#longreads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #longreads, aggregated by home.social.
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"It’s a legendary scene in a movie...and yet she is unnamed almost everywhere, her purpose reduced to an anonymous but iconic moment of violence, perpetually dying but looking good while doing it." —Annakeara Stinson for Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a71885817/dirty-harry-swimmer/?src=longreads #violence #acting #family #mothers #daughters #longreads
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"It’s a legendary scene in a movie...and yet she is unnamed almost everywhere, her purpose reduced to an anonymous but iconic moment of violence, perpetually dying but looking good while doing it." —Annakeara Stinson for Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a71885817/dirty-harry-swimmer/?src=longreads #violence #acting #family #mothers #daughters #longreads
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"210 raspberry varieties were laid out in a grid of plastic pints. Some had been bred for visual appeal, with more shapely shoulders, uniform drupelets and less 'hair.' Others were developed to maximize yield, with fewer thorns and better 'plant architecture.'" —Julia Moskin for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/dining/driscolls-berries.html?src=longreads #food #fruit #farming #agriculture #berries #strawberries #raspberries #longreads
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"210 raspberry varieties were laid out in a grid of plastic pints. Some had been bred for visual appeal, with more shapely shoulders, uniform drupelets and less 'hair.' Others were developed to maximize yield, with fewer thorns and better 'plant architecture.'" —Julia Moskin for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/dining/driscolls-berries.html?src=longreads #food #fruit #farming #agriculture #berries #strawberries #raspberries #longreads
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"[A] raccoon, described by staff as a 'perfect client,' followed a customer into a busy McDonald’s, sidled up to the counter, and refused to leave until it was given a Chicken McNugget."
Dan Werb for Literary Hub: https://lithub.com/welcome-to-toronto-world-capital-of-the-urban-raccoon/
#Longreads #Books #Animals #Raccoon #Wildlife #Urban #Cities #Toronto
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"[A] raccoon, described by staff as a 'perfect client,' followed a customer into a busy McDonald’s, sidled up to the counter, and refused to leave until it was given a Chicken McNugget."
Dan Werb for Literary Hub: https://lithub.com/welcome-to-toronto-world-capital-of-the-urban-raccoon/
#Longreads #Books #Animals #Raccoon #Wildlife #Urban #Cities #Toronto
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Q: Where do you do your best thinking?
A: On the EGYPTAIR flight home. . . . There is no better place to think than somewhere over the Atlantic after Egypt has scrambled your brain.
This week's Longreads Questionnaire, with BECOMING BABA author Aymann Ismail: https://longreads.com/2026/07/15/questionnaire-aymann-ismail/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Books #Egyptian #Egypt #Writers #Journalists #Reporting #Reading #Interviews
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Q: Where do you do your best thinking?
A: On the EGYPTAIR flight home. . . . There is no better place to think than somewhere over the Atlantic after Egypt has scrambled your brain.
This week's Longreads Questionnaire, with BECOMING BABA author Aymann Ismail: https://longreads.com/2026/07/15/questionnaire-aymann-ismail/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Books #Egyptian #Egypt #Writers #Journalists #Reporting #Reading #Interviews
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/inventing-eliza-book-excerpt-chatbot/
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/inventing-eliza-book-excerpt-chatbot/
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Goose on Selling Out MSG, Jam-Scene Backlash and Indie-Rock Influences https://www.allforgardening.com/1872049/goose-on-selling-out-msg-jam-scene-backlash-and-indie-rock-influences/ #garden #goose #GratefulDead #LongReads #Phish
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Goose on Selling Out MSG, Jam-Scene Backlash and Indie-Rock Influences https://www.allforgardening.com/1872049/goose-on-selling-out-msg-jam-scene-backlash-and-indie-rock-influences/ #garden #goose #GratefulDead #LongReads #Phish
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"At a spiritual retreat one afternoon, he suddenly became preoccupied with the idea that the priest who stood before him speaking was on the verge of collapse. Searching for an explanation, he told me he had become 'hypervigilant of mortality.'" —Pamela Colloff for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/magazine/florida-death-penalty.html?src=longreads #florida #executions #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #longreads #reporting
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"At a spiritual retreat one afternoon, he suddenly became preoccupied with the idea that the priest who stood before him speaking was on the verge of collapse. Searching for an explanation, he told me he had become 'hypervigilant of mortality.'" —Pamela Colloff for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/magazine/florida-death-penalty.html?src=longreads #florida #executions #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #longreads #reporting
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"At a spiritual retreat one afternoon, he suddenly became preoccupied with the idea that the priest who stood before him speaking was on the verge of collapse. Searching for an explanation, he told me he had become 'hypervigilant of mortality.'" —Pamela Colloff for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/magazine/florida-death-penalty.html?src=longreads #florida #executions #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #longreads #reporting
