Articles by mitchbob
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How a New Israeli Policy Cuts Off Humanitarian Aid in Gaza (newyorker.com)

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Quillions: How Money Laundering Won (lrb.co.uk)

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How to survive the information crisis: 'Now reality itself feels fake' (theguardian.com)

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Who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about our future? (theguardian.com)

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First, the FBI Searched Her Home. Then, She Won a Pulitzer. (nytimes.com)

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Retardmaxx Your Life (retardmaxx.com)

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Robe-ot: the Android monk working to reboot the faith of South Korea's Buddhists (theguardian.com)

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How a Congressional Primary Became a Proxy Battle over A.I. (newyorker.com)

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How Should a Pixel Be? (nybooks.com)

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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (nybooks.com)

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Tight Curves and Wide Horizons: The Return of Highway 1 (nytimes.com)

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AI in Political Campaigns: They Have No Idea What's About to Hit Them (nytimes.com)

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After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age (newyorker.com)

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Ukraine Has Picked Up the Torch America Dropped (nytimes.com)

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Sabastian Sawe finishes London Marathon in under two hours to set world record (nytimes.com)

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When Your Digital Life Vanishes (newyorker.com)

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How Big a Threat Are Iranian-Backed Cyberattacks? (newyorker.com)

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Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley's Favorite Prophet, on Life's Most Important Princ (nytimes.com)

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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? (newyorker.com)

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Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution (theguardian.com)

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'Uber for nurses': gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds (theguardian.com)

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Russia Is Building Tomorrow's War Machine (nytimes.com)

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Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors (nytimes.com)

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Javier Milei Wants to Rewire the Argentine Mind (nytimes.com)

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George McGovern: On Taxing and Redistributing Income (1972) (nybooks.com)

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Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich (newyorker.com)

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Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court (nytimes.com)

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The Wired Belts Are the New Rust Belts (tufts.edu)

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Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men – With Chop Saws (newyorker.com)

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A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality (nytimes.com)

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Stakes high as Supreme Court set to rule on Monsanto's weed-killing pesticide (theguardian.com)

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Beirut: Now and Then (lrb.co.uk)

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The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age (lrb.co.uk)

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Gun Love – Paul Theroux (lrb.co.uk)

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Trump's push to cut interest rates has echoes of 'banana republic', says Yellen (theguardian.com)

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Trump Killed the One Thing That Made Filing Taxes Easier (nytimes.com)

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How Older Adults Are Using V.R. To Counter Social Isolation (nytimes.com)

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Ship 'Spoofing' in Strait of Hormuz May Compound Confusion (nytimes.com)

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What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine (nytimes.com)

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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology (newyorker.com)

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Elon Musk's X cuts payments to users who post clickbait (theguardian.com)

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Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss (theguardian.com)

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We Are All Constantly Mutating – and That's a Good Thing (newyorker.com)

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Trump's Changes Lock Some Employers Out of H-1B Visa Program (nytimes.com)

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To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns to Gamers (nytimes.com)

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A One-Man Workshop for Ultrapotent Drugs (nytimes.com)

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The Fast-Changing Chemistry of New, Dangerous Drugs (nytimes.com)

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We Are Witnessing the Rise of a New Aristocracy (nytimes.com)

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Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets (theguardian.com)

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An Economist's Quest to Solve America's Wage Problem (newyorker.com)

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San Francisco Sobers Up (nytimes.com)

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How to Poison an Ocean (newyorker.com)

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Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide (theguardian.com)

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Day Counter (xkcd.com)

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Trump announces 'fraud' crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in CA (theguardian.com)

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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk (nytimes.com)

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It's the Internet, Stupid (2025) (persuasion.community)

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Apple: The First 50 Years – David Pogue (simonandschuster.com)

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Cameron Reed: The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades (newyorker.com)

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The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign (newyorker.com)

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'Unsustainable': Congressional Scrutiny of Kalshi, Polymarket Explodes (politico.com)

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'Think Everybody Dead': How the Threat of AI Is Fueling a New Political Alliance (politico.com)

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How the Guillotine Got Axed (newyorker.com)

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'Terrible pollution': the reality of the US gas sites rated 'grade A' (theguardian.com)

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Musk's exploding megarocket puts $8B in space investments at risk (politico.com)

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Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI's 'CEO of Applications' (businessinsider.com)

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Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras (theguardian.com)

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Consider the Greenland Shark (2020) (lrb.co.uk)

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The Camps Promising to Turn You – Or Your Son – Into an Alpha Male (newyorker.com)

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Lael Wilcox on her quest to become the fastest human to cycle round the world (theguardian.com)

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JD Vance says aliens are 'demons' and details obsession with UFOs (theguardian.com)

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The Ozempicization of the Economy (kyla.substack.com)

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The Nap Room Didn't Love Me Back (thenation.com)

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From the Rooftops of Tehran (nybooks.com)

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The Unseen Work of One of Iran's Greatest Filmmakers (newyorker.com)

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The Rise and Fall of ICE-Tracking Apps (newyorker.com)

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'Changing a city is complicated': Anne Hidalgo on 12 years as Paris mayor (theguardian.com)

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In an Asymmetrical War, Iran Seeks an Edge with Its Information War (nytimes.com)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (lrb.co.uk)

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Will the Miracle of Capitalism Destroy Us All? (nytimes.com)

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Technology Weakens Our Minds. We Can Fix This. (nytimes.com)

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The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign (lrb.co.uk)

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How the Trump Administration Has Turned Left-Wing Activism into Terrorism (newyorker.com)

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Hungary charges journalist following claims minister was in touch with Moscow (theguardian.com)

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The Sudden Death of a Man Who Told Chinese Kids How to Succeed (nytimes.com)

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Wealthy Investors Are Targeting Foes of Clean Energy, and They Want Revenge (nytimes.com)

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Shield AI, a Startup Making Military Drones, Raises $2B (nytimes.com)

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Leon Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans (nytimes.com)

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Is Big Tech Facing a Big Tobacco Moment? (nytimes.com)

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Does A.I. Need a Constitution? (newyorker.com)

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Why You Hate Your Weather App (newyorker.com)

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Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can't Replace? (nytimes.com)

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (nybooks.com)

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In Defense of Algebra (nybooks.com)

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Conlon Nancarrow: The Prince of the Player Piano (2015) (nybooks.com)

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Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on 9 Comedy Albums (nybooks.com)

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How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really? (newyorker.com)

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“Collaboration” is bullshit (joanwestenberg.com)

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Laid Off in Midlife, China's Reform Generation Braces for Downward Mobility (nytimes.com)

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Garry Kasparov: The Chess Master and the Computer (2010) (nybooks.com)