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August 2025 News

August 2025 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO

August 2025’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, July 2025 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.

Writings

  • InkHaven: a 1-month Nov 2025 blogging bootcamp at Lighthaven, Berkeley (“Get writing feedback from Scott Alexander, Scott Aaronson, & Gwern. Inkhaven Residency open for applications. A residency for ~30 people to grow into great writers”)

Books

Fiction:

  • Buddha volume 1, Osamu Tezuka (despite being a critical darling, I was deeply unsatisfied by his peculiar revisions of traditional Buddha hagiographies, childish writing and levity and self-indulgence in gimmicks like (stupid and trivial) fourth-wall-breaking, and Disneyfied art. It may be unfair to judge a 14-volume series by volume 1, but I did not finish it with any interest in continuing.)

Film/TV

Live-action:

Animated: