One to three million Uyghurs have been placed in Chinese “reeducation centers.” A comic about escaping one just won the Pulitzer.
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“Man the pilgrim.” “Man the greedy.” “The man who wants to understand.” Names our species has proposed for itself
↩︎ Futility Closet
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The White House is partnering with internet providers to offer high-speed service—at less than $30/month—to low-income Americans.
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Creepy/not creepy? Employers use software to scan corporate Slack chats for signs of burnout and mental distress.
↩︎ Morning Brew
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Since the dawn of the internet, forum posters have been striving to find new ways to call each other (and non-posters) obvious, basic, and easily led—in presumable contrast to the alluringly independent person doing…
A British documentarian, famous on the BBC, has become a TikTok star for rap verses he recorded 20 years ago.
↩︎ The Los Angeles Times
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A lovely, illustrated explanation in simple terms of how a mechanical watch works.
↩︎ Bartosz Ciechanowski
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A couple of friends and I did a project called Sounds of Silence, and had fun collecting any recordings of silence, from the beginning to the end of the record industry.
↩︎ The Guardian
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A 1714 Stradivarius played on “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is expected to break the Stradivarius sale record.
↩︎ Smithsonian Magazine
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