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This is a lot, but the articulation of a technology ecosystem optimized for poison is good. Also liked the comparison of AI content to PFAs in our soil. Calling Mark Zuckerberg a "putrid ghoul" is maybe the best thing I've read all year and it's January 3rd.
28 Dec 2024
On how Netflix is becoming Blockbuster.
25 Dec 2024
"The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go."
17 Dec 2024
An economic analysis of enshittification.
15 Dec 2024
03 Dec 2024
James Acaster embraces the hecklers
11 Nov 2024
An old Ted Chiang short story that feels very relevant in Trump 2.0 world.
30 Oct 2024
Or: how a fellow Rollercoaster Tycoon player actually achieved my childhood dream
29 Oct 2024
Ruth Reichl's classic exploration of the dichotomy of fine dining. Read it instead of assigned readings for my Food Studies seminar.
28 Oct 2024
Chan explores the eroticism inherent in cooking shows.
Getting a little heavy on the New Yorker pieces, but this is just too good.
25 Oct 2024
I discovered this while looking for another article. Some great names in here ("Mavis Stranger," "Minona Seagrove"). Wonderful vignettes of hitchhiking. But the best imagery is about how the place you're from spins you both like a web and a top. How true that rings.
21 Oct 2024
Written the last time it felt like things were falling apart, democratically. Great read on historical progress and our role in it, if at all.
08 Oct 2024
I mean, this is just the coolest.
Sisyphus couldnāt stop pushing his boulderābut you can.
Reframe on development economics.
01 Oct 2024
An absolute legend, and one of my first basketball heroes, dies way too young
28 Sep 2024
Crowd sourced recipes for the masses. Good, bad, and ugly delicious.
26 Sep 2024
A reflection of Sally Rooney's view of love within the lense of her personal Marxist views, and the Capitalist world in which she operates.
25 Sep 2024
Don Luigi Ciotti leads an anti-Mafia organization, and for decades he has run a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld.
24 Sep 2024
On the pleasure of better dictionary entries.
From the chow hall of Corcoran State Prison to the kitchen of Flour + Water.
23 Sep 2024
Ultrarunner Tara āCandy Mamaā Dower shaved 13 hours off Karel Sabbeās previous record for hiking the iconic route
Oldie but a goodie. A woman's extreme itch scratches our curiosity of psychosomatics and neural pathways.
22 Sep 2024
The very-bad-no-good White Sox are still having fun.
A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?
16 Sep 2024
A veteran diplomat explains how to navigate the U.S. development ecosystem, master the interagency process, and bring electricity to 200 million people.
Scientists have shattered our self-image as principled beings, motivated by moral truths. Some wonder whether our ideals can survive the blow to our vanity.
14 Sep 2024
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.