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Claiming the summit without reaching the top
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/sports/tallest-mountain-summit.html
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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/68918/gisele-pelicot-person-of-the-year
By insisting that her mass rape trial was held in the open, Pelicot has gifted others with real hope for change
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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 Management Singularity
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity
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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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favorite books i read in 2024: challenger
https://www.yatima.org/archives/2024/12/26/favorite-books-i-read-in-2024-challenger/
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Sleeping Women
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/sophie-smith/sleeping-womenue
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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's Hollywood feud allegedly involved a smear campaign and 'astroturfing' - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-astroturfing/104761210
In a social media ecosystem already rife with misogyny, racism and aggression, experts say it's remarkably easy to shape the narrative around a public figure through "astroturfing".
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Blind and Sighted People Understand Color Similarly - Arts & Sciences Magazine
https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2021/10/blind-and-sighted-people-understand-color-similarly/
Krieger School researchers have found that like any sighted person, those born blind understand two bananas are likely to be the same color and why.
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TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-mascs-and-two-steve-feminism/
In which A Man has an Opinion about Feminism, with Mixed Results.
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LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/lgbtq-people-are-not-going-back/
On identity politics and unreasonable demands.
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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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Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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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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Mark Zuckerberg Is at War With Himself - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/mark-zuckerberg-free-expression/681238/
Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.
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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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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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As Australia's reliance on imported blood plasma grows, the ethics of paid donation are back in focus - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-07/donating-blood-plasma-money-red-cross-supply/103923554
Australia imported hundreds of millions of dollars in plasma products from overseas last year to make up a national shortfall.
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I Fell For Justin Baldoni’s Act — And His Smear Campaign
https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-fell-for-act-118745786
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Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni: What these men reveal about a particular celebrity obsession.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/neil-gaiman-end-of-male-feminist-baldoni.html
This ignominious crew of famous men seemed to align with women against sexist oppression in public as they mistreated women in private.
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The assault on DEI? It's aimed at resegregation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/dei-gop-segregation/
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Mark Zuckerberg Has a Funny Idea of What It Is to Be a Man
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/opinion/zuckerberg-masculine-energy-rogan-trump.html
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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? - The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’ time.
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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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