Life needs to be shared

Israel's Netanyahu vows to continue the Gaza attack despite widespread pressure to reach a ceasefire. Perhaps he fears losing power? / Al Jazeera, Haaretz

Israel's influential far right ministers want to resettle Gaza and exclude Palestinians. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

A pediatrician visiting Gaza calls it "a sea of human tragedy." / The New Yorker

Project 2025 lays out its plans to restrict or ban abortion via executive action if Trump wins reelection. / Politico

Related: The Biden campaign is finally talking about abortion. / The Cut

Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed worldwide demand. / Scientific American

An investigation finds hundreds of food brands—from Frosted Flakes to Gold Medal flour—tied to unpaid (or barely paid) prison labor. / The Associated Press

Every 11 or so years, the sun's magnetic poles reverse—and we're just about due for a flip. / Vox

Latif Nasser: We don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club. / X

From a long, in-depth review of Apple's new Vision Pro: "I've come to agree with what Tim Cook has been saying for so long: headsets are inherently isolating." / The Verge

"Life needs to be shared." Interviews with people who hosted their own "living funerals." / The Guardian

Some notes from a conference of ghost writers. "Former editors, former journalists, former mid-list writers—they'd probably be working at Starbucks." / The New York Times [+]

Making the argument against taking mirror selfies inside bathrooms if toilets are visible. / Blackbird Spyplane


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