“After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time.”
Peter Rubin
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Boomers Are Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff
“As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money. They’re being buried under an avalanche of baseball cards, fine china and collections of all sorts.”
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Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)
“I’d heard that moan in the presence of older Southern black folk my entire life, but I’d never heard it connecting two rhymed verses. Art couldn’t get any fresher than that.”
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What I Saw at the Movies
“I wasn’t a film critic or festival programmer or even an aspiring director. I was just an adolescent schoolboy and, in my parents’ probably loving description, a ‘weirdo.’”
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It’s Your Last Chance to Fight the Algorithm
Hi again, First off, thank you for opening this email. I know we’ve been showing up in your inbox a bit more than usual these days. But tomorrow is the last day of our Member Drive, so I wanted to reach out one final time to explain why Longreads is counting on your support. By […]
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Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
“He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.”
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The School for Wildlife Traffickers
“Chinese criminals are recruiting Malawian orphans into the ivory trade.”
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‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness
“The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged?”