Articles by JumpCrisscross
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Most of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples with Protests and Economy (nytimes.com)

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Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database (nytimes.com)

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Saks Prepares for Bankruptcy After Missing Debt Payment (wsj.com)

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Oil Tanker Pursued by the U.S. Appears to Claim Russian Protection (wsj.com)

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I'm in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You're Not Getting a Car Today (mcsweeneys.net)

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Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)

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Boston Went Big on Luxury Condos. The Buyers Didn't Show Up (wsj.com)

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OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History (wsj.com)

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NASA Craft to Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year (wsj.com)

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Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa (nytimes.com)

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Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In (wsj.com)

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AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals (scientificamerican.com)

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China's Push to Master the Arctic Opens an Alarming Shortcut to U.S. (wsj.com)

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Slop Is Slop (daringfireball.net)

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PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (wsj.com)

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Trump-linked crypto venture fires auditor after FT inquiries (ft.com)

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The Age of Nuclear-Powered Commercial Ships May Be Getting Closer (wsj.com)

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Growing Iran Protests Put New Pressure on an Embattled Regime (wsj.com)

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The Rainforests Being Cleared to Build Your R.V (nytimes.com)

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A Police Drone Might Be Behind Your Next Ticket (wsj.com)

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Ukraine Is Winning the War at Sea (phillipspobrien.substack.com)

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Deep-sea gas hydrates and chemosynthetic fauna discovered on the Greenland Sea (nature.com)

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Police Say He Killed in Self-Defense. His Phone Tells Another Story (wsj.com)

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China Sanctions Boeing, Other U.S. Companies over Taiwan Arms Sale (wsj.com)

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Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions (nytimes.com)

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America's Biggest Oil Field Is Turning into a Pressure Cooker (wsj.com)

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They Were Supposed to Protect Young Workers. Instead, They Cashed In (nytimes.com)

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Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls (reuters.com)

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India Is on a Himalayan Building Spree to Prepare for a Clash with China (wsj.com)

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The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here (theatlantic.com)

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Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor (slatestarcodex.com)

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US Coast Guard lacks forces to seize Venezuela-linked tanker for now (reuters.com)

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Supreme Court Blocks National Guard Deployment to Chicago Area [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)

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60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS Don't Want You to See (thereset.news)

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How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? (nytimes.com)

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Trump Administration Halts All Offshore Wind Projects (wsj.com)

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Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape (nytimes.com)

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America's Seniors Are Overmedicated (wsj.com)

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One of Elon Musk's Old Enemies Joins the Race to Run GM (wsj.com)

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Canada's $1B Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia? (wsj.com)

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Epstein Files Photos Disappear from Government Website, Including One of Trump (nytimes.com)

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U.S. Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela (wsj.com)

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Gaza Strip: Famine conditions offset, but situation remains critical (ipcinfo.org)

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A Reddit post led to a breakthrough in the Brown shooting investigation (nytimes.com)

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Trump signs executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug (apnews.com)

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Trump Media to Merge with Fusion Energy Firm in $6B Deal (wsj.com)

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Senate Passes Defense Bill as Lawmakers Scramble to Fix D.C. Airport Provision (wsj.com)

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America's Largest Landowner Bets It Can Replace Met Coal with Pine Trees (wsj.com)

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Senators Press FBI over Failure to Investigate Epstein's Lawyer and Accountant (wsj.com)

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Poland to start producing anti-personnel mines to lay along eastern border (reuters.com)

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Amazon in talks to invest about $10B in OpenAI (reuters.com)

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LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation (tomshardware.com)

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Can U.S. Automakers Compete with Chinese EVs While Focusing on Gas Guzzlers? (wsj.com)

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U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains (wsj.com)

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China Has the Whip-Hand in Russia's War War in Ukraine (phillipspobrien.substack.com)

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Ukraine Claims Naval First with Underwater Drone Strike on Russian Submarine (wsj.com)

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El Salvador teams up with Elon Musk's xAI to bring AI to 5k public schools (apnews.com)

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China's AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity from Biggest Grid (wsj.com)

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Scam Compounds Become Targets in Thai-Cambodian Border War (wsj.com)

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The Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and the Dot-Com Bubble (wsj.com)

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SpaceX Starts a Wall Street Bake-Off to Hire Banks for Possible IPO (wsj.com)

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Variability of Technology Learning Rates (sciencedirect.com)

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The Land Trap by Mike Bird (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Tibetan Activists Say China Has Detained Protesters Who Staged Act of Defiance (wsj.com)

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Crumbling New York Parking Garages Get a New Life (nytimes.com)

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Wave of Gen-Z Unrest Fells Its First European Government (wsj.com)

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Oracle Can't Escape OpenAI's Shadow (wsj.com)

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Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela (wsj.com)

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Debt-Fueled Deals Are Back on Wall Street (wsj.com)

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iMessage's Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All Push Notices (daringfireball.net)

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Progressives used to view schools as engines of social mobility (theatlantic.com)

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The Warner Brothers lobbying bonanza (politico.com)

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Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far (grocerydive.com)

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They Killed My Source (theatlantic.com)

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The Accounting Uproar over How Fast an AI Chip Depreciates (wsj.com)

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Paramount Makes Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner After Netflix Struck Deal (wsj.com)

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Putin Wanted AI Supremacy. Now Russia Is Struggling to Stay in the Race (wsj.com)

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The power crunch threatening America's AI ambitions (ft.com)

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Apple's Succession Intrigue Isn't at All (daringfireball.net)

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NAR Says Typical First-Time Homebuyer Age Was 40 This Year–But Is This Accurate? (aei.org)

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India's Tight Grip on Bhutan (mondediplo.com)

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Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget (reuters.com)

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Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers (wiley.com)

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HBO Max's Mad Men Vomit Scene Proves 'Remastered' Doesn't Mean 'Better' (wired.com)

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Private employers shed 32,000 jobs in November (adpemploymentreport.com)

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Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs (theatlantic.com)

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Blue Origin Plans to Beat SpaceX to the Moon (wsj.com)

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Saudi Fund to Own Almost All of Electronic Arts After Buyout (wsj.com)

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China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home (reuters.com)

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OpenAI Completed Its Conversion. A New Ballot Initiative Seeks to Reverse It (wsj.com)

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AI's Great Infrastructure Boom: Bullwhip or Building the Future? (gadallon.substack.com)

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Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents (nytimes.com)

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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go–Now (theatlantic.com)

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The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined (theringer.com)

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Shopify Breaks Down on Busy Cyber Monday (wsj.com)

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Office-to-Residential Conversions Are Booming and New York Is the Epicenter (wsj.com)

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Scientology-Linked Startup Dream Exchange Loses Bid for SEC License (wsj.com)

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Top Gun Traders: Stock Bets and Crypto Culture Take over the Military (wsj.com)

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Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy (politico.com)

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Now Poorer Countries Are Shutting the Door on Refugees Too (wsj.com)