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Staff writer at the New Yorker. Jes Grew Carrier.
https://www.julianlucas.com
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I dove to the wreck of Brazilâs last slave shipâand wrote about the global network of maritime archaeologists excavating the Middle Passage
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecksâand reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/dredging-up-the-ghostly-secrets-of-slave-ships
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Philip Eil
about 12 hours ago
Quite a headline.
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdaniâs supposedly radical policies as ânormalâ
Critics of New York Cityâs mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe itâs a given
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal?CMP=share_btn_url
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The New Yorker
1 day ago
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary âRovinaâs Choiceâ tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Condé Union
1 day ago
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. Weâve filed a grievance.
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Perry Areolar
4 days ago
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"
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Zito
10 days ago
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Platoâs allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillardâs theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Platoâs theory but is not the same
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Howard French
6 days ago
What kind of fresh hell is this? Trump is taking white, Christian nationalism to... Nigeria, with the world's largest Black population. (Read the quotes.)
www.ft.com/content/d0c7...
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Donald Trump threatens Nigeria with military action over violence against Christians
US conservatives have alleged Islamist insurgents in the country are carrying out a genocide
https://www.ft.com/content/d0c7c8e8-a7d4-48a6-b263-5006a2632159
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âWikipedia has proven itself to be incredibly resilient because it is a project that specifically leans into the shared wisdom and collaboration of humanity . . . That is something that an LLM will never be able to compete with.â
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Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the worldâs wealthiest man.
https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01K8XRMWM75SMSD35JQXCYKSGH&_kx=3UX9P-lUeCQNnee25pczXNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER
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Nitish Pahwa
7 days ago
the absolute king
youtu.be/cQPFijGyZ_E
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Brian Goldstone
8 days ago
Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million peopleâto have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"âis simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*
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Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/food-stamps-shutdown.html
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8 days ago
Iâm not a believer but I very much believe in the power of Alice Coltraneâs work. In the new
@nybooks.com
I write her musical and spiritual journey.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane | Adam Shatz
Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/20/alice-coltrane-monument-eternal/
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Prisonculture
8 days ago
Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.
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jeff
3 months ago
Makaya McCraven âą 4 EPs: The People's Mixtape / Techno Logic / PopUp Shop / Hidden Out! October 31 âą International Anthem
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
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Carl T. Bergstrom
10 days ago
Don't know if any of you have ever been tempted to use Evernote, but any company that eliminates their free tier AND makes current users subscribe to extract their own data is little better than a protection racket in my book.
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Molly Crabapple
10 days ago
âThe elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thoughtâ
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes usâand it is currently changing us for the worse.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
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Thomas Frampton
11 days ago
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
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Rolling Stone
11 days ago
Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davisâ electric period band and one of Rolling Stoneâs 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time, has died at age 83. Access the free article here:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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As the Trump administration pushes for the restoration of Confederate monuments, Kara Walker has turned one an undead centaur. My review of âMonuments,â an extraordinary show that juxtaposes the lies of the Lost Cause with the black histories they eclipse
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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As the Trump administration pushes for the restoration of Confederate monuments, Kara Walker has turned one an undead centaur. My review of âMonuments,â an extraordinary show that juxtaposes the lies of the Lost Cause with the black histories they eclipse
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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lauren
15 days ago
well this kicks ass
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Continent
15 days ago
Building up: The annual replastering of the Djinguereber Mosque, also known as Djingareyber, in Timbuktu. It was erected in the 14th century during the reign of Mansa Kankou Moussa and is 700 years old. Photo: Hameye Capii/AFP
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Lydia Polgreen
16 days ago
The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/gaza-ceasefire-death-toll.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vk8.Himy.oEGTXszQgaNl&smid=url-share
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Jessica Ritchey
22 days ago
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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404 Media
25 days ago
A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration. đ
www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
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âSave Our Signsâ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
https://www.404media.co/save-our-signs-preservation-project-launches-archive-of-10-000-national-park-signs/
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
25 days ago
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Michael Schulman
26 days ago
I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life!
