Boy Genius The myth of Tiger Woods

"I typically have great sympathy for Falstaffian types possessed of enormous if messy appetites for pleasure and experience – but only for those who aren’t, as a rule, cruel, boring or self-obsessed." 🤌 martinmckenziemurray.substack.com/p/boy-genius

Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no… Appen hires workers around the world to do obscure tasks with little explanation. It has also held $17m in military contracts

"Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military." www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

After the Earthquakes • EQUATOR The fundamental problem of the present is complicity

"Hannah Arendt wrote that if the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life after 1918 was death, then after 1945 it was evil. Today, the fundamental problem is complicity: reckoning with our acquiescence to a political system that suddenly appears criminal." www.equator.org/articles/aft...

You'll Never Think Alone On chatbot totalitarianism

"What I’m really worried about is less an active plot than the terminal erosion of those habits of mind and cultural practices that sustain a mass democracy."
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After Hours (1985)

I wouldn't have the attachment if literally any other fast food chain in the world did a crinkle cut

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What attracts Nepali youths to the monarchy? On the young people who support the pro-monarchy movement

"There is a very real frustration and disillusionment among young people that needs to be addressed and engaged with. Ignoring the monarchists or belittling and dismissing them outright will only allow this movement to grow unfettered."
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it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby

Shoresy crying scenes YouTube video by Vex2.0

Need to befriend a Canadian so I have someone to talk to about how good Shoresy is www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREp...

Behold also these goregopus photos from our regular Kolkata photographer Dibyangshu of the city and its emblematic taxi fleet: "The litany of defects found in the average 'Amby' gave rise to an oft-repeated joke: the only thing in the car that doesn't make a sound is its horn."

End of the road for Kolkata's beloved yellow taxis Kolkata locals cherish their city's past, which is why many in the one-time Indian capital are mourning a vanishing emblem of its faded grandeur: a hulking and noisy fleet of stately yellow taxis.

I had probably too much fun editing this story on a city I love dearly: "The city's skewed demographics prompted its pre-eminent novelist to once quip that while Delhi was for seeking power and Mumbai was for chasing riches, Kolkata was for visiting one's parents."
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The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

"She could only have successfully pivoted into a position where she has a lot of money and a chance at permanent fame because of A) the rapid decay of traditional media, and B) the relatively modern phenomenon of the wide acceptance and praise of bag-chasing nihilism."
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OK I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna become a Poster again