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7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor CampA man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times. #China #Crime 2023-12-17 1:54am The New York Times Isabelle Qian, Pablo Robles ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-18 1:56pm
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Opinion | What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic SpeechThe proper response to censorship is not more censorship. #Censorship #College #Harvard 2023-12-10 6:00am The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-10 3:08pm
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Europe And U.S. Diverge Sharply On Treatment Of Gender Incongruence In MinorsIn line with precautionary principle, introduction of treatments whose effects are either disputed or unknown should be carefully reviewed before being routinely adopted. #Transgender 2023-12-2 6:15am Forbes Joshua Cohen 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-3 10:25pm
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Why Anonymous Sperm Donation Is Over, and Why That MattersActivists are trying to end secrecy for sperm and egg donors — a campaign that troubles some L.G.B.T.Q. families. 2023-12-3 2:03am The New York Times Emily Bazelon ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-3 5:48pm
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God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand The Paper On AI MonosemanticityInside every AI is a bigger AI, trying to get out 2023-11-27 1:00pm astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 20,000 words Rated 2023-11-28 5:49pm
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Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources sayAhead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. 2023-11-22 6:51pm Reuters Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-22 8:26pm
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Do Squirrels Remember Where They Buried Their Nuts?Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map? 2023-11-20 8:45am Scientific American Emma Bryce 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 7:36am
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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech”“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them 2022-8-14 12:47pm The Popehat Report Ken White 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-20 8:40pm
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My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut UpElon Musk and The Enduring Appeal of “Criticism is Censorship” 2023-11-19 7:11pm The Popehat Report Ken White 1,000 words Rated 2023-11-20 8:02pm
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the CraftJames Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft. 2023-11-13 3:00am The New Yorker James Somers 4,000 words Rated 2023-11-13 8:43pm
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OmegleRated 2023-11-8 5:42pm
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Seeing like a Banknewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 5,000 words Rated 2023-11-8 2:30pm
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Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer AccountsSurprised individuals and small-business owners can’t pay rent or make payroll, and no one ever explains what they did wrong. #Fraud #Money Laundering 2023-11-5 2:00am The New York Times Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-5 5:57pm
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Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't workingFrom GM to Tesla to Mercedes, execs across the auto industry are tempering expectations on electric vehicles. #Transportation 2023-10-26 9:43am Insider Alexa St. John, Nora Naughton ($) 500 words Rated 2023-11-2 11:20pm
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The Great Cash-for-Carbon HustleOffsetting is hailed as a fix for climate catastrophe—but the world’s biggest carbon firm, South Pole, sold millions of worthless credits to Gucci, Porsche, Nestlé, and many others. Heidi Blake reports. 2023-10-16 3:00am The New Yorker Heidi Blake 10,000 words Rated 2023-10-25 6:33am
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Twitter, Elon and the Indigo BlobThe line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-7-31 7:51am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20 2:58pm
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Please Pay For a Year of Nothingjoe-steel.com 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-19 5:24pm
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Opinion | Israel Has Never Needed to Be Smarter Than in This MomentIt would be a mistake to give Hamas what it wants: an overreaction like an invasion of Gaza. #Israel #Joe Biden #Middle East #Military #Politics #Terrorism 2023-10-10 2:58pm The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-12 10:25am
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How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it. 2023-10-1 5:30am The Verge Elizabeth Lopatto 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-8 6:16pm
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New talk: Making Hard Things EasyNew talk: Making Hard Things Easy Julia Evans 6,000 words Rated 2023-10-6 9:55pm
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Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony FinchRated 2023-10-5 10:25pm
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One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cyclingA cyclist discovered widespread cheating on the popular online cycling platform Zwift. Then came the death threats. 2023-9-22 9:50am The Hustle Katherine Laidlaw 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-26 9:31pm
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Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate ProtestersFor decades, the Atlas Network has used its reach and influence to spread conservative philosophy—and criminalize climate protest. 2023-9-12 12:00am The New Republic Amy Westervelt 4,000 words Rated 2023-9-23 10:43am
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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticedWas the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? 2012-4-27 2:04am The Week Alexander Cockburn 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-22 3:37pm
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George Eliot’s Subversive Vision of MarriageUnlike Jane Austen, the novelist was most interested in what happens after “I do.” #Marriage #United States 2023-9-7 4:00am The Atlantic Ann Hulbert ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-20 8:57am
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Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energyA road trip I took with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirmed one thing: The U.S. is wrestling with an inadequate charging network (unless you're a Tesla driver). 2023-9-10 3:00am NPR Camila Domonoske 4,000 words Rated 2023-9-17 8:44am
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Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer ★ The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue ThoughtI'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly … unremediatedgender.space Zack M. Davis 25,000 words Rated 2023-9-12 3:16pm
