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The Banality of Zionism
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-zionism/
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
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The Bleak Spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/the-bleak-spectacle-of-the-amber
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) – Eruditorum Press
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cuddled-little-vice-sandman
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a magical one with Grant Morrison. That story continues in Book Three. This, meanwhile, is a new epilogue
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The End of Children | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/the-population-implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.
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The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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The Job Market Is Frozen - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/
Unemployment is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t hiring. What’s going on?
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The Management Singularity
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity
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Broken
The Most Unsettling Inscription I've Ever Found on the Inside Cover of a Used Book, Bar None
https://thechatner.com/p/the-most-unsettling-inscription-ive
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
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The sound of three hands clapping: Further comments on why we need to rid ourselves of two-party politics
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-three-hands-clapping
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The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-tomb-of-dragons/
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind, by Dan Davies
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9781788169547
The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about what people get right and wrong when they criticize D.E.I., or diversity, equity, and inclusion, initiatives in the workplace.
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They Cannot Conquer For Ever | Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/they-cannot-conquer-for-ever/
American Indian Movement flag, Wounded Knee, 1988 (Source) I have not talked much about the election on here this year because I had very little of interest to say. I was hoping Harris would win. I think Trump was a bad president before, and will be a worse one now. I had a very bad…
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They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
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This Man is a Coward.
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/
This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.
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True Crime Mystery: Solving a 50-Year-Old Murder Case in New York
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-mystery-murder-the-scene-new-york-1235156741/
The Scene was the hottest club in New York. After it closed, a teen girl’s remains were discovered inside, leaving authorities with a puzzle to solve.
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Trump Can Be Stopped
https://www.readthedetox.com/p/trump-can-be-stopped
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Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
In Teen Vogue’s special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
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Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
How self-promotion became the new networking.
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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian, Lauren Collins writes.
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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