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Tim Curry Does the Time Warp
The actor and singer discusses the origins of âThe Rocky Horror Picture Show,â his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/tim-curry-does-the-time-warp
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
28 days ago
What happened at the ICE facility today? Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.
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Danny K
about 1 month ago
WATCH: âPortland Frogâ pepper balled by ICE agents
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Nitish Pahwa
29 days ago
yeah uh not sure this Nobel Peace Prize is the anti-Trump dunk so many people seem to believe it is
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Stephen Totilo
about 1 month ago
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassinâs Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
https://www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening
www.404media.co/google-calls...
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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App âRed Dotâ
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/
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Naomi Klein
about 1 month ago
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: âPeople of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israelâs genocide, Israelâs illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israelâs use of starvation as a weapon.â 1/3
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Jason Koebler
about 1 month ago
america, baby: someone shot the internet
www.404media.co/a-bullet-cra...
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A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas
A âstray bulletâ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.
https://www.404media.co/a-bullet-crashed-the-internet-in-texas/
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Seth Cotlar
about 1 month ago
Good night and good luck everyone.
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âGoogle Translate, for instance, says the Fulfulde word for January means June, while ChatGPT says itâs August or September.â AI-translated Wikipedia articles are putting small languages in a âlinguistic doom loop.â Great!
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral
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The New Yorker
about 1 month ago
By inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee unleashed everything from A.I. slop to tech monopolies. Can the 70-year-old computer scientist rescue his creation from the forces that now dominate it?
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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Internet Archive
about 1 month ago
As announced in
@newyorker.com
, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will receive the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it
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I profiled Sir Tim, the mild-mannered Pandora who invented the Web, and asked about his plans to save us from Big Tech. (They involve a trustworthy chatbot named âCharlie.â) Read to find out what went wrong between dot-com utopianism and âMechaHitlerâ
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it
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Noah Shachtman
about 1 month ago
Perfect, 10/10
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 2 months ago
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itâremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/
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maya cade
about 2 months ago
happy autumn equinox from me and prince rogers nelson.
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Lydia Polgreen
about 2 months ago
I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
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Opinion | The Fallout From Charlie Kirkâs Killing Reveals Two Truths of Trumpism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/kirk-killing-trans-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.jk2W.rTW__6lxKhIl&smid=url-share
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Howard French
about 2 months ago
The new Monroe Doctrine.
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Internet Archive
about 2 months ago
Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click. New from
@mariabustillos.com
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404 Media
about 2 months ago
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence âcontinues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremismâ in the United States. đ
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirkâs assassination and the Trump administrationâs promise to go after the âradical leftâ a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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Karen Attiah
about 2 months ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me â But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America â and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
Chicago folks, the Art Institute's exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett's work is open and I highly encourage you to visit. I saw the exhibition 3 times when it was at the Brooklyn Museum. You will thank me later.
www.artic.edu/articles/121...
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Meet Elizabeth Catlett in 11 Facts | The Art Institute of Chicago
For Elizabeth Catlett, art was activism.
https://www.artic.edu/articles/1211/meet-elizabeth-catlett-in-11-facts?qTTw5r-LS_2nPazv_UhQ_aem_guk-7vWFJA_a9pul6ZmTIQ
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David Klion
about 2 months ago
For
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Disgruntled NYT journalist to âanti-wokeâ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?
After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into a unshakeable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trumpâs ally among media elit...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/bari-weiss-cbs
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maya cade
2 months ago
a really wonderfully considered piece from
@nymag.com
. cultural criticism is the heartbeat of american cultural production and its history. the form gives tangibility to how we remember and how critique brings us to a place of societal bettermentâŠ. there is no life worth living without it.
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Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/do-media-organizations-even-want-cultural-criticism.html
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