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The Risky Gamble of Kevin McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Strategy

Jonathan Blitzer writes about the House Republican’s budget proposal that was bundled with its vote to raise the debt ceiling, and about Kevin McCarthy’s weakened position as Speaker.

2023-04-28T13:22:28-0700 The New Yorker Jonathan Blitzer 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T07:49:08-0700

How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?

Carina Chocano on the company’s founder, Luis von Ahn, who believes that artificial intelligence is going to make computers better teachers than humans.

2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Carina Chocano 6,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:45:37-0700

Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste

Small modular reactors, long touted as the future of nuclear energy, will actually generate more radioactive waste than conventional nuclear power plants, according to research from Stanford and the University of British Columbia. #Climate Change #Infrastructure

2022-05-30T12:00:11-0700 Stanford News Stanford University 1,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T08:05:21-0700

Nuclear Power Today | Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear energy provides about 30% of the world's low carbon electricity. There are about 450 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in 30 countries. #Nuclear power

world nuclear 3,000 words

Rated 2023-04-29T08:48:08-0700

The Real Difference Between European and American Butter

epicurious

Rated 2023-04-28T14:38:16-0700

Wrong door, wrong driveway: How US got to shoot first, ask later

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-04-28T07:44:35-0700

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-26T23:07:40-0700

We Need To Decommodify Mental Health Care

noemamag.com

Rated 2023-04-26T22:22:32-0700

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T07:28:14-0700

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T00:03:53-0700

Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.

Slate

Rated 2023-04-25T23:05:45-0700

How Would You Run a 10,000-Year Endowment?

The Diff

Rated 2023-04-24T23:18:09-0700

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-24T22:44:45-0700

Fox News Is Bigger Than Any Host

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-24T22:16:52-0700

Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul.

The Ringer

Rated 2023-04-24T09:49:19-0700

#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic Magazine

thecritic.co.uk

Rated 2023-04-23T07:27:58-0700

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith

noahpinion.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-20T18:16:38-0700

The Future of Search Is Boutique

Future

Rated 2023-04-20T15:28:40-0700

MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen blasted for 'leave pity city' leaked video

NPR

Rated 2023-04-19T07:51:11-0700

I Really Didn’t Want to Go, by Lauren Oyler

Harper's Magazine

Rated 2023-04-18T14:19:45-0700

The 'Dead-Internet Theory' Is Wrong but Feels True

The Atlantic

Rated 2023-04-17T17:38:07-0700

Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple

GQ

Rated 2023-04-17T13:26:16-0700

Richard Montañez didn't actually invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos

Los Angeles Times

Rated 2023-04-17T10:29:47-0700

Mark Twain's Two Week Stint as a Confederate Soldier

historynet.com

Rated 2023-04-16T16:11:50-0700

Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?

Mother Jones

Rated 2023-04-16T09:46:06-0700

The early days of Linux [LWN.net]

lwn.net

Rated 2023-04-15T16:28:19-0700

Poking around OpenAI.

Irrational Exuberance

Rated 2023-04-14T17:10:35-0700

[Letter from Minneapolis] The Sanctuary

#Homelessness

2020-09-11T13:55:36-0700 Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/author/wesenzinna/#author 7,000 words

Rated 2023-04-13T19:16:16-0700

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local

Rated 2023-04-13T08:52:35-0700

How does a magician trick other magicians? We went to find out.

nationalgeographic.com

Rated 2023-04-12T17:48:08-0700

How to Beat Roulette: One Gambler Figured It Out and Won Big

Bloomberg

Rated 2023-04-11T08:40:36-0700

Barre Seid Donated $1.6 Billion to Conservative Marble Freedom Trust

ProPublica

Rated 2023-04-11T02:41:44-0700

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor

ProPublica

Rated 2023-04-10T22:23:30-0700

Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

Techdirt

Rated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700

Why Can’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis?

#California #Homelessness

Rolling Stone

Rated 2023-04-09T21:14:03-0700

Powerful Ansel Adams show centers his love for nature – and the peril it’s in | Photography

The Guardian

Rated 2023-04-08T15:21:24-0700

Deposit insurance maximization as a service

Bits about Money

Rated 2023-04-08T15:19:27-0700

How Lex Fridman's Podcast Became a Safe Space for the Anti-Woke Elite

Insider

Rated 2023-04-07T18:12:45-0700

Elon Musk says NPR's 'state-affiliated media' label might not have been accurate

NPR

Rated 2023-04-07T16:30:32-0700

NPR says it won’t tweet from @NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affiliated” label | Nieman Journalism Lab

Nieman Lab

Rated 2023-04-07T16:27:40-0700

How the Taxi Workers Won

The Nation

Rated 2023-04-07T12:33:12-0700

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails

The GitHub Blog

Rated 2023-04-07T06:59:43-0700

The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan

#Solar Geoengineering

MIT Technology Review

Rated 2023-04-04T23:26:44-0700

About – make-sunsets

#Solar Geoengineering

makesunsets.com

Rated 2023-04-04T08:57:42-0700

Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be replaced within 24 hours

CNN

Rated 2023-04-01T11:17:39-0700

What history's hidden grandmother of climate science teaches us today : Short Wave

NPR

Rated 2023-04-01T11:13:25-0700

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700

Biden student loan plan: What’s fair for borrowers, taxpayers?

#Student Loan Forgiveness

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-03-30T16:23:27-0700

Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast | Geoengineering

#Solar Geoengineering

The Guardian

Rated 2023-03-30T15:56:23-0700