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Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine As his invasion enters its fourth month, the Russian leader is preparing for the long haul. Meanwhile, the military is chattering about its losses, and putting out calls for supplies on Telegram. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/putins-pivot-to-a-really-big-war-in-ukraine Yes. Unfortunately, now they accept it. When we first…
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Kai Lenny Surfs the Unsurfable | The New Yorker
Kai Lenny Surfs the Unsurfable The big-wave surfer tackles some of the most fearsome swells on the planet. On the surface, it looks like he’s just having fun. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/kai-lenny-surfs-the-unsurfable Watching Kai Lenny surf at Pe‘ahi, a big-wave spot off the north coast of Maui, is slightly heart-stopping. You may have seen…
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On a Remote Mountain, the ‘Sistine Chapel of Socialism’ Awaits Its Fate – The New York Times
On a Remote Mountain, the ‘Sistine Chapel of Socialism’ Awaits Its Fate (Published 2022) An enormous monument to the Communist Party in Bulgaria is now a decrepit ruin. The country is wrestling with how to deal with a symbol of an unwanted and, in many ways, deeply ugly past. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/world/europe/on-a-remote-mountain-the-sistine-chapel-of-socialism-awaits-its-fate.html That struggle is celebrated…
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The Buffalo Shooter Shopped at their Gun Stores | The New Yorker
The Buffalo Shooter Shopped at Their Gun Stores New York and Pennsylvania shopkeepers recount their interactions with Payton Gendron, and the fears of civil war that have run rampant in his community since 2020. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-buffalo-shooter-shopped-at-their-gun-stores This was part of a nationwide trend. In 2020, firearm sales went up an estimated sixty-five…
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Inside Putin’s Propaganda Machine | The New Yorker
Inside Putin’s Propaganda Machine Current and former employees describe Russian state television as an army, one with a few generals and many foot soldiers who never question their orders. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/inside-putins-propaganda-machine Most recent episodes have been devoted to mocking Ukraine and its allies—especially the United States and President Biden—and debating Russia’s options.…
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How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash – The New York Times
How a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion Crash Do Kwon, a South Korean entrepreneur, hyped the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies. Their failures have devastated some traders, though not the investment firms that cashed out early. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/technology/terra-luna-cryptocurrency-do-kwon.html Mr. Kwon dismissed concerns with a taunt: “I don’t debate the poor.”
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The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. | The New Yorker
The Triumph of Marcos Dynasty Disinformation Is a Warning to the U.S. Maria Ressa and her staff at Rappler exposed the family’s false narratives, but social-media mythmaking prevailed in a historic election in the Philippines. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-triumph-of-marcos-dynasty-disinformation-is-a-warning-to-the-us “If, in a Duterte Presidency, the main issue was human rights, in a Marcos Presidency…
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A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime | The New Yorker
A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/a-ukrainian-city-under-a-violent-new-regime After he came to, he was brought to the former base of the 25th Brigade, in Melitopol. Russian soldiers there were carrying out a process known since the Chechen wars of the nineties as…
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Coffeezilla, the YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams | The New Yorker
Coffeezilla, the YouTuber Exposing Crypto Scams In the golden age of con artistry, self-proclaimed finance gurus are everywhere, with few checks on their claims. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/coffeezilla-the-youtuber-exposing-crypto-scams when I discovered crypto for the first time, it was, like, ‘Oh, that guy lost, like, five hundred thousand on Tuesday,’ ” he said. “Crypto scams are…
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Samuel Alito’s “Amelia Bedelia” Reading of the Constitution | The New Yorker
Samuel Alito’s “Amelia Bedelia” Reading of the Constitution What the Supreme Court Justice’s leaked draft opinion on abortion reveals about originalism. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/amelia-bedelia-meet-samuel-alito Originalists argue that it’s not their fault that the drafters may have been slaveholders, or uniformly male, or white, or without any knowledge of contemporary technology or a more…
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Matthew Wong’s Life in Light and Shadow | The New Yorker
Matthew Wong’s Life in Light and Shadow How a self-taught artist became one of the most celebrated painters of his generation. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/matthew-wongs-life-in-light-and-shadow The canvases quickly piled up. When the piles overwhelmed his space, he moved paintings into the director’s studio—or he moved, to work in someone else’s space. In 2015, he noted,…
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Madonna’s NFT Collab With Beeple Is a Matryoshka of Vagina Horrors
Madonna’s NFT Collab With Beeple Is a Matryoshka of Vagina Horrors Can’t Madonna just donate to charity without making everyone look at a 3D scan of her vagina? via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/731767/madonnas-nft-beeple-collab/ The works, collectively titled Mother of Creation, are a matryoshka doll of nightmares, a sort of telescoping abyss of bad things contained in worse…
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Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter | The New Yorker
Our Misguided Obsession with Twitter The social-media platform has become a spectacle driven by a narrow and unrepresentative group of élites. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/our-misguided-obsession-with-twitter The survey partitioned respondents into seven “tribes” defined by shared beliefs and behavior. The group farthest to the left, the “progressive activists,” contained only eight per cent of the…
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Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. – The New York Times
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. Oleg Tinkov spoke out against his country’s war in Ukraine. Now he is in hiding. In an exclusive interview he said, “I don’t believe in Russia’s future’’ under Vladimir Putin. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/world/europe/oligarch-putin-oleg-tinkov.html “I’ve realized that Russia, as a country, no longer exists,” Mr. Tinkov said, predicting that…
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Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom – The New York Times
Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom Now in his 70s, the pop culture icon has found his true calling on “Barry,” as the king of character actors. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/magazine/henry-winkler-barry.html When the producers of the HBO series “Barry” asked Henry Winkler to audition for the role of Gene Cousineau, they assured him that he was…
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Can Liberty University Be Saved? | The New Yorker
Can Liberty University Be Saved? After Jerry Falwell, Jr.,’s ouster, some students and alumni have sought a more thorough excavation of Liberty’s values. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-liberty-university-be-saved “I’ve always thought that, if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” Falwell said. The students cheered. Wahl…
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The Worst Boyfriend on the Upper East Side | The New Yorker
The Worst Boyfriend on the Upper East Side For decades, a man has romanced New York women, persuading them to invest in questionable business deals. How did he keep running the same scam? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-worst-boyfriend-on-the-upper-east-side After a month had gone by, Rachelle paid Julia back herself, but this didn’t assuage Julia’s suspicions.…
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Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection | The New Yorker
Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection A conversation with the filmmaker about the place of literature, the toll of war, and the conviction that his writing will outlast his movies. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/werner-herzog-has-never-liked-introspection When I wrote “Fitzcarraldo,” I was in San Francisco, and Francis Ford Coppola offered me the use of his mansion…
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How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship | The New Yorker
How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship Authoritarian governments in eighty nations have enacted restrictions on free speech and political expression that were falsely described as public-health measures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-chinas-response-to-covid-19-set-the-stage-for-a-worldwide-wave-of-censorship on January 23, 2020, the city of Wuhan went into lockdown. The next day, Chen…
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The National Guard Soldiers Trying to Unionize | The New Yorker
The National Guard Soldiers Trying to Unionize When Governor Greg Abbott took immigration policy into his own hands, sending ten thousand troops to the border, not everyone went along. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-national-guard-soldiers-trying-to-unionize I got spun up on this mission quicker than I did for Hurricane Harvey.” Schuler put in a request to be…