Author: trent
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Fentanyl, the portrait of a mass murderer | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
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Fentanyl, the portrait of a mass murderer It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents…
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The Search for a New and Better Internet | The New Yorker
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Can the Internet Be Governed? Amid worries about what Big Tech is doing to our privacy, politics, and psyches, many stakeholders—from activists to technocrats—are calling for a new rule book. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/can-the-internet-be-governed The proposal, part of a bigger push for what Xi Jinping has called a more “sovereign” Internet, was supported by…
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Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments | The New Yorker
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Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/inside-the-music-industrys-high-stakes-ai-experiments In October, Don Was told me about his session with Lyria. He prompted the model with the…
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“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?” | The New Yorker
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“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?” Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras. via The New…
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Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence | The New Yorker
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Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/sofia-coppola-profile When Coppola showed her father an early cut of the film, he advised…
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity | WIRED
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity/ Meiklejohn’s hundreds of purchases, bets, and seemingly meaningless movements of money were not,…