“‘Clippers’ cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?”
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Everyone Is Stealing TV
“Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.”
You Could Be Next
“Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs.”
Out of the Fog
“Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.”
ICE Is Pushing Minneapolis Underground
“After ICE raids, tear gassing protestors, and two killings, DHS ‘border czar’ Tom Homan arrived in the Twin Cities to announce a winding down of immigration enforcement. But the battle has merely moved from the streets to the underground, and the city remains under siege.”
Friend or Faux?
“Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing, leaving them to wonder, ‘Is this real? And does that matter?’”
Knock It Off!
“Getting copied is devastating—but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?”
The Women Who Made America’s Microchips and the Children Who Paid for It
“America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Twin Cities resistance, psychedelic self-reinvention, guardians of the ranch, a file of fragments, and Pantone’s political white.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Hannah S. Palmer, Jeremy Thomas Gilmer, Spencer Campbell, Mia Sato, and Dina Gachman.

