Month: October 2023
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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country | The New Yorker
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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country In a new book, Elena Kostyuchenko attempts to work through how she missed—or, rather, failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/a-russian-journalists-pained-love-for-her-country The paper for which Kostyuchenko most dreamed of working was Novaya Gazeta, where Anna Politkovskaya, a fearless and revered reporter,…
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From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG’
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From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG’ Hackers ‘ACG’ popped champagne and bought sports cars. Then the group and its associates ushered in a bold new era of crime where anything is possible. via 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/high-life-hackers-national-menace-acg-the-comm-braiden-williams/ A service economy emerged of people who were willing to…
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Book Review: Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried
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in DarkTwilight of the Heroes of Capitalism How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried. via Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/how-michael-lewis-got-duped-by-sam-bankman-fried.html It is easy to see why Michael Lewis might have wanted to write a book about Bankman-Fried and FTX — they were all so rich. It is equally easy to see why the book that Lewis wrote, which…
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China’s Age of Malaise | The New Yorker
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China’s Age of Malaise Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/chinas-age-of-malaise The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy…
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The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources | The New Yorker
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The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources Our accelerating rates of extraction come with immense ecological and social consequences. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-real-cost-of-plundering-the-planets-resources These days, Conway reckons, humanity mines, drains, and blasts more stuff out of the ground each year than it did in total during the roughly three hundred millennia between the…
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Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power | The New Yorker
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Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/jim-jordans-conspiratorial-quest-for-power Taibbi’s thread, which received more than forty million views, rearranged information that Stanford had already been making available. “Even though all of our work is public, they reframed…
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