Month: June 2024
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How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community | The New Yorker
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How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community The authorities didn’t seem to pay attention to the Gilbert Goons until one boy was dead and seven others were charged with murder. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/how-a-homegrown-teen-gang-punctured-the-image-of-an-upscale-community A group of older guys followed them. Because they were “tall and strong-looking,” one of…
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The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin – Texas Monthly
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The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin A spoiled heir to an auto-dealership empire responded to a blackmail attempt by ordering two murders. Four years and a jury trial later, what motivated his ruinous decision remains a mystery. via Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/erik-maund-blackmail-murder-for-hire-austin-car-dealer/ But on March 1, 2020, as the world…
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Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix | The New Yorker
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Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed by the Japanese master Tadao Ando, into a ruin. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/kanye-west-tadao-ando-beach-house-malibu How the hip-hop star’s beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy turned a beach house in Malibu, designed…
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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico | WIRED
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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico “We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-fanciest-stolen-bikes-trafficked-mastermind-jalisco-mexico/ “We have people stealing all over the world.” A…
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Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos | The New Yorker
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Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/ecuadors-risky-war-on-narcos Does President Daniel Noboa’s campaign against drug gangs imperil the democracy he claims to defend? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/ecuadors-risky-war-on-narcos
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now? | GQ
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now? Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and… normal. Can this really be a good thing? via GQ: https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-on-steroids-now My curiosity about this sudden ubiquity helps explain how I came to meet Nick, 33, a handsome white guy, comprehensively tattooed, dressed in…
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield – The New York Times
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield (Published 2015) She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to…
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined | WIRED
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files/ A year after…
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Fighting Trump on the Beaches | The New Yorker
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Fighting Trump on the Beaches Biden’s fiery D Day speech in Normandy warns against the ex-President’s isolationism, while Trump is back home, targeting “the enemy within.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/fighting-trump-on-the-beaches As I write this, it still seems insane, unimaginable, that these are sentences about a once and possibly future American President. But they are…
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