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A White House plan to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, recently leaked, seems to heavily favor Putin’s interests. / BBC News, The Atlantic [$]
Ukraine prepares a first-ever claim for wartime damages linked to carbon emissions. / Reuters
Elmira Bayrasli: The urgency to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine is real—but it’s not the silencing of guns that cements peace. It’s political progress. / Interruptrr
Mariners from the ship that destroyed Maryland’s Key Bridge remain in limbo after 19 months. / The Baltimore Banner
California allows agricultural workers to be as young as 12—immigrants and US citizens toiling without shade, amongst chemicals, and not even for minimum wage. / Capital & Main
Unrelated: Photographs from a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital in the 1970s. / PetaPixel
Anecdotes from the ultra-rich regarding fees they pay to avoid mingling with non-wealthy people. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
“You want to turn them into a creator and not a consumer.” Interviews with so-called “screen-time coaches.” / The Washington Post [$]
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In 2023, 61% of 12th-grade girls said they were “most likely to choose to get married,” down from 83% in 1993. / The Up and Up
In praise of college radio’s “unpredictability, uniqueness, and random brilliance.” / The New York Times [$]
Unpacking a 450-pound “mystery pallet” packed with returned goods. / The Wirecutter
A new form of cross-country running in the United Kingdom involves humans being hunted by bloodhounds. / The Guardian
“You can spend an hour in one of these and feel as though Harry Potter is rigorous history.” In a long essay about consciousness, an argument for reading books about quantum physics (minus the math). / Harper’s
Deni Ellis Béchard: If AI intelligence is perceived as uneven and ours isn’t, it’s because we’ve set ourselves as the standard. / Scientific American
Did social media kill the “foodie” now that eating food is “too often only a prelude to posting?” / Yale Review
Watch: A brief profile of Italy’s oldest barista, still serving espresso at age 101. / PBS
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