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A #longreads rec. for your Sunday:
In 1992, a Texas small business owner was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to BBSes.
His "telecomics," as he called them, are an overlooked early experiment in online comics, at a key moment in U.S. politics.
breakintochat.com/blog/6pbp
#SundayReads: Beginning with a 14th-century king who believed he was made entirely of glass, Tamara Sanderson investigates the “glass delusion” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility... #longreads
ICYMI — Check out this deeply reported profile of an overlooked early experiment in online comics.
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #comics #history #longreads
"In 2023, scientists from Norway reported new data, collected with the help of a Cold War-era spy plane, that offered exciting new insights. But despite all this, exactly what sparks off a lightning strike remains a mystery." #Longreads #Science www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
"For a long time, the housed neighbors had felt like the city had abandoned homeless people. Now they felt like the city was abandoning them." @alexsammon.bsky.social for @slate.com
#longreads slate.com/business/202...
"MultiCam is so ubiquitous that you can buy a camping chair or baby carrier in the camouflage pattern. Arc’teryx and Outdoor Research make jackets in MultiCam."
@trufelman.bsky.social for @wired.com #longreads www.wired.com/camouflage-m...
“I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.”
BANKSY
#longreads
Reference genome assembly of a tetraploid accession of the tuber crop Tropaeolum tuberosum
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Genome sequence of the medicinal plant Tropaeolum majus provides insights into flavonoid biosynthesis
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads
This composite image shows "Mack the Mouse," a comic character drawn in a pixelated computer format, beside a photo of his creator, Don Lokke Jr.
In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “telecomics” to describe his new digital comic strips, drawn primarily in the ANSI art format and distributed online through BBSes.
This is the final in-depth profile in my "ANSI art and webcomics" series!
breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03...
#longreads #comics
The companions from The Broken Crown Saga
Long stories aren't just about bigger stakes — they're about watching people change over time.
Give me 600 pages of someone becoming someone else. That's the whole point.
#Fiction #CharacterArcs #Booksky #LongReads
"At the first hint of trouble—say a description stretches a bit long—I stop to remind myself of the virtues of patience. At the second hint, fretfulness takes hold, and I count the pages to the next chapter break." Michel Chaouli for @yalereview.bsky.social #longreads yalereview.org/article/mich...
'Meaning is not only in what is built. It is in what is left behind.'
'The Sixth Stone' is now out.
A study in Northern Cape history, the 'scatter' of the Nama, and the philosophy of the unfinished.
#Longreads #SouthAfrica #LiteraryJournalism #WritingCommunity
"This article explores three hypothetical, yet plausible, scenarios of how AI-enabled corruption of the information environment might lead to an increased risk of nuclear escalation." #AI #Disinformation #Longreads
"This article explores three hypothetical, yet plausible, scenarios of how AI-enabled corruption of the information environment might lead to an increased risk of nuclear escalation." #AI #Disinformation #Longreads
A vertical digital book-cover style graphic for a Substack article titled 'The Sixth Stone'. The top half features a sun-drenched, pink-orange granite mountain face under a clear sky. The bottom half is a dark, silhouetted foreground where the text is placed. The text reads: 'The Sixth Stone: On scatter, stack, and silence in the Bergsig gap' followed by the author name 'ben marvan'
My new essay (out tomorrow) explores the Nama principle of 'scatter': how meaning lives in the traces we leave behind, rather than the monuments we build.
Dropping Sunday morning on Substack.
#SouthAfrica #LiteraryJournalism #WritingCommunity #Longreads
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Join me next weekend in Boston for my conversation with @praddenkeefe.bsky.social about his new book, LONDON FALLING. Plus: J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards.
niemanstoryboard.org/2026/03/20/p...
#longreads #journalism
Very excited for this MASSIVE #metagenomics project and can't wait to see everything that will be discovered! #longreads
My first Substack article in what will be regular commentary on culture and politics. Click to read prose full of wit and furious anger: open.substack.com/pub/alexcler.... This post is about my concern/hate for #Ozempic and #GLP1 drugs and microwave solutions they represent. #capitalism #longreads
Canada has no law to govern AI companies. A lawsuit over the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting may force the issue. #longreads
Review: Right off the bat, Govan offered the building to Zumthor, the lauded minimalist architect who had never designed a building in America. No competition, no tryouts, no picking by committee. This was fully Govan’s choice, and Los Angeles had to embrace it. #longreads
Windsor mayor eyes development fee exemption for new apartments Hopeful that provincial grants will more than make up for lost revenue, Windsor’s mayor wants to waive development fees for apartme...
#Local #News #development #Drew #Dilkens #Longreads #Windsor
Origin | Interest | Match
#ERGAReads | Genome size estimation from long read overlaps 🧑💻 🧬
🔗 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
#bioinformatics #genomesize #Longreads
For those who want more context, here's a link to a story that The New Yorker published in the fall. #longreads
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI "Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack." “I’d become a teacher in large p...
#Editor's #Pick #AI #artificial #intelligence #longreads #Peter #C […]
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The late William Langewiesche was a brilliant writer/journalist. In this 2014 piece, he explores how a series of small errors turned a state-of-the-art cockpit into a death trap.
#longreads
"The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives." #AI #Dystopia #Longreads
In “Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane,” through Da Capo Books, veteran music journalist Andy Beta tells the full life story of this highly influential jazz artist for the first time. Drawing on dozens of new interviews and extensive archival research, #longreads
The dawn of the AI drone: a @nytimes.com long read reported over 18 months involving multiple trips to Ukraine
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m... #longreads
Rick Bass travels to far West Texas in search of the elusive night-blooming cereus—for @texashighways.bsky.social. #longreads
(Click the link for a lovely surprise.)
texashighways.com/outdoors/the...
