Owen Wilson Is Doing Great, Thanks
Three days with the star of ‘Loki,’ ‘The French Dispatch,’ and all those movies you know by heart.
via Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37227718/owen-wilson-interview-2021/
Three days with the star of ‘Loki,’ ‘The French Dispatch,’ and all those movies you know by heart.
via Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a37227718/owen-wilson-interview-2021/
For five years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? A trap? Or a complete waste of time?
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/enemy-is-us/
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip
On May 28, a Jefferson County woman whom we’ll call Sarah pulled her car into the driveway of her house on Lake Drive in Cedar…
via Riverfront Times: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/murder-at-lake-adelle/Content?oid=36094927&showFullText=true
Those of us who fought this war must now wonder: How could we have given the best parts of our lives to such a lie?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/opinion/afghanistan-war-veteran.html
Two years ago, the company brought in a blunt executive to make things move faster and to promote diversity. Then the problems began.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/technology/twitter-culture-change-conflict.html
The real challenge isn’t being right but knowing how wrong you might be.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-rational
It’s a dishonorable end that weakens U.S. standing in the world, perhaps irrevocably.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/does-the-great-retreat-from-afghanistan-mark-the-end-of-the-american-era
Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export.
via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/the-fury-and-fantasy-of-donald-trumps-florida
Their comeback has taken twenty years, but it is a classic example of a successful guerrilla war of attrition.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-return-of-the-taliban
Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie
When the author died at 28, he was on the cusp of literary fame. Everyone remembers him differently.
via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/anthony-veasna-so-afterparties.html
Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell
In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/magazine/taiwan-china.html
The rapid fall of important Afghan cities comes as insurgent fighters have pressed their offensive all around the country, dividing Afghan forces as U.S. troops depart.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-kunduz.html
In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.
via Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping
Should news outlets contextualize false claims made by powerful people? Or ignore them completely? There is no consensus in the industry, but its thinking continues to evolve.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/politics/trump-false-claims-media.html
PunkSpider is back, and crawling hundreds of millions of sites for vulnerabilities.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/punkspider-web-site-vulnerabilities/
For years, “Chapo Trap House” and other podcasts have paired anti-capitalist ideas with the rhetorical style of social media. Is a new form emerging?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/the-post-dirtbag-left