Articles by mitchbob
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Shenzhen Express: The successes and failures of China's remarkable new economy (nybooks.com)

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[flagged] The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry (theguardian.com)

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Gerd Faltings awarded the 2026 Abel Prize (abelprize.no)

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Life in Hitler's Capital (newyorker.com)

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Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux (omgubuntu.co.uk)

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Iceland's Chief 'Lava Cooler' Is Bracing for the Next Eruption (nytimes.com)

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Can a "Living Drug" Cure Autoimmune Diseases? (newyorker.com)

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A Superpower Goes Offline (politico.com)

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The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic. What's Really at Stake? (newyorker.com)

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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve remarkable reductions in air pollution (theguardian.com)

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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 (apnews.com)

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Where Lisp Fails: At Turning People into Fungible Cogs (2009) (loper-os.org)

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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony (theguardian.com)

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A Call for Reporting Tips Rankles Pentagon Officials (nytimes.com)

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The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms (newyorker.com)

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The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART (nytimes.com)

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Language birth (asteriskmag.com)

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Iran Transformed (nybooks.com)

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Notes on Baking at the South Pole (newyorker.com)

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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently (nytimes.com)

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Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit (cloud.google.com)

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Aldous Huxley on the Power of Technology (1961) [video] (youtube.com)

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Sound and Silence: What made Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone? (1998) (newyorker.com)

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Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War? (newyorker.com)

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The dry and the wet burn together: On the war against Iran (lrb.co.uk)

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A Rock Star Philosopher (nytimes.com)

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The Wandering Physicist (nybooks.com)

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Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America's New Gilded Age (nytimes.com)

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Signs show that Khamenei is 'no longer with us', says Netanyahu (theguardian.com)

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Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters (theguardian.com)

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Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? (newyorker.com)

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'Play like a dog biting God's feet': Steven Isserlis on György Kurtág at 100 (theguardian.com)

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Tech legend Stewart Brand: 'We don't need to passively accept our fate' (theguardian.com)

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Divorce, Beijing Style (lrb.co.uk)

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Anthony Bourdain's Moveable Feast (2017) (newyorker.com)

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Anlife: What does an unusual evolution simulator have to say about AI? (theguardian.com)

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Russia opens criminal case into Telegram founder Pavel Durov (theguardian.com)

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IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight (nytimes.com)

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A Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs (nytimes.com)

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Norway's Century-Long Watch on the Northern Lights (nytimes.com)

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Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever (newyorker.com)

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The Next Great Transformation (theideasletter.org)

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Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher (newyorker.com)

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We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science (theguardian.com)

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Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep (newyorker.com)

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Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies (nytimes.com)

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AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions (theatlantic.com)

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Visions of America (lrb.co.uk)

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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science (lrb.co.uk)

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A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It's Not Clear Who. (nytimes.com)

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Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters (nytimes.com)

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Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer (nytimes.com)

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The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (lrb.co.uk)

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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] In Tehran (lrb.co.uk)

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Why the Future of Movies Lives on Letterboxd (nytimes.com)

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What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan? (nytimes.com)

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Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

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They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately (nytimes.com)

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To Build a Fire (newyorker.com)

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Why You Should Embrace Rejection (theguardian.com)

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Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned (theguardian.com)

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Clay Shirky: Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up (nytimes.com)

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Google Co-Founder Seeds Billionaire Political Effort Amid Wealth Tax Debate (nytimes.com)

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How to Bring Back the American Dream (nytimes.com)

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong (theatlantic.com)

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They Covered the Sky, and Then... (2014) (nybooks.com)

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Hard Times in the Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot (nytimes.com)

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The Most Important Question Is 'What If I'm Wrong?' (nytimes.com)

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Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian, in 2026 (sammatey.substack.com)

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Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One (stripe.com)

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How to Kill a Fish (newyorker.com)

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Mutual aid and asking people what they need (gomakethings.com)

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Panoply of the Weird (nybooks.com)

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World's richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026 (theguardian.com)

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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You (nytimes.com)

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The Theory That Gives Trump a Blank Check for Aggression (nytimes.com)

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OpenAI Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial (theguardian.com)

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Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide (theguardian.com)

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ProSocial World (prosocial.world)

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Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax (nytimes.com)

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I Study Friendship. Here's How You Make Lasting Friends. (nytimes.com)

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The Brazen Illegality of Trump's Venezuela Operation (newyorker.com)

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'Move fast, break stuff': how tech bros became Hollywood's go-to baddie in 2025 (theguardian.com)

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The Science of Resolutions (2019) (newyorker.com)

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A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport–and Leave Their Kids Behind (newyorker.com)

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Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL (nytimes.com)

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Billionaires added record $2.2T in wealth in 2025 (theguardian.com)

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The Oil Company Drilled. The Government Slaughtered. Who Is Guilty? (nytimes.com)

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The Lure of a Rising Asian Metropolis? No Traffic. (nytimes.com)

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The Dream of the Universal Library (asteriskmag.com)

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AI skeptic DeSantis: 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being' (politico.com)

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Would You Kill for a Job? (nytimes.com)

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Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It. (nytimes.com)

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The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer (joanwestenberg.com)

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How Effective Is Protesting? (theguardian.com)

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Is the Dictionary Done For? (newyorker.com)

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Reputation (FDA's Version) (asteriskmag.com)

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What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? (newyorker.com)

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The Race to Build the World's Best Friend (nytimes.com)