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Staying Awake, by Ursula K. Le GuinNotes on the alleged decline of reading #United States 2008-01-31T16:00:21-0800 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-09-15T17:24:07-0700 - sethherr
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The Thin Purple Line, by Jasper CravenThe dubious rise of the private-security industry #9/11 #Crime #New York City #Surveillance 2024-07-23T12:22:18-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-09-15T17:06:27-0700 - sethherr
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the MediaGideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the tension between Scott Alexander, of the rationalist blog Slate Star Codex, and the New York Times. #Journalism #New York Times #Silicon Valley #Social Media 2020-07-09T08:10:18-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 5,000 words Rated 2024-07-16T14:10:04-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | I Study Homelessness. I Wish More Places Looked Like This Shelter.Matthew Desmond takes you to a shelter designed with residents in mind. #Homelessness #Jobs #Pennsylvania #Poverty 2024-06-26T02:02:13-0700 The New York Times Matthew Desmond, Jillian Weinberger ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-06-27T10:31:23-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?Infected with ideological purity, the West Coast is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes. #California #Homelessness #Mental Health #Oregon #Politics 2024-06-15T04:00:48-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-21T09:07:10-0700 - sethherr
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Not Your Childhood LibraryPaige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space. #Homelessness #Libraries #Minnesota 2024-05-23T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Paige Williams 4,000 words Rated 2024-06-14T17:50:26-0700 - sethherr
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building ThemThe state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit. #Climate Change #Colorado #Global Warming #Transportation 2024-05-31T02:00:29-0700 The New York Times Megan Kimble 3,000 words Rated 2024-06-01T17:50:32-0700 - sethherr
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This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten program. Test scores fell even furtherThis Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten. Test scores fell even further #LGBTQ+ #Maryland #San Francisco 2024-02-03T04:00:00-0800 San Francisco Chronicle Jill Tucker 1,000 words Rated 2024-04-17T23:08:49-0700 - sethherr
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‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-01-20T13:35:53-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-01-22T18:03:33-0800 - sethherr
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Opinion | Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and WinningHouston demonstrates what should be obvious: that a wealthy society doesn’t have to accept as inevitable throngs of people sleeping on sidewalks. #Dallas #Homelessness #Housing #Jobs #Mental Health #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-22T16:00:19-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof, Rahim Fortune ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-24T08:15:09-0800 - sethherr
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The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your LandAmid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. #Detroit #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-12T00:00:52-0800 The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-14T07:52:48-0800 - sethherr
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How Montreal Built a Blueprint for Bargain Rapid TransitAt $139 million per mile, the REM is far less costly than similar recent projects. Cities with ballooning transit budgets can learn from its approach. #Business #City #Government #Infrastructure #Los Angeles #New York 2023-10-30T06:00:16-0700 Bloomberg 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-05T22:46:59-0800 - sethherr
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Your Project Management Software Can't Save YouDo-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s. #Labor #programming #Silicon Valley #Startups #Work 2023-10-01T03:00:00-0700 WIRED Matt Alston 2,000 words Rated 2023-10-04T08:54:16-0700 - sethherr |
After FBI busts Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC, six more exposed in USAfter the FBI arrested “Harry” Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, charging them with illegally opening a Chinese government "police station" to spy on Chinese nationals in New York, a human rights groups says there are other stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and US other cities. #China #Los Angeles #Minnesota #Nebraska #New York City #San Francisco #Spying 2023-04-18T15:23:59-0700 New York Post Isabel Vincent 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-24T20:44:49-0700 - sethherr
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OG Food Blogger Deb Perelman Can’t Stand 'Spa Water'New York chef Deb Perelman makes dishes that are accessible to all, and she has a plethora of opinions on how to achieve that standard. #Chef #Food & drink #New York culturedmag.com 3,000 words Rated 2023-09-20T09:19:56-0700 - elll |
George Eliot’s Subversive Vision of MarriageUnlike Jane Austen, the novelist was most interested in what happens after “I do.” #Marriage #United States 2023-09-07T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ann Hulbert ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-09-20T08:57:21-0700 - sethherr
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One day after suing Open AI, Michael Chabon and other authors sue MetaOne day after suing Open AI, Michael Chabon and other authors sue Meta overf its LLaMa chatbot #Facebook #San Francisco #Twitter 2023-09-12T11:36:55-0700 San Francisco Chronicle Chase DiFeliciantonio 500 words Rated 2023-09-18T07:53:18-0700 - sethherr |
