FeedCity: Longreads

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03 Jun 14:33 • Krista Stevens

Librarians on Horseback

"The New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes."

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03 Jun 13:09 • Seyward Darby

Made in the USA

"Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves."

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02 Jun 22:24 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism

"With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged."

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02 Jun 19:33 • Seyward Darby

Life With Locked-in Syndrome: ‘Despite Everything, You Are Alive’

"Matt Rudd has remarkable conversations with three Britons who, after life-changing accidents, have fully active minds but cannot move or speak, and can communicate only via the blink of an eye."

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02 Jun 15:36 • Krista Stevens

Hard Rain

"The battle over weather modification."

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02 Jun 10:09 • Jenny Odell

Living in an Alive World

A triptych shows images of a forest floor with mushrooms rising, a singing bird, and a cloudy sky. Each image has a square around it, as though to focus the attention of the viewer on something discrete.

Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception beyond our limits.

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01 Jun 23:03 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Darde Ghorbat

"The pain of alienation."

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01 Jun 17:36 • Brendan Fitzgerald

You Must Remember This

"On the nature of autobiographical memory."

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01 Jun 11:06 • Carolyn Wells

What happened to Borat’s village?

Sacha Baron Cohen turned Glod into a punchline.

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29 May 23:24 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Are There More Bunnies in Toronto?

"I never used to see rabbits in Toronto. Then they were everywhere. Then I lost my mind."

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28 May 20:03 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Why Are Fish So Gay?

"A conversation about finding community in the aquatic."

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28 May 18:15 • Brendan Fitzgerald

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline

"No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack."

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28 May 17:06 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Capybaras Aren’t All Right

"The internet’s favorite animal is facing a dark fate."

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28 May 10:12 • Olivia Potts

The Grate Cheese Robbery

How organized crimes fell in love with cheese.

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27 May 15:33 • Krista Stevens

This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything

"A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human."

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27 May 12:03 • Peter Rubin

Love Language

“The undying dream of Esperanto.“

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27 May 10:15 • Peter Rubin

Grate Expectations: The Troubled Quest for Tasty Vegan Cheese

“The plant-based boom failed to deliver. But there may yet be hope.”

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26 May 22:33 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers

"The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm."

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26 May 18:03 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

"An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction."

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26 May 17:06 • Krista Stevens

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who’s the Robot Now?

"Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences."

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26 May 11:03 • Brendan Fitzgerald

Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota

"I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI debate."

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26 May 10:03 • Longreads

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