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

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Psychedelics Blew His Mind. He Wants Other Philosophers to Open Theirs. (nytimes.com)

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How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe (newyorker.com)

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If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? (newyorker.com)

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Documents offer rare insight on Ice's close relationship with Palantir (theguardian.com)

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What It's Like to Get Really, Really High (newyorker.com)

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Trump border czar Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50k from undercover agents (theguardian.com)

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Malfunctioning Sex Robot (2019) (lrb.co.uk)

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Reichstag Fire (wikipedia.org)

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'You could drink from that pond': the city digging for solution to toxic runoff (theguardian.com)

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'Peak SF' on a Friday Night Is a Robot Fight (nytimes.com)

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Poverty in California remains highest in US, tied with Louisiana, report says (theguardian.com)

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Slaughter for Hire: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group (nybooks.com)

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Brian Eno: What Art Does (lrb.co.uk)

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More Was Possible: A Review of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (asteriskmag.com)

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I'd Like to Believe (1999) (condenaststore.com)

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Has Britain Gone Too Far with Its Digital Controls? (nytimes.com)

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How to Prevent Our First A.I. President (nytimes.com)

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Your First Call After You Shoot Someone (newyorker.com)

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[flagged] The U.S. Government's Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García (newyorker.com)

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Does Society Have Too Many Rules? (newyorker.com)

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An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur (nytimes.com)

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Extremism and Radicalisation in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising (lrb.co.uk)

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The H-2A Visa Trap (propublica.org)

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Dirtbag Billionaire (simonandschuster.com)

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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in 'McCarthy era' move (theguardian.com)

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Trump Is Copying China. That's a Terrible Idea. (nytimes.com)

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Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded with Bad Reviews (nytimes.com)

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Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why. (nytimes.com)

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Watch What You Say: Review of Books on Free Speech (nybooks.com)

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The War App: Review of Karp and Zamiska's The Technological Republic (nybooks.com)

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"I Who Have Never Known Men" Is a Warning (newyorker.com)

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The Forces Behind Nepal's Explosive Gen Z Protests (nytimes.com)

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Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens? (nytimes.com)

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A Cynical Read on Anthropic's Book Settlement (spyglass.org)

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Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm (nytimes.com)

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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87 (nytimes.com)

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The huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100k trafficked people (theguardian.com)

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'People are so angry': how wealth tax became a battleground in Norway's election (theguardian.com)

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The Spectacular Comeback Tour of a Crypto Overlord (nytimes.com)

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Why Google Got Off Easy (nytimes.com)

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Thoughts on Visual Programming (btmc.substack.com)

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A California seashore says goodbye to dairy farms – and hopes to heal (theguardian.com)

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How to Blow Up a Planet (nybooks.com)

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Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature (theguardian.com)

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Why Don't We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? (newyorker.com)

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David Lynch's American Dreamscape (lrb.co.uk)

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Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits over Plastics (nytimes.com)

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The US is transforming into a 1930s-style autocracy, says billionaire Ray Dalio (cnn.com)

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When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture (newyorker.com)

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How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the Most Popular Manga Factory (newyorker.com)

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Inside the World of "The Great British Bake Off" (newyorker.com)

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Google Pixel 10 Pro Review: This A.I. Phone Can Save Time If You Surrender Data (nytimes.com)

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The $140B Failure We Don't Talk About (nytimes.com)

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The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang (newyorker.com)

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Clay Shirky: The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis (nytimes.com)

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'Positive Obsession' Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler (nytimes.com)

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The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars: What Andor Depicts (nybooks.com)

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Gift Economy (wikipedia.org)

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Base – SQLite database editor for macOS - V3.0 Released (menial.co.uk)

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Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won't Leave the Classroom (forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa)

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Trump Signals Fourth Delay of TikTok Ban (nytimes.com)

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Remembering Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books (berkeleyside.org)

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Whose Fed? (nybooks.com)

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Capitalism's Next Act (democracyjournal.org)

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A Tale of Two Jurists in the Trump Era (newyorker.com)

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Machine learning reveals how a hidden neural code orchestrates emotion states (science.org)

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The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing (newyorker.com)

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Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon (lrb.co.uk)

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Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise. (nytimes.com)

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Why Do Screens Keep You Up? It May Not Be the Blue Light. (nytimes.com)

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Always Inadequate: The Force of Low Self-Esteem (newyorker.com)

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How Baltimore's violent crime rate hit an all-time low: 'It's hard work' (theguardian.com)

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California Democrats Are Fighting Trump's Battle for Him (nytimes.com)

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The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault (nytimes.com)

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White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions (nytimes.com)

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The Origins of Efficiency (stripe.com)

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Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails (lrb.co.uk)

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How an Ultra-Rare Disease Accelerates Aging (newyorker.com)

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To Study Viking Seafarers, He Took 26 Voyages in Traditional Boats (nytimes.com)

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Spain Is Going Its Own Way (nytimes.com)

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What It's Like to Brainstorm with a Bot (newyorker.com)

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The Record Label That Reset My Expectations for Classical Music: ECM New Series (nytimes.com)

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What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved in Next Door (nytimes.com)

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After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She's Still an Amateur (nytimes.com)

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Trump Wants UCLA to Pay $1B to Restore Its Research Funding (nytimes.com)

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California Supreme Court Requires New Review of Rooftop Solar Policy (nytimes.com)

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) (harpers.org)

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Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified (science.org)

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Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra (prospect.org)

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Meet the AI Vegans (theguardian.com)

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Compensatory Puffing: Banning Cigarette Filters (lrb.co.uk)

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Bodies by Joe: Review of Books about Joseph Pilates (nybooks.com)

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A First Time for Everything: Theories about the Origin of the Universe (nybooks.com)

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The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn't Happen (newyorker.com)

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Norway's Hedged Bet on Europe's Energy Future: A Garbage Disposal for Emissions (nytimes.com)

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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World: Essays by David Graeber (lrb.co.uk)

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At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid (nytimes.com)

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The Trump Administration Tried to Silence Mahmoud Khalil, So I Asked Him to Talk (nytimes.com)

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The Pain of Perfectionism (newyorker.com)