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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
The Hate Is Coming From Inside the House
The claws of diet culture dig in early, and they dig in deep.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World
The Hermit Kingdom is pulling off massive, technologically advanced bank heists that funnel tens of millions into the regime’s pocket.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
How Do You Live In a Body That Doesn’t Feel Like Yours? If You Have No Choice, You Just Do.
Paraic O’Donnell chronicles the progression of his MS with clarity, beauty, wit, and no small amount of sadness. Picking the most striking paragraph in this essay full of them is a fool’s errand.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
This Story About Coronavirus Is Both Deeply Alarming and Deeply Calming
Just read it. And go wash your hands.
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The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go
There’s participating in the body positivity movement and then there’s actual body positivity, and one’s a lot harder — impossible, for some — than the other.
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MS Is Meticulously Destroying Me. I Am Being Unmade.
“It’s not that you surrender, in the end. Even surrender takes effort, and you just don’t have the energy.”
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes
‘What’s this guy doing loose in Malheur County?’
He faked an insanity defense, got out, and immediately committed another crime, and this time people are dead. He’s going to plead insanity again.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quotes
Don’t Pretend Like You Don’t Love Wikipedia
Without it, you’d have to actually, y’know, be productive.