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Literary Hub
43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language
Literary Hub
10 min · · Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language; it’s high time to do the same for short stories. But before we go any further, you may be asking: What do… · Shared by 202, including Jesse Baer (moved to mastodon), Esther Schindler, Christian Surchi, Brad Brooks
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Eater
There Really Is No Ethical Restaurant Under Capitalism
Eater
13+ min · · Building an equitable restaurant — where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination — will require undoing the way most restaurants are run · Shared by 42, including Christian Surchi
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The Atlantic
Herd Immunity Is Not a Strategy
The Atlantic
6 min · · What the term actually means, and what it doesn’t · Shared by 93, including Bill Hanage, Matthias Lampe, Yale University, Christian Surchi, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Michael Mina, Rick Powell, Natalie E. Dean, PhD, Timothy Caulfield
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VentureBeat
Why the connected car rides on open source
VentureBeat
3 min · · Connected cars require collaboration across auto makers, telcos, sensor-, infotainment-, and cloud-providers, and others. Fragmentation isn't an option. · Shared by 21, including Howard Getson, Christian Surchi, Wilko S. Wolters, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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The Guardian
White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says
The Guardian
4 min · · A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states · Shared by 146, including ❤️ Umair, Esther Schindler, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Katie Benner, Anne Thompson, Jennifer Ouellette, barb dybwad, David Austin Walsh, Perez Hilton, Brad Brooks, Jason Stanley, zeldman, anildash.com, Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social), Berrak Sarikaya, Hiroko Tabuchi, Mo Ryan, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Dave McClure, Ida Bae Wells
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OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
OneZero
Summary · · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it. · Shared by 433, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Thomas Pleil, Matthias Lampe, Gerd Leonhard, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Bill Johnston, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Psymposia, Tim Bray, Christian Surchi, Mathew Ingram, Josep M. Ganyet, Kyle Bunch, getAbstract, Michael Seemann, jérémie Flück, Ines Bieler, anildash.com
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The Correspondent
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
The Correspondent
17+ min · · Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of… · Shared by 694, including Sebastien Meunier, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Moritz Stefaner, Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Cope, Rob Wijnberg, Rutger Bregman, Jean-François Gariépy 🧬, tante, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦, Pixel, Nico Lumma, Josep M. Ganyet, Andreas Staub, Dr Catherine Breslin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Christopher D. Long
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The Guardian
An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!'
The Guardian
20+ min · · It was the late director Alan Parker’s most enduring hit, capturing what it was to be young and ambitious in the hot, gritty New York of 1980. The cast and crew reflect on the acting, fighting,… · Shared by 58, including Rick Powell, Alex Selby-Boothroyd, Peter Shankman, Keith Stuart, Christian Surchi
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Tedium | Follow us at @tedium@social.tedium.co
Why Your Dongle Junk Drawer Will Never Be Empty
Tedium | Follow us at @tedium@social.tedium.co
12+ min · · Pondering the many ways that dongles have taken over or lives, for better and for worse. One port will never rule them all, apparently. · Shared by 14, including Christian Surchi, Esther Schindler, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange
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Literary Hub
The Real Criminal Masterminds in America Aren’t Working the System—They Created It
Literary Hub
11+ min · · Corruption is as old as government. Yet the brazenness, the method, and the global spread of the practices that are sparking indignation today were last seen during the late 19th and early 20th cen… · Shared by 8, including Christian Surchi
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Scientific American
This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
Scientific American
12+ min · · A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality · Shared by 198, including Pascal Sulser, Jennifer Ouellette, Christian Surchi, Christian Fauteux
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Hakai Magazine
A Tuna’s Worth
Hakai Magazine
18+ min · · Bluefin tuna are a luxury that feeds the egos of many, the bellies of few. Inside a Canadian fishery that pursues them. · Shared by 7, including Christian Fauteux, Christian Surchi
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The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min · · We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace · Shared by 1074, including Oliver Reichenstein, Austin Kleon, Mathieu von Rohr, Robin Wigglesworth, emily bell, Michael Mina, Gary Marcus, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Iain Brown, PhD, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rick King, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Jim Marous 💯, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Guy Kawasaki, Yves Mulkers, AI