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A good guide to reducing your digital threats by 90%—and “you don’t need a burner phone, a secret boot USB, or anything else.”

↩︎ Ars Technica

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“Resilience workers” are people who do repair after disasters—a new link between climate change and labor exploitation.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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Push and pull on Vox Conversations with John McWhorter, author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America, for whom antiracism “functions more like a religion than an ideology or a political project. And its adherents are obsessed with ‘performing’ virtue, not for the sake of societal change but because of the sense of purpose it offers them.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates writes this article, and people are writing about it as if it was the second coming. And it wasn’t that I was thinking, “Oh, this isn’t that good.” I was just thinking, “Why are people acting as if he’s opening up a discussion that we’ve never had before, or that was only had, say, 40 or 50 years ago?” And I realized, “Okay, you see, it was scripture.” People were reading it not as something new — they weren’t learning from it. He was saying something they already knew well. And I thought to myself, “That’s interesting. To them, that article is like reading from the New Testament.”

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The Lenna image has become relatively unknown, but remains an icon in the engineering world. Lena Forsén still does not consent.

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“A rainforest? In Britain? What?” Interview with a mapper of Britain’s temperate rainforests.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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“A rainforest? In Britain? What?” Interview with a mapper of Britain’s temperate rainforests.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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Migratory western monarchs are showing up at overwintering sites in greater numbers despite reaching an all-time low last year.

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