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Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by Georg…
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The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
On Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—aka nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.

764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation
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Masculist pushback: the threatened extinction of the great, white Judeo-Christian male
A political ideology rooted in fear is remaking the world in its own image and dragging us with it

#766: An AI company you can wear without socks
Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad …

#762: One weird trick to make new friends
Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet

#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…

100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell | East Bay Booksellers
Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.
#773: Regressing to the mean
Plus: slop wildlife, the post-American internet and AI for emotional labor

#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on A…
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other rad…

Analysis | The mysterious tyranny of trendy baby names
Why is every other kid these days named Mason, Grayson or Carson? We mined America’s biggest baby-name database to find the surprising answer.

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