Month: May 2022
May 19, 2022
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Should we stop having casual sex?
“In her new book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation , author and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba argues that consent is not enough — that love should be the…”
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Big Tech Is Pouring Nearly $1 Billion Into Carbon Removal
“The world’s biggest tech companies are getting serious about carbon removal, the still-nascent technology wherein humanity can pull heat-trapping carbon dioxide…”
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Preparing For An Unpredictable World
“Given the state of the world, should the United States increase, maintain, or cut military spending? Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith have debated that question,…”
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“I n her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys , Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during…”
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So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
“Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially severe viral illness…”
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Ending Roe v Wade is just the beginning | Thomas Zimmer
“T he supreme court is set to overturn Roe v Wade, this much has been clear since a draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked earlier this month.…”
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“Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter’s board : I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I…”
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Think Bigger About Remote Work
“I’ve written — and I still believe — that the rise of remote work triggered by the Covid pandemic will end up changing the way we produce things in the modern…”
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How Pupil Size Can Reveal What Is—Or Isn’t—Happening in Your Mind
“One evening in 1960, the psychologist Eckhard Hess was at home, flipping through a book of “strikingly beautiful animal photographs.” His wife commented that…”
May 18, 2022
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We Don’t Need Corporate Social Media
“Elon Musk is just about the last person on earth (or Mars) you’d want in charge of communities, online or otherwise. He shares transphobic and anti-Semitic…”
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Analysis | Discussing the gaps in ’2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza
“Not many people spend time watching hearings hosted by state legislative committees, for obvious reasons. In March, though, the Wisconsin State Assembly’s…”
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Apple’s mixed reality headset project challenges explained
“Rendering by Antonia De Rosa Since beginning its efforts in 2015, Apple’s work on a mixed reality headset has been hit with a range of challenges that have…”
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How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts
“On the morning of April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal to…”
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Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
“Updated at 3:21 p.m. ET on December 9, 2021. Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on…”
May 17, 2022
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Prison, lawsuits and a glovebox of fake cash: the film the KLF didn’t want you to see
“I n 2009 my long suffering producer Ian Neil sent me a text: “You should really make a film about the KLF .” This enigmatic and brilliant band were a mainstay…”
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The Ed Sheeran problem, or, how the record industry got what it asked for
“A dog that caught the bus wheel. You might have seen Ed Sheeran’s triumphant statement about his victory in a copyright lawsuit that alleged he’d copied…”
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“I find office parks fascinating and creepy, and inherently off-putting; I feel the same about highways. Both of them go hand in hand as specific fabulations of…”
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‘I Figured We Were All In’: Ben Stiller on That Crazy ‘Severance’ Season 1 Ending
“This post contains spoilers for the finale of Season One of Severance , which is streaming now on Apple TV+. The notes I took on my first viewing of the…”
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“Do you read this newsletter often? Do you appreciate its presence in your inbox? Do you value the labor that goes into it? Consider subscribing , because…”
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Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo
“On Saturday, a gunman murdered ten people and wounded three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The suspect, who is eighteen, used a weapon painted…”
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Ask an Art Adviser: Is Art a Bubble? Are NFTs Art?
“Lisa Schiff weighs in on the state of the global art market — and what she learned from advising Leonardo DiCaprio. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…”
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House Panel Opens Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings
“An intelligence subcommittee will hear testimony from two Pentagon officials on observations by military pilots and others. Send any friend a story As a…”
May 15, 2022
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Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?
“A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did emerge from the sea, we aren’t doing just fine. Send any friend a story As a…”
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Opinion | The Real Twitter Is Not for Sale
“Tressie McMillan Cottom The Real Twitter Is Not for Sale May 3, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Aaron M Sprecher/EPA, via Shutterstock Send any friend a story As a…”
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The ‘Staircase’ Filmmakers Feel ‘Betrayed’ by HBO Max’s Adaptation
“What separates Jean-Xavier de Lestrade ’s The Staircase from other crime documentaries is its astonishing access. While chronicling the defense strategy of…”
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“Whatever else you want to say about Elon Musk, there is one undeniable fact in his favor: he is the first person to become the richest person in the world by…”
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The War in Ukraine Calls for a Reset of Biden’s Foreign Policy
““The invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift on the scale of 9/11,” British Foreign Minister Liz Truss told an audience in Washington on March 10. “How we…”
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Opinion | Americans are stuck in an age of scarcity, and they don’t like it
“Why are Americans so gloomy about the economy? Jobs are plentiful and unemployment is back at pre-pandemic lows , yet sentiment is in the dumps . The obvious…”
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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords – Krebs on Security
“Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires…”
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Nine Worrying Signs About the Economy
“The American economy isn’t looking great right now. U.S. GDP shrank last quarter, despite a hearty showing from American consumers. Inflation is high; markets…”