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Protesters in Israel begin a "day of resistance to dictatorship," following weeks of demonstrations against the government's plans to overhaul the judiciary. / TIME
Staff working for a United States Senator decide to unionize. / Quartz
A researcher appears to have tracked the location of a former top White House official through his usage of the AllTrails app. / VICE
Among big cities, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles have the most super-rich homeowners. / Bloomberg
The amount of concrete produced each year exceeds the weight of all the biomass we use annually. / Heatmap
Unrelated: A Tokyo house design inspired by Ghost in a Shell. / Spoon & Tamago
Ethan Zuckerman: Elon Musk may be one of the year's lamest humans, but a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular dystrophy may be one of the best. / My Heart's In Accra
Kevin Kelly: Most inventions and innovations are co-invented multiple times, simultaneously and independently. / Noahpinion
The CEO of OpenAI invested $180 million into a company hoping to add 10 years to the average human lifespan. / MIT Technology Review
A new study suggests that over half of the people buying iPhones, iPads, and Macs are 35 and under. / InsideHook
Thanks partly to TikTok, sales of romance and saga fiction in Britain have risen by 110% in three years. / The Economist
What it's like to attend London's Royal Opera House on a £1 ticket. "It seems that I have paid to be bloody miles away." / VAN Magazine
Last but not least, the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, is now live! Join us for a ton of book fun each weekday through March. / The Tournament of Books
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