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"At a spiritual retreat one afternoon, he suddenly became preoccupied with the idea that the priest who stood before him speaking was on the verge of collapse. Searching for an explanation, he told me he had become 'hypervigilant of mortality.'" —Pamela Colloff for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/magazine/florida-death-penalty.html?src=longreads #florida #executions #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #longreads #reporting
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"At a spiritual retreat one afternoon, he suddenly became preoccupied with the idea that the priest who stood before him speaking was on the verge of collapse. Searching for an explanation, he told me he had become 'hypervigilant of mortality.'" —Pamela Colloff for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/magazine/florida-death-penalty.html?src=longreads #florida #executions #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #longreads #reporting
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore
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People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore
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"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media
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"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media
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"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media
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"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media
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"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media
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"To call it a speck is generous. At first, I mistake it for a particle of dust. But then, it catches the sun and sparkles undeniably." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch
https://dispatch-media.com/the-brits-panning-for-gold/?src=longreads
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"To call it a speck is generous. At first, I mistake it for a particle of dust. But then, it catches the sun and sparkles undeniably." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch
https://dispatch-media.com/the-brits-panning-for-gold/?src=longreads
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"I’m cold and lonely and should have gone to see the wild horses." —Claire Vaye Watkins for The Believer https://www.thebeliever.net/one-last-run/?src=longreads #sundance #film #movies #travel #longreads #essay
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"I’m cold and lonely and should have gone to see the wild horses." —Claire Vaye Watkins for The Believer https://www.thebeliever.net/one-last-run/?src=longreads #sundance #film #movies #travel #longreads #essay
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"I started to map out the attacks around Thornden Park, using police reports and stray newspaper clips for some of the later ones. The numbers and proximity were jarring." —Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?src=longreads #investigation #reporting #longreads #assault #wrongfulconvictions
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"I started to map out the attacks around Thornden Park, using police reports and stray newspaper clips for some of the later ones. The numbers and proximity were jarring." —Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?src=longreads #investigation #reporting #longreads #assault #wrongfulconvictions
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How Hunter Biden Won the Internet
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-hunter-biden-won-the-internet/
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"My drunken bonding with the editor didn’t feel fake, as some alcohol-induced connection does, but it would have been very difficult to arrange without the excuse of drinking." —Sarah Miller for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-diehard-drinker-accidentally-quits?src=longreads #drinking #alcohol #sobriety #essays #longreads
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"My drunken bonding with the editor didn’t feel fake, as some alcohol-induced connection does, but it would have been very difficult to arrange without the excuse of drinking." —Sarah Miller for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-diehard-drinker-accidentally-quits?src=longreads #drinking #alcohol #sobriety #essays #longreads
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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian
#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory
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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian
#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory
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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian
#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory
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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian
#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory
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"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian
#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory
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"Then he turned on the rogue fake signal from his spoofer and watched as the dot on the screen appeared to race off down his street, heading north."
Katherine Dunn for The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/how-to-hack-a-superyacht
#Longreads #GPS #Military #Spoofing #Hacking #Satellite #Communications #Yacht
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"Then he turned on the rogue fake signal from his spoofer and watched as the dot on the screen appeared to race off down his street, heading north."
Katherine Dunn for The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/how-to-hack-a-superyacht
#Longreads #GPS #Military #Spoofing #Hacking #Satellite #Communications #Yacht
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.1 - v2.0.1 - Crazy Corgi Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.1#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
