June 17, 2022
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Sure, I Guess I’ll Go See Jurassic Marvel Gun Barbie World 9
“Olive Burd / BuzzFeed News This week, the internet was agog in tongue emojis and admiration as the first photos of the upcoming Barbie movie, directed by Greta…”
June 16, 2022
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“When I was growing up in the suburbs, I was bothered by all the construction going on in the big city nearby (New York). Whenever I visited, there were detours,…”
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Opinion | Beware the Ruinous Optimism of Democratic Leaders
“Jamelle Bouie Beware the Ruinous Optimism of Democratic Leaders June 14, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Desiree Rios for The New York Times Send any friend a…”
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The myth of trustlessness | New_ Public Magazine
“The myth of trustlessness | New_ Public Magazine”
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Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O.
“Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women…”
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Ginni Thomas corresponded with John Eastman, sources in Jan. 6 House investigation say
“The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme…”
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When should a creator throw in the towel?
“Image licensed from Getty Images Welcome! I’m Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: Let’s jump…”
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Forget Gold, Stock and Bonds. Invest in Legos
“Some of us still have a few old Lego sets in the garage that we just don’t have the heart to throw away. And as it turns out, maybe we shouldn’t. In fact, Legos…”
June 15, 2022
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Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning’
“As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change , the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts…”
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Opinion | The ugly truth about the right-wing grift machine has been revealed
“In addition to building a damning case that Donald Trump and his co-conspirators hatched a premeditated scheme to steal a presidential election they knew he’d…”
June 14, 2022
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Melanie Lynskey Felt Like a Hollywood Misfit
“Photo: Art Streiber. Styling by Misha Rudolph. Hair by Richard Collins. Makeup by Stephen Sollitto for tmg-LA. Melanie Lynskey was 15 when the producer and…”
June 13, 2022
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“From: Robin Sloan To: the lab Sent: June 2022 Specifying Spring ‘83 Hello! I have got to get this out of my HEAD! What follows is a narrative description of…”
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Opinion | The State of Immunity
“Guest Essay The State of Immunity June 13, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Josie Norton Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give…”
June 12, 2022
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Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
“Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. Due to technical limitations the…”
June 11, 2022
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The Moral Desolation of the GOP
“Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public…”
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The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge
“Nestled west of Washington, D.C., amid the bland northern Virginia suburbs, are generic-looking office parks that hide secret government installations in plain…”
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“The narrative has been incubating for many years, but in recent days we are witnessing some extraordinary progress in treating and monitoring cancer. The…”
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
“SAN FRANCISCO — Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to…”
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“According to Microsoft, people have 250% more meetings every day than they did before the pandemic , a statistic that makes sense and deeply sucks. Derek…”
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Ten Ways of Thinking About Endings
“I got a cluster of questions regarding endings and how we know we’re finished with a story, including the following three: Q1. What is your advice for knowing…”
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“We seek personal growth. But when we say “personal growth” we don’t imagine us getting bigger, say gaining weight, or our ego enlarging, our head ballooning, or…”
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A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
“In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two days in a row, she dined…”
June 10, 2022
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“Ideas Hard Wired How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars Hari Kunzru The first backlash to Sociobiology came from Harvard…”
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Why Are Police So Bad at Their Jobs?
“× John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP The inaction in the case of the Uvalde school shooter is the most egregious example in a string of police incompetence in…”
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White Christian Nationalism ‘Is a Fundamental Threat to Democracy’
“Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images An ideology is on the march. Traces of it are detectable in a racist massacre in Buffalo ; in Tucker Carlson ’s monologues;…”
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Life’s Preference for Symmetry Is Like ‘A New Law of Nature’
“Trilobites Techniques from computer science may help explain the tendency in biology for structures to repeat themselves. Send any friend a story As a…”
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Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment
“When it came time for my novel, Planes , to get a cover, I was thrilled to learn that Linda Huang had been assigned to make it. I met Linda in the fall of 2004,…”
June 9, 2022
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Paying extra for premium gas? You should probably stop
“You love your car. You want to treat it well. You certainly don’t want to do anything that would damage it. That’s why you’ve been filling it with premium…”
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The U.S. is under siege by Christian nationalists. It’s time media outlets recognize it.
“If you were at the center of a religious crusade , do you think you’d be able to detect it? I ask because it’s becoming increasingly clear that the United…”
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Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns
“PITTSBURGH (AP) — The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary…”