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The Longevity Bros Are Cold Plunging Wrong
16+ hour, 48+ min ago (112+ words) The practice has its benefits. Just not the ones wellness influencers are loudest about. Read: How cold can a living body get? Read: How did healing ourselves get so exhausting? The amazing thing about this study, however, was that many…...
What Happens Now to Kristi Noem’s Warehouse Jails?
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (305+ words) DHS's next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention. Read: Why Trump changed his mind on Kristi Noem Several veteran ICE officials I asked about the plan said they were skeptical it could succeed. ICE officials…...
Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (514+ words) If you are older than 25, you probably haven't heard of "Agartha" When I asked whether this was an Agartha reference, the White House press office responded by email that "4 people had to Google what Agartha is and we're still not…...
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (253+ words) Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them. Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran may…...
Trump’s Folly - The Atlantic
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) The United States has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless. In the 1970s, an ideological struggle within the Republican Party pitted the views of Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, against those of Ronald Reagan. In…...
Gavin Newsom Would Rather Be Wrong Than Weak
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (949+ words) California's Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton…...
The People Who Marry Chatbots
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1121+ words) A growing community is building a life with large language models. Schroeder says that he loves his husband Cole'even though Cole is a chatbot created by ChatGPT. Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole "all day,…...
Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1598+ words) The Atlantic's Helen Lewis on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, why comedians are attracted to conspiracy theories, and the rise of the right-wing comedy-podcast industrial complex. Plus: the importance of NATO and David's reflections on Edith Wharton's Autres Temps. Subscribe here:…...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (415+ words) The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If there is any field in which the rise of AI is already…...
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1849+ words) Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss'it's all part of a tactic called "sludge." I was tempted to bury the whole cretinous ordeal, except that I'd looked behind the curtain and vowed to document what I'd seen. It all began…...