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Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles – The New York Times
Reporter Says Taliban Forced Her to Publicly Retract Accurate Articles A veteran war reporter in Afghanistan was told she would go to jail if she didn’t tweet an apology for her reporting. She has since safely left the country. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/business/media/taliban-reporter-lynne-odonnell.html In one of the coerced tweets, posted on Tuesday, Ms. O’Donnell wrote: “l apologize…
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The Age of the Superyacht | The New Yorker
The Haves and the Have-Yachts Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny. The ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts Nobody pretends that a superyacht is a productive place to stash your wealth. In a column this spring headlined “a superyacht is a terrible asset,” the Financial Times observed, “Owning…
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Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation | The New Yorker
Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/alan-dershowitzs-marthas-vineyard-cancellation Yeah, of course. So I’ve been cancelled, basically, by the Chilmark Library. That has resulted in lots of people in Chilmark calling me and calling…
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How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Became a Grim Joke — New York Magazine – Nymag
How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Became a Grim Joke — New York Magazine – Nymag From the March 13, 1995 issue of New York Magazine. via New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/47548/ Across the room, Elliott, Hiscock, Garofalo and a college friend, and Mark McKinney are crammed into a banquette. Jim Downey, jocular, the pressure off for a…
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Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy? | The New Yorker
Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy? Its founders believe that they can use the tools of the Western art world to help heal the effects of more than a century of plunder. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/can-an-artists-collective-in-africa-repair-a-colonial-legacy He spent a couple of weeks parading through rubble and Chechen refugee camps, playing…
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How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany
How Vladimir Putin Helped ‘Nazify’ Modern Germany – Longreads Rainer Sonntag was a far-right vigilante. He was also a Communist spy. via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2022/07/06/follow-the-leader-neo-nazi-communist-spy-atavist-magazine/ Throughout the evening, far-right youth—some with shaved heads, others with the feathery mullets still fashionable in the Eastern Bloc’s dying days—gathered in nearby bars and outside the boarded-up Faun Palace porn…
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End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense | WIRED
End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense With abortion set to be criminalized in more than half the US, encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/end-to-end-encryption-abortion-privacy/ “Effective, uncensorable, secret communications are certainly far more valuable to resistance movements than small arms are,” says computer security consultant Ryan Lackey. “If…
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Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial – The New York Times
Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial Sixty years after the execution of Adolf Eichmann, the logistics chief of the Holocaust, an Israeli documentary airs his confessions in his own voice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/world/middleeast/adolf-eichmann-documentary-israel.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News Exposing Eichmann’s visceral, ideological antisemitism, his zeal for hunting down Jews and his role in the mechanics of mass…
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Haiti a Year After the Presidential Assassination | The New Yorker
Haiti a Year After the Presidential Assassination Justice evades Jovenel Moïse’s family and the rest of the country. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/haiti-a-year-after-the-presidential-assassination In June, a social-media-savvy gang known as 5 Segonn—Five Seconds—took over one of Haiti’s largest courthouses using military-type weapons and drones. The attackers burned documents and seized computers and safes filled with…
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On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’ – The New York Times
On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’ Election fraud claims from 2020 are widespread on talk radio, contributing to the belief that the midterm results cannot be trusted. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/media/conservative-radio-democrats-cheat.html “You don’t get as specific as a particular company so they can’t come back and sue you,” said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor…
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The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs | The New Yorker
The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. Amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs They accused one another of lowering the water table and drying up neighboring wells. “I am so sorry for your…
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Joseph Smith and the Birth of Mormonism | The New Yorker
Joseph Smith and the Birth of Mormonism The cartoonist Noah Van Sciver explores the life and times of an American prophet. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/joseph-smith-and-the-birth-of-mormonism His latest book, the graphic-novel biography “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” will be published at the end of July. It is a nuanced and complicated portrait of Mormonism’s founder.…
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Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist. | Vanity Fair
Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist. The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night. via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/06/rare-nintendo-atari-games-stolen On the rainy evening of November 6, a man and a woman arrived in a beat-up car. The man was wearing a…
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The Eliud Kipchoge Ripple Effect: Sub-7 and Sub-8-Hour Triathlons – The New York Times
The Eliud Kipchoge Ripple Effect: Sub-7 and Sub-8-Hour Triathlons Kipchoge’s sub-two-hour marathon in 2019 inspired efforts to reach previously unimaginable times for men and women in the triathlon. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/sports/sub-7-and-sub-8-hour-triathlons.html “We want to see what’s an impossible target,” McCormack said.
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The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube – The New York Times
The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube One of the most popular genres of videos online is to comment on other videos online. Are they comedians or media critics? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/magazine/youtube-critics.html Kolodziejzyk and Miller and others like them — YouTubers like Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez — don’t just inform you about internet ephemera; they also…
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Abortion Ruling Poses New Questions About How Far Supreme Court Will Go – The New York Times
Abortion Ruling Poses New Questions About How Far Supreme Court Will Go The decision overruling Roe v. Wade exposed internal divisions among conservative justices about reconsidering other rights. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/supreme-court-abortion-contraception-same-sex-marriage.html “One of two things must be true,” they wrote. “Either the majority does not really believe in its own reasoning. Or if it does, all…
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How China Is Policing the Future – The New York Times
‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html They can warn the police if a victim of a fraud tries to travel to Beijing to petition the…
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What a Disturbing New Film Reveals About Modi’s India | The New Yorker
What a Disturbing New Film Reveals About Modi’s India “The Kashmir Files” depicts the decades-old exodus of Hindus from the Muslim-majority region. For nationalists, it’s perfect propaganda. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/what-a-disturbing-new-film-reveals-about-modis-india “The Kashmir Files” is a soft, emotional film. “A soft, emotional film.” Is that what you said?
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What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy – The New York Times
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy A New York Times analysis of visual evidence from Ukraine showed widespread use by Russia of cluster weapons banned under certain international treaties. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-munitions-war-crimes.html The Times examined more than 1,000 pictures taken by its own photojournalists and wire-service photographers working on the…
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Ukraine War Deaths: A Special Report – The New York Times
Death in Ukraine: A Special Report From battlefields pockmarked by artillery shells to basements and backyards filled with civilian corpses, the war has exacted a staggering toll in lives lost. New York Times reporters who have covered the war present accounts of the many ways that death a Link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/18/world/ukraine-russia-news-deaths