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nytimes.com/2025/10/30/climate/candy-chocolate-cocoa-prices-climate-change.html
As climate change has helped push cocoa prices higher, companies are changing candy recipes in subtle ways.
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Ross Douthat has a fantasy novel for young adult readers: The Falcon’s Children, the first in what reportedly will be a trilogy from the respectability-conservatism peddler, who left his sinecure as a columnist at the New York Times earlier this year so that he could lower television’s aggregate charisma level by 944 percent as a…
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Sometimes the best course of action is horsing around. “I wasn’t an appealing child,” Lisa Hanawalt writes in “I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex,” her new, winningly messy cartoon memoir.
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A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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The “coastal grandma” of menswear is here.
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Mr. Wonderful inversely appeared uninterested in the foam orb, not seeing how it could distinguish itself among other, more popular balls
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Everyone in my life agreed: It tastes different now. I ventured into the molten belly of our crumbling world to find out why.
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hbr.org/2026/10/team-dynamics-weaken-when-employees-turn-to-ai-instead-of-colleagues
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linkedin.com/pulse/some-lessons-learned-from-foursquare-steven-rosenblatt-zixwc/
Last week it was announced that Infillion acquired Foursquare. I knew Infillion, which started out as Gimbal, a small competitor on the business side to Foursquare in the early days, and was disappointed but not surprised to see this acquisition.
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After 17 years, Foursquare’s ending is written. Writing this to share my opinions & frustrations with the final years of the company, and to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ’s legacy.
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Seth Ashley writes about why the consolidation of media companies can put greater pressure on independent media and diverse voices.
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tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-brother-condemns-ramaswamy-video-featuring-estranged-mother/
Acton’s brother is speaking out after their estranged mother appeared in a political attack accusing his sister of lying about her childhood. He says their mother remained married to the man who sexually abused Acton even after both children were removed from their custody.
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/abdul-el-sayed-heckler?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Timmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed
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linkedin.com/pulse/apple-domain-blocking-cost-publishers-anthony-katsur-n5e8e/
Apple’s latest domain-blocking controversy has drawn attention to the advertising technology companies affected. The bigger story is the pressure it puts on publishers worldwide.
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businessinsider.com/apple-explains-new-safari-ad-tracking-privacy-restrictions-2026-10
Apple's latest privacy crackdown is rattling the online ad industry. And it isn't backing down.
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After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in part of the Gulf, a new study found. Those populations haven’t recovered.
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vulture.com/article/romain-gavras-yung-lean-storm-ai-copies.html
Romain Gavras’s “Storm” was the kind of music video AI couldn’t fake. Then came an editing tool seemingly custom-made to replicate it into infinity.
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propublica.org/article/navatek-lindsey-graham-jim-clyburn-fbi-anti-corruption-bribery
An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, the investigation went dark.
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Why writers are the perfect target.
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backwardstabletop.com/breaking-fourth-walls-and-magic-circles/
Games and temporary worlds
