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Feb 1
The Profile Dossier: Tom Brady, the Greatest Quarterback of All Time
by Polina Pompliano“If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.”.theprofile.substack.com · Feb 1 · Published: Feb 3, 2021 · Article
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A Vast Web of Vengeance (Published 2021)
by Kashmir HillOutrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.nytimes.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 30, 2021 · Article
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A Hall of Fame Lawyer, a ‘Real Housewife’ and a Stunning Fall (Published 2021)
by Matthew GoldsteinOne of the country’s premier “toxic tort” lawyers is accused of misappropriating money from families of victims of the Lion Air crash that led to the...nytimes.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 13, 2021 · Article
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Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition Ultimate Beginner's Guide
by Cale HuntGetting you through the Dark Age.windowscentral.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 6, 2021 · Article
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Toni Morrison on the Body as an Instrument of Joy, Sanity, and Self-Love
by Maria Popova“Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them… Love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up… Love your heart. For this is...themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 3, 2021 · Article
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Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit - Full Fact
by Full FactThe MHRA could have given the Pfizer vaccine the same emergency approval when the UK was in the EU.fullfact.org · Feb 1 · Published: Dec 4, 2020 · Article
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Bitcoin Privacy
by Dan Held“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like arguing that you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to...theheldreport.com · Feb 1 · Published: Dec 3, 2020 · Article
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Help support the ianVisits website - ianVisits
by ianVisitsFor a bit over a decade, ianVisits has been providing news and information about what's happening in London.Read more ›.ianvisits.co.uk · Feb 1 · Published: Nov 27, 2020 · Article
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My husband’s toenails are so long they SHREDDED my sheets
by Martha CliffA WOMAN has shared a horrifying video of her shredded bedsheets, after her husband refused to clip his toenails. Taking to TikTok user PurpleCats4me shared a...the-sun.com · Feb 1 · Published: Nov 2, 2020 · Article
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Meet reclusive Marvel billionaire Ike Perlmutter, who is close with Trump, wrestled control of the comic-book maker from Carl Icahn, and reportedly wore a...
by Taylor Nicole RogersProPublica has reported that Perlmutter is a "shadow ruler" of the VA and a fixture at Mar-a-Lago. He has never done a press interview.businessinsider.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jul 13, 2020 · Article
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Lilly Wachowski Slams Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump for Citing ‘The Matrix’
by Zack Sharf“The Matrix” co-director has an issue with using the 1999 blockbuster to show support for Trump.indiewire.com · Feb 1 · Published: May 18, 2020 · Article
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U.S. truckers appeal for government to keep rest stops and gas stations open
As the United States gradually shuts down in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the trucking and tire industry is appealing to the government to...reuters.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 18, 2020 · Article
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Why So Many Americans Don’t Talk About Money
by Joe PinskerThe taboos vary by class, job, and circumstance.theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 2, 2020 · Article
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You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Feb 24, 2020 · Article
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Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone
by Maria Popova“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw...themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: Jun 24, 2019 · Article
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It’s Getting Worse: The IRS Now Audits Poor Americans at About the Same Rate as the Top 1%
by Paul KielAs the agency’s ability to audit the rich crumbles, its scrutiny of the poor has held steady in recent years. Meanwhile, a new study shows that audits of...propublica.org · Feb 1 · Published: May 30, 2019 · Article
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Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes better, faster, and cooler. This is not a metaphor. Unless, you know, it is.nymag.com · Feb 1 · Published: Apr 11, 2019 · Article
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Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
by Brian MerchantAutomation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise of increased leisure or larger...gizmodo.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 7, 2019 · Article
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Gawker 2.0 Implodes as Its Only Reporters Quit
by Maxwell TaniThe new site’s only two full-time writers exited Wednesday in protest of editorial director Carson Griffith’s offensive remarks about everything from race to...thedailybeast.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 23, 2019 · Article
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How Wyoming Ranchers Are Counting on IBM Blockchain for Traceability - THINK Blog
Wild, wonderful Wyoming. There’s no place like it in the world. With the lowest population of any U.S. state, traditions from the old west endure and form...ibm.com · Feb 1 · Published: Oct 8, 2018 · Article
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5 times Mariah Carey expertly shut down the haters
by Nicholas FearnSlay.thepinknews.com · Feb 1 · Published: Apr 13, 2018 · Article
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The Three Dimensions of Inclusive Design: Part One **
by Jutta TreviranusFrom time to time, we’re featuring thoughtful posts from FWD50 alumni and fascinating thinkers in the fields of identity, ethics, open…medium.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 29, 2018 · Article
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Chrysler’s over-the-air update fiasco is limited to the Northeast, but customers are still waiting for a fix
by Sean O'KaneAnswers are still hard to come by as Uconnect points the finger at SiriusXM.theverge.com · Feb 1 · Published: Feb 14, 2018 · Article
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The Case Against Tom Brady
by Adrienne LaFranceHe’s arguably the best quarterback of all time. That’s part of what makes him the absolute worst. .theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 31, 2018 · Article
