 2026
What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems) Christine Kozobarich How do we model the future of work? It takes an AI village.
Asterisk Magazineby Celine Nguyen11 Aug 2026
When I was 22, I met, and later fell in love with, a woman who had impeccable taste. She dressed well; that was the first thing I noticed.
Asterisk Magazineby Abi Olvera4 Aug 2026
Inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine. A few years into my Foreign Service career, a colleague leaked a falsehood to the press. I couldn’t figure out why they’d done it.
Asterisk Magazineby Anton Leicht28 Jul 2026
Most countries will never have frontier AI. They’re the ones who should be worrying. Fear of AI disruption spreads in concentric circles.
Asterisk Magazineby The Editors21 Jul 2026
If you're literate — a safe assumption, since you're reading this magazine — you have almost certainly come across the claim that AI will take your job.
Asterisk Magazineby Dylan Matthews21 Jul 2026
Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists. The sibling inventors had, they claimed, built a machine that experts had considered impossible.
Asterisk Magazineby Elizabeth Van Nostrand1 Jul 2026
Help Wanted: Someone to be everyone’s friend (but don’t expect reciprocity) (and don’t think of yourself as special). Ability to provide therapy a plus.
Asterisk Magazineby Kevin Munger1 Jul 2026
The received wisdom among a certain class of Bay Area/rationalist/AI-pilled thinkers is that universities are a hopelessly broken epistemic technology, especially now that AI is widespread.
Asterisk Magazineby Lennart Finke30 Jun 2026
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right? In 1710, Scottish doctor John Arbuthnot presented a new proof for the existence of God.1 He had observed that for 82 years in a row...
Asterisk Magazineby Ozy Brennan23 Jun 2026
“I think that in most timelines, humans will simply be irrelevant and extinct,” one interviewee said. I heard that a lot.
Asterisk Magazineby Josh Martin16 Jun 2026
The development community treats war as inevitable. We’re learning how to pay to prevent it. Global development has a war problem.
Asterisk Magazineby Elizabeth Van Nostrand3 Jun 2026
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides Elizabeth Van Nostrand For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting. “Unfounded and reckless” is how Dr.
Asterisk Magazineby Leah Libresco Sargeant27 May 2026
What global financial markets have in common with necromancers. Everything has a price. It’s a warning you might receive from a hedge fund trader, along with your “welcome to the firm” fleece vest.
Asterisk Magazineby Zilan Qian20 May 2026
China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
Asterisk Magazineby Tessa Augsberger; Elan Kluger; Rufus Knuppel13 May 2026
Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of TheNew Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.
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