Month: August 2021
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Capitol Riot Defendant Lawyer, John Pierce, Has Disappeared for a Week – The New York Times
Go-to Lawyer for Capitol Riot Defendants Disappears (Published 2021) John Pierce has been a combative advocate for those accused of participating in the Jan. 6 attack, but he’s missed court appearances for a week. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/nyregion/capitol-riots.html “I’m like Gerard Butler in ‘300,’” Mr. Pierce said in an interview before dropping out of sight, comparing himself…
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Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan Is Complete | The New Yorker
Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan Is Complete The U.S. has extricated its military from a two-decade-long conflict, but the country, and tens of thousands of Afghan allies, have been abandoned to the Taliban. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-chaotic-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-is-complete A high-school teacher at an American school in Taiwan tried to fly out seven young leaders and…
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The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies | The New Yorker
The Veterans Struggling to Save Afghan Allies For many who served in Afghanistan, the flawed evacuation efforts have brought feelings of shame and betrayal. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-veterans-struggling-to-save-afghan-allies “Do you understand what it’s like to have people send you messages saying, ‘You promised me you’d get me out,’ ‘I’m being hunted,’ ‘You can’t get…
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Can Afghanistan’s Leading Broadcaster Survive the Taliban? – The New York Times
Can Afghanistan’s Leading Broadcaster Survive the Taliban? (Published 2021) Tolo came to prominence with hard-hitting news, raucous reality shows and lurid Turkish soap operas. Now there are ominous signs that a violent media clampdown is underway. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/asia/afghanistan-tolo-taliban.html But journalists and human rights advocates say there are ominous signs that a violent media clampdown is…
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“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” – Columbia Journalism Review
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army of ethnic Albanian fighters openly fought Serbian police and faced retaliation from Serbian militar via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/in-kosovo-own-truth.php Between 2013 and mid-2016,…
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American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul | The New Yorker
American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul Soldiers were told that we were champions of the rights of mankind. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/american-purpose-after-the-fall-of-kabul The next time that feeling comes around, remember what it wrought. 9/11 unified America. It overcame partisan divides, bound us together, and gave us the sense of common purpose so lacking…
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As Told To: The Flight From Kabul | The New Yorker
As Told To: The Flight From Kabul Last week, the Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi hastily packed a few things, made it onto a flight, and watched from the airplane window as her city got smaller and smaller. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/as-told-to-the-flight-from-kabul I was running, and in the middle of my running some people made…
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The Spine Collector
The Spine Collector For five years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? A trap? Or a complete waste of time? via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/stealing-books-before-release-mystery.html#_ga=2.215798815.903158467.1629117538-1459850996.1625077603 Back at Norstedts, Mörk also received an email from Varotto. “Sorry Catherine,” the message read. “Could you please give me the Hushmail code?” Altrov…
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Owen Wilson Interview 2021 – Owen Wilson on Mobius, ‘The French Dispatch,’ His Darkest Days
Owen Wilson Is Doing Great, Thanks Three days with the star of ‘Loki,’ ‘The French Dispatch,’ and all those movies you know by heart. via Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37227718/owen-wilson-interview-2021/ “There was a lake in the neighborhood that we went to as kids,” Luke says. “One summer, Owen tried a thing where, in order to be in the…
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The Enemy Is Us | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The Enemy Is Us via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/enemy-is-us/ “The single biggest mistake that a photographer can make,” Philip Jones Griffiths once said, “is to believe in the profession, to believe in magazines and newspapers. When that happens, you have already failed. One must work first and foremost to satisfy oneself.” (quoted from: Interview with…
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The World’s Largest Computer Chip
The World’s Largest Computer Chip In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip Cerebras produced its first chip, the Wafer-Scale Engine 1, in 2019. The WSE-2, introduced this year, uses denser circuitry, and contains 2.6 trillion transistors collected into…
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At Lake Adelle, the Dead, the Missing and Those Left Behind | Feature | St. Louis | St. Louis News and Events | Riverfront Times
At Lake Adelle, the Dead, the Missing and Those Left Behind On May 28, a Jefferson County woman whom we’ll call Sarah pulled her car into the driveway of her house on Lake Drive in Cedar… via Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/murder-at-lake-adelle/Content?oid=36094927&showFullText=true Sarah had reason to be wary beyond the bizarre nature of the manic appeal. Detectives…
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Opinion | Afghanistan’s Fall, Seen By a Veteran Who Fought There – The New York Times
Opinion | I Was a Marine in Afghanistan. We Sacrificed Lives for a Lie. (Published 2021) Those of us who fought this war must now wonder: How could we have given the best parts of our lives to such a lie? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/opinion/afghanistan-war-veteran.html But the speed of the Taliban’s advance makes clear that this outcome…
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Culture Change and Conflict at Twitter – The New York Times
Culture Change and Conflict at Twitter (Published 2021) Two years ago, the company brought in a blunt executive to make things move faster and to promote diversity. Then the problems began. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/technology/twitter-culture-change-conflict.html Mr. Davis, the company’s new vice president of design, asked employees to go around the room, complimenting and critiquing one another. Tough…
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Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era? | The New Yorker
Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era? It’s a dishonorable end that weakens U.S. standing in the world, perhaps irrevocably. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/does-the-great-retreat-from-afghanistan-mark-the-end-of-the-american-era On Monday, August 9th, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul posed a question to its four hundred thousand followers: “This #PeaceMonday, we want to hear…
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Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? | The New Yorker
Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? The real challenge isn’t being right but knowing how wrong you might be. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-rational Often, I asked myself, How would Greg think? I adopted his habit of tracking what I knew and how well I knew it, so that I could separate my…
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“All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Florida | Vanity Fair
“All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Florida Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export. via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/the-fury-and-fantasy-of-donald-trumps-florida At its peak in the…
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The Return of the Taliban | The New Yorker
The Return of the Taliban Their comeback has taken twenty years, but it is a classic example of a successful guerrilla war of attrition. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-return-of-the-taliban In April, President Joe Biden announced his intention to carry on with the withdrawal, and pull out forces by September 11th. However much he says that…