Category: You Should See This

What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? | The New Yorker

Dec 2, 2023

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What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Jennifer Gonnerman speaks to Kristin Kinkel, whose brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, Kristin is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/what-happens-to-a-school-shooters-sister I was surprised by her willingness to be so candid with a stranger.…
What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance | WIRED

Nov 28, 2023

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What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-doom-loop-citizen-surveillance/ JUST WHEN THE people of San Francisco thought they’d…
Russia Arrests Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova in Absentia

Nov 22, 2023

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Russia Arrests Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova in Absentia The artist faces an immediate two-month detention if she returns to her home country. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/858071/russia-arrests-pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-in-absentia/ Russian artist Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was arrested in absentia in Moscow yesterday, November 21, on the charge of “insulting the religious feelings of…
A Hedge-Fund Founder’s Obsessive Storytelling | The New Yorker

Nov 17, 2023

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A Hedge-Fund Founder’s Obsessive Storytelling A new book about Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, paints an unflattering picture—but it’s hard to imagine a record more damning than the one Dalio has created himself. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-hedge-fund-founders-obsessive-storytelling Dalio’s inquisitions, in Copeland’s telling, could get overtly cruel. He once berated a top deputy—a…
From Pixels to Punches: Geolocating a neo-Nazi and White Nationalist Combat Event in Los Angeles – bellingcat

Nov 16, 2023

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From Pixels to Punches: Geolocating a neo-Nazi and White Nationalist Combat Event in Los Angeles – bellingcat Chapters of an emerging white nationalist network from across the United States participated in a joint combat sports event in the Los Angeles area this August, according to open source evidence geolocated by Bellingcat. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/16/from-pixels-to-punches-geolocating-a-neo-nazi-and-white-nationalist-combat-event-in-los-angeles/ Several…
A Day in the Life of the Guy Who Harassed You on a Dating App | The New Yorker

Nov 15, 2023

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A Day in the Life of the Guy Who Harassed You on a Dating App At 12:10 P.M., I ate my meat-only Chipotle bowl alone. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-guy-who-harassed-you-on-a-dating-app I eat my meat-only Chipotle bowl alone.
No Human Being Can Exist | Online Only | n+1 | Saree Makdisi

Nov 9, 2023

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No Human Being Can Exist | Saree Makdisi What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical…
Inside the Israeli Crackdown on Speech | The New Yorker

Nov 8, 2023

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Inside the Israeli Crackdown on Speech Since the October 7th attack, Palestinians and peace activists in Israel have increasingly been targeted by employers, universities, government authorities, and right-wing mobs. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-human-rights/inside-the-israeli-crackdown-on-speech When Frey tried to check if there was anyone outside his apartment door, he discovered that someone had blocked the viewfinder.…
The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom | The New Yorker

Nov 6, 2023

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The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/the-kingpin-who-kidnapped-migrants-for-ransom The boss warned his captives, “It’s going to cost me about ten dinars”—seven…
A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon – The New York Times

Nov 5, 2023

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A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html More than half the Marines in the battery had eventually received diagnoses…
In the Middle East, Despair Is Not an Option | The New Yorker

Nov 4, 2023

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In the Middle East, Despair Is Not an Option A source of inspiration is that era of history, not so distant, when leaders and movements, for all their flaws and failures, agreed to agree. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/israel-gaza-hamas-war In an era of darkness and blood, it is nearly impossible to remember that, from Moscow…
Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas | The New Yorker

Nov 2, 2023

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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas Congress’s foreign-aid follies with Israel and Ukraine, and the fear of Trump in 2024. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/not-all-of-americas-national-security-threats-are-overseas Nine days ago, the idea that an obscure 2020 election denier from Shreveport, Louisiana, with less than five thousand dollars in his household’s bank accounts, a literalist’s belief…
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Oct 29, 2023

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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country | The New Yorker

Oct 26, 2023

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A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country In a new book, Elena Kostyuchenko attempts to work through how she missed—or, rather, failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/a-russian-journalists-pained-love-for-her-country The paper for which Kostyuchenko most dreamed of working was Novaya Gazeta, where Anna Politkovskaya, a fearless and revered reporter,…
From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG’

Oct 25, 2023

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From High Life Hackers to National Menace: The Rise and Fall of Digital Bandits ‘ACG’ Hackers ‘ACG’ popped champagne and bought sports cars. Then the group and its associates ushered in a bold new era of crime where anything is possible. via 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/high-life-hackers-national-menace-acg-the-comm-braiden-williams/ A service economy emerged of people who were willing to…
Book Review: Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried

Oct 24, 2023

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Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism How Michael Lewis got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried. via Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/how-michael-lewis-got-duped-by-sam-bankman-fried.html It is easy to see why Michael Lewis might have wanted to write a book about Bankman-Fried and FTX — they were all so rich. It is equally easy to see why the book that Lewis wrote, which…
China’s Age of Malaise | The New Yorker

Oct 24, 2023

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China’s Age of Malaise Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/chinas-age-of-malaise The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy…
The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources | The New Yorker

Oct 23, 2023

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The Real Cost of Plundering the Planet’s Resources Our accelerating rates of extraction come with immense ecological and social consequences. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/the-real-cost-of-plundering-the-planets-resources These days, Conway reckons, humanity mines, drains, and blasts more stuff out of the ground each year than it did in total during the roughly three hundred millennia between the…
Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power | The New Yorker

Oct 21, 2023

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Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/jim-jordans-conspiratorial-quest-for-power Taibbi’s thread, which received more than forty million views, rearranged information that Stanford had already been making available. “Even though all of our work is public, they reframed…
Israel’s Calamity—and After | The New Yorker

Oct 9, 2023

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Israel’s Calamity—and After October 7, 2023, will be a date etched in Jewish history. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/israels-calamity-and-after “Snuff films,” one Israeli friend called them. And yet, he said, “for some people it’s the only way to discover if their friends or relatives are alive or dead.”