Sometimes, for reasons we don’t understand and can’t control, shit goes south; rather than thrashing against those inevitabilities, maybe it’s better to accept the minor defeats.
~ Amanda Petrusich via The New Yorker
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Donald Trump’s father had reared him to have cutthroat ambition. But Roy Cohn taught him tactics.
~ Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark via The New Yorker
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Before 1946, conquering disease would have seemed as much a subject of science fiction as putting a man on the moon. But since 1950, global life expectancy has risen by four years each decade. Smallpox has been eradicated, and polio and malaria cases have dramatically fallen. Within the past 80 years, there have perhaps been more significant advances in human health than there were in the previous 300,000.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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via The Atlantic:
America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
by Vivian Salama
published on September 22, 2026
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The Industrial Revolution happened without any theoretical knowledge of the physical principles that drove it. It took more than a century for us to piece together the laws of thermodynamics. This scientific advance led to such debatably beneficial things as the smartphone. But it also helped us explain why time flows forward, galaxies exist, and our universal fate is heat death.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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This whole tower of wealth and expectation is built on land that is controlled by ordinary Americans — and ordinary Americans possess an absolute hatred for the data centers. This hate will endure until the builders of the data centers can use their products to tangibly benefit the lives of ordinary people who oppose them.
~ Tanner Greer via The New York Times
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