In the Gritty Tenderloin, Signs of Rebirth Emerge in Small StretchesThe San Francisco neighborhood has become a punching bag for critics of the city, but there are reasons to hope for a better future. #California 2023-09-07T06:00:17-0700 The New York Times Thomas Fuller ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-09-09T15:48:13-0700 - sethherr
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Debatable - TranscriptHow an outsider became the vanguard of a movement that made everything about debate debatable. #Art #Culture #Debate #Music #New York #Radio Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC Studios 10,000 words Rated 2023-09-04T16:55:13-0700 - sethherr
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Can Plastic Recycling Ever Really Work?Many plastics that carry the “chasing arrows” symbol, like soda cups and yogurt tubs, are rarely recycled. A new California law is raising the bar. #California #Environment 2023-09-01T02:00:24-0700 The New York Times Susan Shain ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-09-02T19:14:44-0700 - sethherr
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The Fourteenth Amendment FantasyThe Constitution won’t disqualify Trump from running. The only real-world way of stopping him is through the ballot box. #Civil War #United States 2023-08-29T04:30:00-0700 The Atlantic David Frum ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-09-01T18:34:46-0700 - sethherr
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What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard DrugsA bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned. #Criminal Justice System #Law Enforcement #Oregon 2023-07-19T07:30:00-0700 The Atlantic Jim Hinch ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-08-30T15:28:31-0700 - Jaog
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GOP candidates fight each other -- and mostly line up behind Trump -- at first debateThe Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought -- sometimes bitterly – over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine and the future of the party during the first primary debate of the 2024 campaign. But on what is arguably the most consequential choice facing the party, virtually all lined up behind Trump, saying they would support the former president if he is their nominee, even if he is convicted in a series of cases. It was... #2023 GOP debate #Abortion #Donald Trump #Elections #Iowa #Ukraine 2023-08-22T21:01:06-0700 AP News JILL COLVIN, SARA BURNETT, JONATHAN J. COOPER 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-23T23:55:57-0700 - estew |
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on 1st GOP debate and Trump's plan to skip itNPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including the first Republican debate of the primary season and former President Donald Trump's decision to skip it as he leads in the polls and is set for processing in a Georgia jail. #2023 GOP debate #Georgia #Politics #Wisconsin 2023-08-21T15:25:35-0700 PBS NewsHour 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-23T23:55:29-0700 - estew |
The Anti-CaliforniaHow Montana performed a housing miracle #Individual People #Montana #San Francisco 2023-08-09T08:02:00-0700 The Atlantic Annie Lowrey ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-17T05:17:17-0700 - sethherr
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The Dictator Myth That Refuses to DieAuthoritarians would have you think that they can do certain things better than their counterparts who have to deal with checks, balances, and public opinion. Don’t believe it. #United States 2023-07-26T07:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Brian Klaas ($) 200 words Rated 2023-07-27T09:43:13-0700 - sethherr
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How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and PragmatismThe privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots? #Politics #Silicon Valley 2023-07-23T04:00:00-0700 WIRED Kai Ye 2,000 words Rated 2023-07-25T16:13:25-0700 - sethherr
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S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’ What is the city’s plan?San Francisco officials say driverless taxi incidents by Cruise, Waymo are 'skyrocketing.' What is the city's plan to address the growing problem? #California #New York Times #Twitter #Uber 2023-07-14T04:00:00-0700 San Francisco Chronicle Ricardo Cano 1,000 words Rated 2023-07-14T19:06:01-0700 - sethherr
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Reclaiming Real American PatriotismThis Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it. #New Hampshire #New York #West Virginia 2023-07-04T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Tom Nichols ($) 500 words Rated 2023-07-05T07:48:26-0700 - sethherr
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Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water to grow alfalfa amid droughtForeign-owned farms are shipping the crop to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal to grow because it takes too much water. #Arizona #Saudi Arabia 2023-04-20T07:39:00-0700 CBS News Ben Tracy 500 words Rated 2023-06-20T07:16:59-0700 - sethherr
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Moneyball Broke BaseballBut now the whiz kids who nearly ruined the national pastime have returned to save it. #New York 2023-06-06T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Mark Leibovich ($) 8,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T23:34:55-0700 - sethherr
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The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good ProductA one-hit wonder is never enough. #United States 2023-06-14T15:30:00-0700 The Atlantic Amanda Mull ($) 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-16T22:21:09-0700 - sethherr
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What Does ‘Buying American’ Even Mean?In a globalized economy, the definition of “buying American” is becoming quite cloudy—and so are the consequences of policies designed to encourage it. #Buy American 2019-07-03T00:00:00-0700 The New York Times Tim Heffernan 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-11T10:03:39-0700 - Jaog
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