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21 May 2019, 03:27

Why copying the populist right isn’t going to save the left Social democratic parties have been losing ground for more than two decades – but pandering to rightwing anxieties about immigration is not the solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/14/why-copying-the-populist-right-isnt-going-to-save-the-left

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Why copying the populist right isn’t going to save the left

The long read: Social democratic parties have been losing ground for more than two decades – but pandering to rightwing anxieties about immigration is not the solution

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21 May 2019, 02:27

The Top 0.5% Underpay $50 Billion a Year In Taxes and Crushed the IRS Plan to Stop Them
https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits

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The Top 0.5% Underpay $50 Billion a Year In Taxes and Crushed the IRS Plan to Stop Them — ProPublica

Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.

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21 May 2019, 01:27

The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones: It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological | A fascinating essay that has societal implications far beyond a mere television show
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/?redirect=1

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r/Longreads - The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones: It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological | A fascinating essay that has societal implications far beyond a mere television show

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21 May 2019, 00:27

Walking Time Bomb The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/stacy-title-director-walking-time-bomb.html

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Walking Time Bomb

The director Stacy Title has ALS, which has left her paralyzed and unable to speak. But she is determined to make one final movie, Walking Time Bomb, with her husband Jonathan Penner.

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20 May 2019, 23:27

The complicated business of selling the NYPD logo The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/13/18534592/nypd-police-logo-trademark-lawsuit-los-angeles

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The complicated business of selling the NYPD logo

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?

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20 May 2019, 22:27

Security cameras and barbed wire: Living amid fear and oppression in Xinjiang
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/08/asia/uyghur-xinjiang-china-kashgar-intl/index.html

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Security cameras and barbed wire: Living amid fear and oppression in Xinjiang

The small bedroom is frozen in time. The two little girls who used to sleep here disappeared along with their mother more than two years ago.

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20 May 2019, 21:27

Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild He called himself the Tiger King and plastered his face on highway billboards in Texas and Oklahoma. He bred big cats, bears, baboons, and more.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/joe-exotic-a-dark-journey-into-the-world-of-a-man-gone-wild/

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Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild

He called himself the Tiger King and plastered his face on highway billboards in Texas and Oklahoma. He bred big cats, bears, baboons, and more. He lived, with a parade of partners, on the grounds of his private zoo. He threatened a rival with murder—repeatedly, on YouTube—and tried to hire a hit ma...

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20 May 2019, 20:27

Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California The Golden State is ignoring a history of violence against Native Americans.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.7/tribal-affairs-indigenous-educators-fight-for-an-accurate-history-of-california-missions?src=longreads

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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California

The Golden State is ignoring a history of violence against Native Americans.

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20 May 2019, 19:27

The Curse of Xanadu
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

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The Curse of Xanadu

It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.

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He Trots the Air The end was coming for Roany, a strong and beautiful horse who’d been at the center of Pam Houston’s life for 25 years. What she wanted for him was simple: a peaceful exit, lifted by the touch of human hands.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2395158/pam-houston-horse-death

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He Trots the Air

Roany was more than just a horse to Pam Houston. He kept the whole barnyard calm, including the other animals and the humans.

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20 May 2019, 17:27

The Peculiar Blindness of Experts - Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

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The Peculiar Blindness of Experts

Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.

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20 May 2019, 16:27

WHY I (STILL) LOVE TECH: IN DEFENSE OF A DIFFICULT INDUSTRY
https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry/

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Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.

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20 May 2019, 15:27

Hungary and the Future of Europe
https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/hungary-and-the-future-of-europe/

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Hungary and the Future of Europe

Viktor Orbán's escalating conflict with liberalism.

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20 May 2019, 14:27

18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour A trip to Selma, Alabama, drew a number of officials from states with controversial voting requirements.
https://www.propublica.org/article/voting-officials-take-civil-rights-tour

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“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour

A trip that included a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, drew a number of officials from states with controversial voting requirements.

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20 May 2019, 13:27

‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html

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‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers

Thousands of immigrants who were chasing the dream of owning a New York taxi were trapped in reckless loans by bankers who made huge profits, The Times found.

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20 May 2019, 12:27

The cure for your next infection may come from sewage As antibiotics become less effective, viruses found in dirty places may save our lives instead.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/14/18618618/phage-therapy-antibiotic-resistance

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The cure for your next infection may come from sewage

As antibiotics become less effective, viruses found in dirty places may save our lives instead.

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20 May 2019, 11:27

The Curious Rise and Spectacular Crash of the Alliance of American Football What happens when you launch a sports league that’s really a tech startup, with a nebulous mission, shaky funding and a killer app promising more than it delivered?
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/04/30/alliance-american-football-aaf-collapse-charlie-ebersol-tom-dundon

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Inside the Collapse of the AAF

The inside story of how the football startup with Silicon Valley dreams crashed and burned before it could finish a single season.

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