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The Case Against Travel (2023) (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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This California Highway Is Now a Park. The Cars Are Gone, but Not the Anger. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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At the Miho Museum (lrb.co.uk)

2 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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FTC investigates media watchdog over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Conformist (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Arms Race in Ukraine (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Fury as Republicans go 'nuclear' in fight over California car emissions (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | newest

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The Best Œuf Mayo in the World (For 2025) (davidlebovitz.substack.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | substack.com | newest

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Michael Pollan: This Is Your Priest on Drugs (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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An EPA Without Science (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites from Their Wasted Lives (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Apple Used China to Make a Profit. What China Got in Return Is Scarier. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship? DHS Considering It. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick (lrb.co.uk)

2 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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Building Drones–For the Children? (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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The Mortality Impacts of Usaid Cuts (asteriskmag.substack.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | substack.com | frontpage

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Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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OpenTable is paying in-demand restaurants to jump ship from Resy. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Can a $700 Calendar Save Your Marriage? (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (nick-lane.net)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nick-lane.net | frontpage

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Leftwing pundit Hasan Piker: US border agents questioned him on Trump and Gaza (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Three Faces of American Capitalism: Buffett, Musk, and Trump (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice (asteriskmag.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | asteriskmag.com | best

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Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Population Around a Point (tomforth.co.uk)

2 months ago | mitchbob | tomforth.co.uk | newest

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Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works (bbc.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | bbc.com | newest

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Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program 'Racist' and 'Unconstitutional' (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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For the Love of Money: Facebook's Predatory Cupidity (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (lrb.co.uk)

2 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Killing Memories: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Who's the Greatest Grifter of Them All? (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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How Is Elon Musk Powering His Supercomputer? (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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In Praise of Public Libraries (2019) (nybooks.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Rutger Bregman – "Moral Ambition" [video] (youtube.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | youtube.com | frontpage

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The Runner (2001) (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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2025 Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)

2 months ago | mitchbob | pulitzer.org | frontpage

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DeepSeek. Temu. TikTok. China Tech Is Starting to Pull Ahead. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Maga's era of 'soft eugenics': let the weak get sick, help the clever breed (theguardian.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Another Reason People Fear the Government (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain (newyorker.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating. (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Elon Musk Just Doesn't Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks (lithub.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | lithub.com | frontpage

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Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform (acm.org)

3 months ago | mitchbob | acm.org | newest

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'Numerous signs of torture': a Ukrainian journalist's detention and death (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | newest

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Indicted 'Bitcoin Jesus' Pays Roger Stone $600k to Lobby for Him (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The Dream Hotel (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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When a Small Rejection Feels Like 'The End of the World' (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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A.I. Is Quietly Powering a Revolution in Weather Prediction (yale.edu)

3 months ago | mitchbob | yale.edu | newest

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What could happen if the US ends global health funding (nature.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nature.com | newest

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To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Starved in Jail (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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Ray Dalio: US may face 'worse than a recession' from Trump tariffs (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | frontpage

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James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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[flagged] The Mystery of ICE's Unidentifiable Arrests (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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The Brazilian Judge Taking on the Digital Far Right (newyorker.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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In Greenland (lrb.co.uk)

3 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid: Trump's Gulag Archipelago (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Circling the Good: Thomas Nagel on Morality (nybooks.com)

3 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Allocation Mechanisms (allo.expert)

4 months ago | mitchbob | allo.expert | newest

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In the New Beijing (lrb.co.uk)

4 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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Hugues Oyarzabal, Surfing Star Who Rode with a Camera, Dies at 39 (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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22 Miles on Foot, 10 Minutes on a Tram: An 'Extraordinary' Day Hike (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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We're in a New Age of Techno-Spiritualism (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | mitchbob | wikipedia.org | newest

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Move fast, kill things: startups reinventing defence with Silicon Valley values (theguardian.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | theguardian.com | newest

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Delete the workforce: Musk's Twitter takeover (lrb.co.uk)

4 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Bryan Johnson Wants to Live Forever and Control via Confidentiality Agreements (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. She's a Target. (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Ursula Le Guin: Sur (1982) (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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The Government's Rock Librarian (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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Ungovernable, Capricious Life (nybooks.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | frontpage

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Toffler in China (nybooks.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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The Quantum Chaos of Literature (nybooks.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | frontpage

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Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Hugues Oyarzabal, Surfing Star Who Rode with a Camera, Dies at 39 (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Could We Store Our Data in DNA? (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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Thank God for Dynamite (lrb.co.uk)

4 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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DuckDuckGo's AI beats Perplexity in one big way – and it's free to use (zdnet.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | zdnet.com | frontpage

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Steal My Tesla (stealmytesla.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | stealmytesla.com | newest

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The Labor Theory of AI (nybooks.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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"Mickey 17" Is a Science-Fiction Adventure of Multiple Unwieldy Thrills (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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The 'Parasite' Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest

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The New Yorker Film "I'm Not a Robot" Wins a 2025 Academy Award (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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A Woman Wonders If She's Human in "I'm Not a Robot" (2024) (newyorker.com)

4 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Cal Newport: The Hollow Core of Elon Musk's Productivity Dogma (newyorker.com)

5 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Rebooting The Pentagon (nybooks.com)

5 months ago | mitchbob | nybooks.com | newest

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Texas's Barbecue Schism (newyorker.com)

5 months ago | mitchbob | newyorker.com | newest

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Wash out your ears: On Olivier Messiaen (lrb.co.uk)

5 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Serious Music – A Robotic Exoskeleton for Musicians (lrb.co.uk)

5 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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On the Chess Circuit (lrb.co.uk)

5 months ago | mitchbob | lrb.co.uk | newest

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Look Past Elon Musk's Chaos. There's Something More Sinister at Work. (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | mitchbob | nytimes.com | newest