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A welcome pit stop: the US college using parking lots to help unhoused students (theguardian.com)

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Netflix faces consumer class-action lawsuit over $72B Warner Bros deal (theguardian.com)

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What Makes Goethe So Special? (newyorker.com)

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Prefiguration (gomakethings.com)

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How to Leave the U.S.A. (newyorker.com)

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Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin (lrb.co.uk)

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A Very Big Fight over a Very Small Language (newyorker.com)

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$700 for a bed? San Francisco startup plots 'sleeping pod' expansion (theguardian.com)

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Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations (nytimes.com)

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What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year (newyorker.com)

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Don't Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives. (nytimes.com)

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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

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A Different Type of Dementia Is Changing What's Known About Cognitive Decline (nytimes.com)

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N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation's Next 'Big Battleground' (nytimes.com)

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I'm a Concert Pianist. This Is Why I Seek Imperfection. (nytimes.com)

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A.I.'s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy (nytimes.com)

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Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life (lrb.co.uk)

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A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind (newyorker.com)

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What Does "Capitalism" Really Mean, Anyway? (newyorker.com)

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One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World (newyorker.com)

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A Stand Against Coal Could Push Oakland Toward Bankruptcy (nytimes.com)

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The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner (nytimes.com)

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The Most Dangerous Genre (newyorker.com)

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A Startup's Bid to Dim the Sun (newyorker.com)

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A City Is Broke. Can a Billionaires' Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance? (nytimes.com)

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This Is No Way to Rule a Country (nytimes.com)

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Are we doomed? Review of books on depopulation and extinction (lrb.co.uk)

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Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations (theguardian.com)

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Don't Eat Before Reading This (1999) (newyorker.com)

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'You Are All Terrorists': Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison (nytimes.com)

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Make Medical School Three Years (nytimes.com)

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This Is What a Good Job Looks Like (nytimes.com)

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A San Francisco Clinic Shows Promise in Treating Drug-Fueled Public Breakdowns (nytimes.com)

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Salman Rushdie's Literary Inspirations (newyorker.com)

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Up and Then Down (2014) (newyorker.com)

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'We're sick of the OnlyFans model': Porn site lets Gen Z sex workers have a life (theguardian.com)

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Can the Global Economy Be Healed? (newyorker.com)

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Return of Chinese astronauts delayed after spacecraft struck by debris (theguardian.com)

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Top US billionaires' collective wealth grew by $698B in past year – report (theguardian.com)

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What Women Really Want: Work Boundaries (nytimes.com)

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Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit. (nytimes.com)

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A.I. Is Making Death Threats More Realistic (nytimes.com)

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Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart? (newyorker.com)

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Nexperia halts chip supplies to China in threat to global car production (theguardian.com)

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Scam: Inside South-East Asia's Cybercrime Compounds (lrb.co.uk)

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US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump's Brazil tariffs (theguardian.com)

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Some People Can't See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound. (newyorker.com)

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H.P. Lovecraft: The King of Weird (1996) (nybooks.com)

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Dylan (programming language) (wikipedia.org)

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The Florian Schneider Collection (juliensauctions.com)

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You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator (nytimes.com)

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A New Paradigm for Protecting Homes from Disastrous Fires (newyorker.com)

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[flagged] The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl" (newyorker.com)

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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says (reuters.com)

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The Real Target of Trump's War on Drug Boats (newyorker.com)

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Mark Bittman's Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining (newyorker.com)

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The Light of "The Brothers Karamazov" (newyorker.com)

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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing – startling stories of China's new precarity (theguardian.com)

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Trump claims 'unquestioned power' in vow to send troops to San Francisco (theguardian.com)

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The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929 (newyorker.com)

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Podcast Magic (podcastmagic.app)

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San Francisco opposes 'authoritarian crackdown' as Trump threatens (theguardian.com)

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Inside the Trump Administration's Assault on Higher Education (newyorker.com)

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Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches (theguardian.com)

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Walter Murch: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design (lrb.co.uk)

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US out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 years (theguardian.com)

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Trump Targets Democratic Districts by Halting Billions During Shutdown (nytimes.com)

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The Double Education of My Twins' Chinese School (2023) (newyorker.com)

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Building with Elixir for Three Years: A Production Retrospective (ryanrasti.com)

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge (newyorker.com)

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The Origins of Efficiency (stripe.com)

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San Francisco Wants to Destroy a 96-Year-Old's Defining Artwork (nytimes.com)

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Peter Matthiessen Travelled the World, Trying to Escape Himself (newyorker.com)

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Three Share Nobel in Economics for Work on How Technology Drives Growth (nytimes.com)

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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 (nobelprize.org)

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Tiny Homes Aim to Address Shortage on Lakota Reservation (nytimes.com)

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What If SportsCenter and LinkedIn Merged? (nytimes.com)

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'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app (theguardian.com)

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Women athletes losing their periods was long considered normal. Not anymore. (nytimes.com)

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Help! We Found a Hidden Camera in the Bathroom of Our Airbnb. (nytimes.com)

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[dupe] Nobel Peace Prize 2025 (nobelprize.org)

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Fast-fashion recycling is making Indian factory workers sick (theguardian.com)

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The War over Defense Tech (nybooks.com)

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The Price of Tomorrow (nybooks.com)

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Patrick Cockburn: Interviewing Hitler (lrb.co.uk)

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Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy. (nytimes.com)

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The Tech Jester Who Pranks San Francisco (nytimes.com)

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Where the Battle over Free Speech Is Leading Us (newyorker.com)

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California measure brings rideshare drivers one step closer to unionizing (theguardian.com)

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Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas (theguardian.com)

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Computers that want things: The search for Artificial General Intelligence (lrb.co.uk)

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China's Gen Z (lrb.co.uk)

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A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who'll Buy It All (nytimes.com)

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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It (newyorker.com)

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The Art of the Impersonal Essay (newyorker.com)

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The CEO Who Spends All Day Thinking About Sleep (nytimes.com)

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Putting ChatGPT on the Couch (newyorker.com)

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The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration (newyorker.com)

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Deep Hanging Out (1998) (nybooks.com)

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Louise Vincent, 49, Drug User Who Led Harm Reduction Movement, Dies (nytimes.com)