The Morning News

Drawings by Katie Evans of "feminine figures and objects in undefined spaces."

↩︎ Booooooom 14h

"Our way of consuming is completely out of order." Photographer Daniel Stier explains how to turn junk into art.

↩︎ It's Nice That 14h

With "climate apartheid" on the horizon, human rights experts are realizing that human rights may not survive the climate crisis.

↩︎ BBC News 15h

One proposal to reduce plastic packaging: toiletry products packaged in soap.

↩︎ Arts Thread 15h

In the Robert Kraft case, it's women who are being punished, while a wealthy white guy simply gets "another thread" in his story.

↩︎ Deadspin 15h

“The important question as a policy matter is what separates a dark pattern from good old-fashioned advertising. It’s a notoriously difficult line to find—what’s permissible persuasion vs wrongful manipulation.”

“Dark patterns” are techniques that e-commerce sites use to manipulate you psychologically into buying more stuff.

↩︎ The New York Times

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Two neighborhoods in Chicago, Streeterville and Englewood, have the most divergent life expectancy of any US city.

↩︎ The Guardian 15h

For a host of small-town French mayors, a rooster's right to crow—even if tourists are annoyed—is a national cause.

↩︎ The New York Times 15h

The question isn't "when will the Himalayan ice sheets be gone?" It's "what is the impact from such rapid disappearance?"

↩︎ The New Yorker 15h

To build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering, arrange the deck into a series of cascading triggers.

↩︎ Ars Technica 1d

Amazon is rife with counterfeit books. With few options to fight back, publishers may come to rely on Amazon as a wholesaler.

↩︎ Vox 1d

A dive into the '80s South African political prog of the Kalahari Surfers.

↩︎ Bandcamp 1d

A breakdown of the US companies China still needs (chipmakers) and those it's replaced (everything on the internet).

↩︎ Bloomberg 1d

On Ocracoke Island, 34 miles off the Carolina coast, you'll hear something closer to Elizabethan than American English—for now.

↩︎ BBC 1d

Don't blame the measles crisis on anti-vaxxers: Global healthcare and wealth inequality have a bigger effect on vaccination rates.

↩︎ Slate 1d

Perhaps we can appreciate the moon landing conspiracy for what it was: a mostly harmless piece of entertainment that possibly also led to the normalization of conspiracies in general, which is harmful.

Conspiracy theorizing about why conspiracy theories about the moon landing persist.

↩︎ Vox

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"Prior to the 1840s, abortion was widespread and not illegal." John Irving on the history of anti-abortionists in America.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

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↩︎ TMN Membership 1d

Recalling the impromptu post-Beatles jam session with John and Paul in 1974, which was nearly good, until the cocaine.

↩︎ Longreads 1d

From YouTube’s 2,000 hours of video uploaded every minute to Facebook-Weibo’s three billion daily updates, there was no scalable way to carefully examine the contributions of every user and assess whether they violated any of these new laws.

Cory Doctorow speculates on the effects of highly regulated social and personal media.

↩︎ The New York Times

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