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  • Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine | The New Yorker

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    Why the Summer Could Be Disastrous for Ukraine Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-the-summer-could-be-disastrous-for-ukraine The Russian leadership is now starting to think of the war like, This is a four-year war and…

  • The Case to End College Football

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    The Case to End College Football Big-time college football is one of the most egregious sites of economic exploitation in U.S. society today, the authors argue. via Sportico.com: https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2024/case-to-end-to-college-football-1234779221/ Ted Tatos and Hal Singer have calculated that Black football and men’s basketball players lose out annually on a $1.2 to $1.4 billion racial transfer of wealth…

  • How Kid Rock Turned Into A Republican Mouthpiece And Trump’s MAGA BFF

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    How Kid Rock Went From America’s Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans. via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kid-rock-republican-mouthpiece-trump-maga-bff-1235019530/ Two days after meeting with Ritchie at his house, I’ll see this…

  • A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz | PetaPixel

    A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz | PetaPixel

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    A Nazi’s Chilling Photos Show How He Wanted to Remember Auschwitz The banality of evil. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/22/a-nazis-chilling-photos-show-how-he-wanted-to-remember-auschwitz/ Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich wrote about the Nazi photo album in their 2018 play, Here There Are Blueberries. The award-winning play’s title highlights the carefree berry-eating put to photographic film just outside the site of the…

  • America’s Monster – The New York Times

    America’s Monster – The New York Times

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    America’s Monster How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/world/asia/afghanistan-abdul-raziq.html “You will learn to respect me and reject the Taliban,” Raziq said after the killings, which took place in the winter of 2010, according to the witnesses and relatives of both men. “Because I will come back and do this…

  • Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother – Mother Jones

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    Lessons from a mass shooter’s mother A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/05/threat-assessment-mass-shooting-elliot-rodger-isla-vista-mother/?src=longreads A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy. https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2024/05/threat-assessment-mass-shooting-elliot-rodger-isla-vista-mother/?src=longreads

  • I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. Send Help. – Mother Jones

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    I read everything Elon Musk posted for a week. Send help. If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/i-read-everything-elon-musk-posted-for-a-week-send-help/?src=longreads He believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a…

  • Donald Trump’s Day at the Supreme Court | The New Yorker

    Donald Trump’s Day at the Supreme Court | The New Yorker

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    King Donald’s Day at the Supreme Court A political hit job? A military coup? Trump’s lawyer tests the boundaries of a truly imperial Presidency. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/king-donalds-day-at-the-supreme-court This is a man who believes he is fully above the law. Jail time is something that happens to other people, not to him. “A President…

  • Inside the Crisis at NPR – The New York Times

    Inside the Crisis at NPR – The New York Times

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    Inside the Crisis at NPR Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/media/npr-uri-berliner-diversity.html One 2020 survey, from the Pew Research Center, found that of the people who named NPR as their main source for political and election news,…

  • Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone | The New Yorker

    Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone | The New Yorker

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    Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/jonathan-haidt-wants-you-to-take-away-your-kids-phone So the environment that we were in suddenly changes. Now the iPhone isn’t just a tool; it is actually…

  • Chechnya Bans Music Deemed too Fast or too Slow

    Chechnya Bans Music Deemed too Fast or too Slow

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    Chechnya Bans Music Deemed too Fast or too Slow Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” are banned under the new restrictions. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/900460/chechnya-bans-music-deemed-too-fast-or-too-slow/ The Chechen Ministry of Culture formally announced the new musical restrictions on April 3, specifying that all musical, vocal, and choreographic works are now required to correspond to a tempo…

  • Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse | The New Yorker

    Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse | The New Yorker

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    Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse Betting should be legal, but pro leagues and major networks are undermining the value of sports in a bid to get in on the action. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/online-gambling-is-changing-sports-for-the-worse The legalizations of vices can be followed by gleeful oversaturation, and that period of chaos and moral…

  • The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools | The New Yorker

    The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools | The New Yorker

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    The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools In Los Angeles, a task force of detectives is battling organized retail theft, in which boosted goods often end up for sale online—or commingled on store shelves with legitimate items. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/the-crime-rings-stealing-everything-from-purses-to-power-tools “A misdemeanor is a misdemeanor, a theft is a theft.…

  • There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764 | WIRED

    There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764 | WIRED

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    There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764 A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/ “Their main aim is to traumatize you,” says Anna, a young woman groomed and victimized…

  • A Bullshit Genius – The Drift

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    A Bullshit Genius On a friendly stroll somewhere in Colorado in the summer of 2004, Steve Jobs asked Walter Isaacson if he would consider writing his biography. via The Drift: https://www.thedriftmag.com/a-bullshit-genius/ But within the context of Isaacson’s nine books, Musk is not an anomaly. In method and thesis, it is perfectly in line with a…

  • Watch It Burn – The Atavist Magazine

    Watch It Burn – The Atavist Magazine

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    Watch It Burn Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century. via The Atavist Magazine: http://magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-france-europe-carbon-fraud-scam-vat-betrayal/ Unlike VAT fraud with mobile phones, no empty vans were required. The carbon market rendered even the pretense of real-world trade unnecessary because its product was an absence, an unemitted ton of gas. All someone…

  • How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin | WIRED

    How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin | WIRED

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    How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.” via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/ They realized they could track world leaders through Locomotive, too. After acquiring…

  • How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times

    How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times

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    How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html “Soon after the printing press emerged in the 15th century, the scriptoriums for copying manuscripts in monasteries rapidly began shutting…

  • Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration – The New York Times

    Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration – The New York Times

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    A Land Once Emptied by War Now Faces a Peacetime Exodus Bosnia is being hit by a combination of a low birthrate and emigration, a trend fueled by ethnic tensions and disgust with corruption. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/world/europe/bosnia-population-emigration-birthrate.html Mr. Kremic said that a rough guide to how much the population had dropped was a study conducted last…

  • Safety Net – Longreads

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    Safety Net – Longreads These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies. via Longreads: http://longreads.com/2024/02/27/safety-net-public-libraries/ To be a public servant in America is to contend with a fair amount of trauma. The institutions are collapsing, and public librarians, especially, have a front row seat to the fallout.…