“James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair.”
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The Dominican Baseball Factory
“Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.”
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Apocalypse Now and Then
“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination.”
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Quest for the Slappy Man-Hug
“I’ve been passing as male for six years, and I still have no idea how to do the Slappy Man-Hug.”
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Ghosts of the Grove
“Palmeros are the gutsy, highly skilled farm workers who harvest your medjool dates. Now climate change, immigration raids, and a push for mechanization threaten their 6,000-year-old tradition.”
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Have You Been to the Sixth-Worst McDonald’s in America?
“We have. It’s ruled by Stafford County teens.”
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He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can’t Forget.
“Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?”
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The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention
“The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling.”
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Death by a Thousand Dams
“Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States.”