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W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
by Maria PopovaA trailblazing effort “to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.”.themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: Oct 9, 2017 · Article
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We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording
by Maria PopovaReflection on “the rock on which Freedom stumped its toe.”.themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: Sep 23, 2016 · Article
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Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide
by Maria Popova“Be there to hear … the flute of your whole existence…”.themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: May 16, 2016 · Article
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Native Americans to J.K. Rowling: We’re Not Magical
by Becky LittleThe author has come under fire for equating Navajo religious beliefs with the world of her fictional Harry Potter characters.nationalgeographic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 11, 2016 · Article
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How to destroy an American family
by Aaron SankinThe Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.dailydot.com · Feb 1 · Published: Nov 24, 2015 · Article
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The retiring type
by The EconomistThe London Underground runs partly on the success of its signature font, which has long lent it clarity and identity. Catherine Nixey tells the curious story...economist.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jun 1, 2015 · Article
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Why I Hope to Die at 75
by Ezekiel J. EmanuelAn argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly.theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Sep 18, 2014 · Article
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The Case for Reparations
by Ta-Nehisi CoatesTwo hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon...theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: May 22, 2014 · Article
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Norman Mailer on the Paradoxes of Success and What True Growth Means
by Maria Popova“Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can...themarginalian.org · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 31, 2014 · Article
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Samsung weird: how a phone launch went from Broadway glitz to sexist mess
by Nilay PatelSurprise! Corporate influence and 'Sex and the City' don't mix well.theverge.com · Feb 1 · Published: Mar 18, 2013 · Article
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Reliving Groundhog Day
by James ParkerOn the 20th anniversary of the beloved Bill Murray comedy, it’s time to recognize it as a profound work of contemporary metaphysics.theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Feb 21, 2013 · Article
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After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons
From the Rogers Commission to reading Dr. Diane Vaughn’s book The Challenger Launch Decision took me 17 years. For all those years I had learned the wrong...waynehale.wordpress.com · Feb 1 · Published: Jan 31, 2013 · Article
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Fear of a Black President
by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAs a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided...theatlantic.com · Feb 1 · Published: Aug 23, 2012 · Article
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Strategic Planning
The draft USPTO 2022–2026 Strategic Plan defines our mission to drive U.S. innovation, inclusive capitalism, and global competitiveness for the benefit of...uspto.gov · Feb 1 · Published: Jul 4, 2009 · Article
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Derinkuyu underground city - Wikipedia
by Contributors to Wikimedia projectsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ancient underground city in Turkey Deep ventilation well in Derinkuyu Underground City A passage in the...en.wikipedia.org · Feb 1 · Published: Apr 6, 2007 · Article
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List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia
by Contributors to Wikimedia projectsThe radiation warning symbol (trefoil). Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a...en.wikipedia.org · Feb 1 · Published: Jul 7, 2005 · Article
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Jan 31
OpenAI releases tool to detect machine-written text
by Ina FriedHowever, its creators warn, the free web-based tool makes lots of mistakes.axios.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Amazon layoffs hit workers in robotics, grocery, health and AWS divisions
by Annie PalmerAmazon earlier this month began a fresh round of job cuts as part of widespread layoffs that are expected to total 18,000.cnbc.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Snapchat has a plan to start charging users to restore broken Snapstreaks
by Kali HaysParent company Snap has lately been attempting to monetize Snapchat in new ways as it struggles to grow advertising revenue.businessinsider.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Fortune Brainstorm Tech Announces New Founders Forum Membership, Initial Speaker Lineup, including Generation Investment Management Founding Partner and...
by FORTUNE Media/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fortune announced the launch of the Fortune Founders Forum, an extension of its exclusive Brainstorm Tech membership community for a...prnewswire.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Opinion | The Police Cannot Be a Law Unto Themselves
by Jamelle BouieRight now, the institution of American policing lies outside of any meaningful democratic control.nytimes.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Musk Leaves Twitter Staff Without Equity Plan as Deadline Looms
by Erin WooShortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter last fall, he promised Twitter staff that they could look forward to the kind of stock rewards employees at...theinformation.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Copy Editor, CNBC.com
Company Description: CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to over...jobs.smartrecruiters.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Update 01/31/2023
by Electronic ArtsMore fixes, more new content and more console.ea.com · Jan 31 · Article
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Sony: We have not cut PS VR 2 production numbers
by Christopher DringPS VR2 shipment numbers remain the same, Sony says.gamesindustry.biz · Jan 31 · Article
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Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles
By Casey Newton / Platformer. View the full context on Techmeme.techmeme.com · Jan 31 · Article
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