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Typical mind and gender identityOzy Frantz introduced zirself to me by saying that “I major in gender studies, but I am not that kind of gender studies student. Promise.” So far this claim has been entirely borne out … 2013-2-18 2:27pm Slate Star Codex 15,000 words Rated 2023-9-11 6:56pm
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The Berkeley Hotel hostageThe Bookseller is the incisive and independent source of news and analysis for the book trade and publishing industry. Get breaking news, in-depth features, author interviews and book charts. The Bookseller provides you with the intelligence you need to sell more books. The Bookseller 2,000 words Rated 2023-9-9 4:07pm
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Why “Alone” Is the Best Reality Show Ever MadeJay Caspian Kang writes about the appeal of the reality-TV show “Alone” and other shows about survival in the wilderness. #Nature #Survival #Television 2023-9-6 8:39am The New Yorker Jay Caspian Kang 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-6 9:18pm
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Debatable - TranscriptHow an outsider became the vanguard of a movement that made everything about debate debatable. #Art #Culture #Debate #Music #New York #Radio Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC Studios 10,000 words Rated 2023-9-4 4:55pm
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Can Plastic Recycling Ever Really Work?Many plastics that carry the “chasing arrows” symbol, like soda cups and yogurt tubs, are rarely recycled. A new California law is raising the bar. #California #Environment 2023-9-1 2:00am The New York Times Susan Shain ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-9-2 7:14pm
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Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?It’s not entirely clear who it’s for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem 2023-8-29 6:30am The Walrus Tajja Isen 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-31 10:42pm
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Meet Oliver Anthony: The New Voice of America’s Working ClassTwo weeks ago, nobody had heard of ‘Rich Men North of Richmond.’ Now the song is a symbol of forgotten America. The Free Press sits down with the man behind a movement. 2023-8-28 3:01am The Free Press Rupa Subramanya ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-8-28 11:47pm
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Reading the Yield CurveInfallible Recession Indicator? Noisy Signal? Both? #Business #Education and schools #Finance 2023-8-23 6:06am Capital Gains Byrne Hobart 1,000 words Rated 2023-8-27 2:56pm
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What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry, David Owen writes. 2023-8-14 3:00am The New Yorker David Owen 5,000 words Rated 2023-8-27 7:39am
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In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survivedAs flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a dash for safety 2023-8-22 9:53pm ABC News REBECCA BOONE, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, CLAUDIA LAUER and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press ... 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-26 8:13pm
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Have You Been to the Library Lately?Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence 2023-6-12 6:30am The Walrus Nicholas Hune-Brown 6,000 words Rated 2023-8-24 9:18pm
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Ask vs guess cultureWhen unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work. 2023-8-12 1:17pm Tech and Tea Jean Hsu 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-20 1:29am
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The Biggest Environmental Scandal In The WorldWatch now (44 secs) | Scientists, journalists, and the wind industry are behind the imminent extinction of the North Atlantic Right Whales. They should be ashamed of themselves. 2023-8-13 9:48am Public Michael Shellenberger ($) 500 words Rated 2023-8-18 9:24am
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I Was Wrong About Trigger WarningsHas the national obsession with trauma done real damage to teen girls? #Domestic Violence #Individual People #Mental Health #Mental Illness #Sexual Assault 2023-8-9 4:00am The Atlantic Jill Filipovic ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-13 11:07am
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Stop Using So Much Laundry DetergentStiff, scratchy laundry can be a sign you’re using too much detergent. Our experts weigh in on how much you should actually use. 2021-7-22 12:00am The New York Times Elissa Sanci 1,000 words Rated 2023-8-13 10:35am
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Credit card debt collectionCredit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons. #Debt collection 2023-8-11 12:18pm Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 5,000 words Rated 2023-8-13 12:17am
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Ivy-Plus colleges are a gateway to the eliteIs all this competition to get in really worth the effort? Probably, yes. 2023-7-25 3:02am Forked Lightning David Deming 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-11 7:09am
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I grew up loving The Bell Jar. Then I noticed how Sylvia Plath wrote about people that looked like meAfter revisiting Plath’s book in my early twenties, I ended up writing a novel of my own as a way of understanding the recognition and repulsion I felt 2023-8-8 8:00am The Guardian Guardian staff reporter 1,000 words Rated 2023-8-10 6:31am
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How to Optimize Your Pre-Workout Meal TimingAnalyzing glucose data from endurance athletes offers new(ish) insights, with the potential of more to come 2023-8-3 4:00am Outside Online Alex Hutchinson 1,000 words Rated 2023-8-8 10:24am
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What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard DrugsA bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned. #Criminal Justice System #Law Enforcement #Oregon 2023-7-19 7:30am The Atlantic Jim Hinch ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-8-1 7:06pm
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Conspiracy theory: Electric cars make more air pollution than gas carstires + battery + heavy 2023-7-27 9:00am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2023-7-30 10:08pm
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How critical theory is radicalizing high school debateNew rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists #Debate 2023-7-29 5:49am Slow Boring Maya Bodnick 3,000 words Rated 2023-7-29 10:28pm
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How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic StrongholdThe Governor’s strategy for revitalizing her state has two parts, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes. To grow, Michigan needs young people; to draw young people, it needs to have the social policies they want. 2023-7-17 3:00am The New Yorker Benjamin Wallace-Wells 6,000 words Rated 2023-7-28 10:08pm
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