Thought Provoking Reads
Provocative and interesting articles from around the web.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
Smash the Wellness Industry
7 min · · Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims? · Shared by 67, including Brittany Berger, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin, Florian Hanke 🍎, Lucy Moon 🌙, Carly, Martin Steiger 🦈, Tauno
WIRED
The WIRED Guide to Open Source Software
10 min · · Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux, GNU, and how big companies are making money off of free, collaboration-based software. · Shared by 65, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Oscar MacDonald, Open Source Initiative @osi@opensource.org, Marko Saric, Charles Baldwin, Leslie D
The New Yorker
What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
12+ min · · Vonnegut’s books argue about ideas of freedom and mourn the dead, from their first pages to their last. · Shared by 64, including Charles Baldwin, Steven Sinofsky
The Guardian
'It could change everything': coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
9 min · · Experts believe they may have found a Kilwa coin that could change what we know about the history of global trade · Shared by 60, including Tom Connor, Korben, 瑞拿頭, Charles Baldwin
Vox
Was Etsy too good to be true?
20+ min · · The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon. · Shared by 58, including David Nagel, Charles Baldwin, BigCommerce, #MuskOut (not parody)
POLITICO
How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil War
17+ min · · The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. But is it undermining its own side? · Shared by 58, including Mathew Ingram, luis antónio santos, Thomas Pleil, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Brad Brooks
The Atlantic
What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
20+ min · · A human-rights icon’s fall from grace in Myanmar · Shared by 55, including Howard Getson, Rick Powell, Charles Baldwin, Vikram Dutt, Felix M
The New York Times
The New German Anti-Semitism
20+ min · · For the nation’s estimated 200,000 Jews, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear. · Shared by 52, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Charles Baldwin, Nico Lumma
The New Yorker
The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
4 min · · The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. · Shared by 51, including luis antónio santos, Jane, Carly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Charles Baldwin, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The New York Times
Dementia Stopped a Major Artist From Painting. For Some, That Spelled a Lucrative Opportunity.
16+ min · · Now Peter Max’s associates are trading lurid allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut and art fraud on the high seas. · Shared by 51, including Liv 😷, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Rick Powell, Hi-Fructose, Liliane Ferrari ™, Charles Baldwin
The Irish Times
The life and tragic death of Trinity graduate and writer Sophie Hingst
12+ min · · The 31-year-old German blogger had denied claims that she invented 22 Holocaust victims in her family · Shared by 49, including Raphael Raue, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, David Cochrane, Christopher Lauer™, Christian P. Stobbe, Franziska Bluhm 💥, Armin Wolf, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Klaus Eck
LSE
Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution
Summary · 7 min · · The smartphone, internet and social media are reshaping economies and society in the 21st century on a par with Johannes Gutenberg’s revolutionary invention of the printing press six centuries ago. That machine brought automation, competition and mass production to the world of information, with enormous consequences for people’s daily lives. In this fascinating and insightful historical analysis, economist Jeremiah Dittmar and data scientist Skipper Seabold report on the profound changes wrought by the printing press and cast them as precedents for the scope of the digital transformation taking place in the 2000s. · Shared by 47, including Charles Baldwin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, getAbstract, Eric Ries
The New Republic
Fans Are Ruining Game of Thrones—And Everything Else
4 min · · How art and culture became captured by the logic of the consumer market · Shared by 42, including Charles Baldwin
The Outline
Apple owes everyone an apology and it should start with me, specifically
6 min · · Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake. · Shared by 42, including Charles Baldwin
The Atlantic
The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum
10 min · · A faction of the religious right has concluded that if liberal democracy does not guarantee victory, then it must be abandoned. · Shared by 41, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Katja Evertz, Charles Baldwin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Brad Brooks
The Guardian
Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden
20+ min · · The long read: Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The killer has never been found. Could the discovery of new evidence finally close the case? · Shared by 41, including Luca Like, Kiki, kate wagner (rilke era)