Month: August 2022
August 30, 2022
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Dirt: Early Majority / Mind Maps
“Dirt is a daily email about entertainment. Dirt partners with Early Majority on a badge for offline adventures. Terry Nguyen , Dirt’s senior staff writer, digs…”
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Counting the Population Has Always Been Political
“Credit…. DEMOCRACY’S DATA: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them By Dan Bouk Illustrated. 384 pages. MCD. $30. The U.S. census has…”
August 29, 2022
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“Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. See More → In the early 2000s—either 2002 or 2003, he can’t precisely…”
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Longtermism: The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life?
“If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history. March 15, 2022 The point of this text is not to predict how…”
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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay? – The Millions
“How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay? Essays August 24, 2022 | 15 books mentioned 22 min read Related Books: A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are…”
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Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital
“KYIV, Ukraine — A hail of shrapnel from kamikaze drones ripped through the tent where off-duty Ukrainian border guards were sleeping near a crossing with…”
August 27, 2022
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Long Covid Sufferers Have Waited Too Long for Help
“Credit…K. L. Ricks When the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 ended, misery continued . Many who survived became enervated and depressed. They developed tremors…”
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Rocket ships and tractors — Benedict Evans
“”Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty…”
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AI Creating ‘Art’ Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
“It’s August 2022, and by now you’ve no doubt read (or more likely seen) something about AI art by now. Whether it’s random jokes made for Twitter or paintings…”
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Opening the Pandora’s Box of AI Art – Waxy.org
“Last month, I finally got access to OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 and immediately started exploring the text-to-image AI’s potential for creative shitposting, generating…”
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Birthing Predictions of Premature Death
“When I was giving birth to my oldest son, the attending told me it would feel like an elephant was stepping on my chest. They made the C-section incision right…”
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Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be
“Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times One day Nicholas Epley was commuting by train to his office at the University of Chicago. As a behavioral…”
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A New Test for an Old Theory About Dreams
“When Massimo Scanziani’s daughter was young, he’d often see her eyes twitching beneath her eyelids while she was sleeping. These rapid eye movements (or REMs)…”
August 24, 2022
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SARS-CoV-2 has evolved an incubation time more like seasonal coronaviruses
“Enlarge Getty | picture alliance The incubation period for COVID-19—the time between when SARS-CoV-2 first infects a person and when resulting COVID-19 symptoms…”
August 23, 2022
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“I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the…”
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Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them
“Charlie Chasen and Michael Malone, Atlanta, 2014. Charlie Chasen and Michael Malone met in Atlanta in 1997, when Mr. Malone served as a guest singer in Mr.…”
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“Terry Nguyen , Dirt’s staff senior writer, on the questionable purpose of reenacting reality. Reality is a nesting doll of possibilities in HBO’s The Rehearsal…”
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Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’
“Twitter executives deceived federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its defenses against hackers,…”
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Why R U Mad at the Name Kayleigh?
“This article originally appeared in Brooding , a newsletter delivering deep thoughts on modern family life. Sign up here . Illustration: Hannah Buckman Names,…”
August 22, 2022
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Korean brands energize to realize big EV plans
“The Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands have startled the industry with their rapid rollout of future electric vehicle strategies. A swath of EVs, many designed on…”
August 21, 2022
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The New Moral Mathematics – Boston Review
“What We Owe the Future William MacAskill Basic Books, $32 (cloth) “Space is big,” wrote Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979). “You just…”
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Vince Gilligan Wants to Write a Good Guy
“It takes a decent man to create a cruel world. It’s difficult to imagine the fifty-five-year-old Vince Gilligan—soft-spoken, gracious, and exceedingly…”
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I Grew Up Believing “The Satanic Verses” Was Dangerous. Here’s Why That Matters.
“I must have been 13, or maybe 14, when I borrowed Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses from my local library. I had no real interest in reading it, and, at north…”
August 19, 2022
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“You’ve seen the gray flooring. You know its lifeless hue even if you haven’t been house hunting recently. The stuff is in old-house-rehab shows on HGTV, in the…”
August 18, 2022
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Why Does Thinking Hard Make Me So Tired? Scientists May Have an Answer
“In 1998, researchers baked chocolate chip cookies in order to fill a laboratory with the aroma of freshly made treats. Then, they brought people into the lab,…”
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“Kevin Cameron, whose father died last year and whose mother is in a nursing home, must now decide what to keep or toss from their cluttered home in Shelburne,…”
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The Coming California Megastorm
“The Coming California Megastorm A different ‘big one’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival. By Raymond Zhong | Graphics by Mira Rojanasakul…”
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How Can Society Prepare for the Moral Norms of Tomorrow?
“When we look back at the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, we are often shocked at what they found morally acceptable: the public torture of criminals,…”
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“This much is undisputed: In 1994, Joe Nathan James Jr. murdered Faith Hall, a mother of two he had formerly dated; in 1999, he was sentenced to death in…”
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Should Former Presidents Get Special Legal Treatment?
“Last week, the F.B.I. searched the Florida home of former President Donald Trump and removed twenty-seven boxes of material that he had taken from the White…”