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Inside the Vatican’s Secret Saint-Making Process
“Canonization has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy?”
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This Is Life in the Metaverse
“Every hour of the day and night with the gamers, parents, insomniacs, preteens and aspiring comedians who are the earliest adopters of the immersive, three-dimensional internet that Mark Zuckerberg has bet the future of his company on.”
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The Twisted Life of Clippy
In the 1990s, Microsoft created a virtual assistant in Microsoft Office that users found annoying — so it was swiftly retired. For Seattle Met, Benjamin Cassidy recounts the history of an unloved and doomed office assistant that has lived on in pop and nerd culture. These days, an annoying Word creature might seem eminently tolerable […]
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Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn’t Make It Easy
“Living with my mother, we get free child care and help with expenses. But all those perks come at a cost.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow
The author of Enshittification and the new The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI on hammock life, the joy of pulp, and writing through it.
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Who am I to Diss a Brie?
“Plenty of people are looking for stilton, and some have more than a snack on their mind.”
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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
“Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom’s attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.”
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Ingenious Librarians
“A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it.”
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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
“How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.”
