Quarterfinals of the 2019 Tournament of Books

The Rooster is alive! It's the quarterfinals in the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

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It's March! It's madness! It's the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes!
↩︎ The Tournament of Books 5d
A new gender-neutral voice for AI is based on two dozen people who identify as male, female, transgender, and non-binary.
↩︎ The Next Web 3h

For the Christchurch terrorist, dreams of being a cryptocurrency millionaire were probably just another cold joke.

Bitcoin ideology is not a neo-Nazi ideology. But sometimes it bears repeating.
↩︎ Foreign Policy
3h
Within baseball, it's believed that Mike Trout is "vastly underpaid"—at $430 million—relative to his performance value.
↩︎ The Washington Post 3h
A recent favorite website: Terrible Things Happening in Cold Places, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
↩︎ Terrible Things Happening in Cold Places 9h

A bill calling for the federal government to “study and consider” how to provide reparations to African Americans for slavery has been introduced into every session of the US Congress for the last thirty years.

The promise and the failure of reparation in the 1860s “should animate a return to reparations now.”
↩︎ The New York Review of Books
9h
Amazon removes some books publishing false information about vaccines. Civic responsibility or censorship?
↩︎ The Washington Post 9h
Europe gets its first underwater restaurant, where guests eat alongside marine wildlife in the Norwegian Sea.
↩︎ designboom 10h
A group of new city apps are good "for making yourself either more aware of your surroundings or just extremely paranoid."
↩︎ The New York Times 10h

“As with all regular service providers,” says Post, “you should consider your regular delivery person during your holiday thank-yous.”

Emily Post’s great-great-granddaughter publishes a book of “higher etiquette” for cannabis-related concerns.
↩︎ Quartzy
10h
A new Amnesty International report says US air strikes in Somalia—ramped up and ongoing—are killing civilians.
↩︎ The Intercept 10h
"Custom cancer vaccines." "Robot dexterity." Bill Gates chooses 10 breakthrough technologies to improve the world.
↩︎ MIT Technology Review 10h
A poll on WeChat finds 56% of respondents feeling "extremely sympathetic" after reading the Christchurch killer's manifesto.
↩︎ William Yang / Twitter 1d

Here's a video on how to make a cheesecake that looks like cheese. But it is also a weird, soothing demonstration of cooking with no narration, watched over by a pair of tiny toy mice.

H/t The Kid Should See This 

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"Buffet Buddhists" are Westerners who use the religion for their needs, not for worship.
↩︎ The Atlantic 1d
You can join the latest social-media trend in China for about five bucks: being showered with compliments by random people.
↩︎ CNBC 1d

Misogyny is so all-pervading and so alluring that we are more likely to take it for granted than we are to acknowledge it properly, or want to change it for something better.

A famous psychotherapist reviews a new book that demolishes the psychological explanations of misogyny.
↩︎ The London Review of Books
1d
Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck, from the University of Texas at Austin, is the first woman to win math's Abel Prize.
↩︎ Quanta Magazine 1d
Women, both educated and uneducated, were pivotal to liberation movements across Africa. They're mostly forgotten.
↩︎ Quartz 1d

In Francophone Africa, the term “alternance”, used as the demand for a transfer of power, shows a passionate commitment to the liberal-democratic norm of putting limits on the number of terms a president may serve. This has no equivalent in Europe and North America.

A new dictionary of African politics reveals insightful political terminology.
↩︎ The Conversation
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