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California Governor Gavin Newsom says "there's no fire season—it's fire year." / The Los Angeles Times

A climate reporter in Pacific Palisades relates what it was like to lose her home. Similar: watching your home burn on a Ring camera. / New York Magazine, Curbed

Bandsplain's Yasi Salek pays emotional tribute to her burned house in Altadena. / Instagram

From 2022, a profile of the billionaire couple who use 150 billion gallons of California's water each year. / More Perfect Union

Homeowners in risky parts of California can't obtain adequate coverage as insurers flee the state. / Bloomberg

Some of the world's biggest shipping nations back a flat tax on the industry's carbon emissions. / Semafor

"I knew nothing much about geopolitics before I left home." Interview with a war photographer. / China Underground

Remembering the panic over "political correctness" as a major American export in the 1980s and 1990s. / Slate

People in the US, UK, and Australia say they've noticed a rise in "flaking." / The Guardian

At the end of December, nearly 23 percent of people tested positive for norovirus in a sampling of clinical laboratories around the US. / Vox

Louisa Thomas explains why Magnus Carlsen, the best chess player in the world, got in trouble for wearing jeans to a tournament. / The New Yorker

Related: Jimmy Carter projected authenticity through denim. / The New York Times [+]

Unrelated: Photographs of Georgia O'Keefe at home. / The Atlantic

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