#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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"Somehow, between taking the tube on the old Bakerloo line to Wembley Park in 1966 and riding NJ Transit to the Meadowlands station in 2026, I have watched or attended sixteen World Cups."
Jonathan Wilson for The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07/10/the-hydration-break-world-cup
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"Somehow, between taking the tube on the old Bakerloo line to Wembley Park in 1966 and riding NJ Transit to the Meadowlands station in 2026, I have watched or attended sixteen World Cups."
Jonathan Wilson for The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07/10/the-hydration-break-world-cup
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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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"Raed Afaneh, 36, carries a laptop through the classrooms of Tal Al-Hawa Primary School for Boys, searching for an internet signal strong enough to watch the Egypt versus Australia match with friends."
Ibtisam Mahdi for +972 Magazine: https://www.972mag.com/gaza-world-cup-palestinians-genocide/
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"Raed Afaneh, 36, carries a laptop through the classrooms of Tal Al-Hawa Primary School for Boys, searching for an internet signal strong enough to watch the Egypt versus Australia match with friends."
Ibtisam Mahdi for +972 Magazine: https://www.972mag.com/gaza-world-cup-palestinians-genocide/
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"If ever there was a good time to make records out of something other than polyvinyl chloride, that time is now."
An excerpt from Kyle Devine's new book, RECOMPOSED: MUSIC, CLIMATE, CRISIS, CHANGE, published by Verso Books: https://longreads.com/2026/07/14/vinyl-record-music-industry-kyle-devine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Music #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Records #Vinyl #Plastic
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"If ever there was a good time to make records out of something other than polyvinyl chloride, that time is now."
An excerpt from Kyle Devine's new book, RECOMPOSED: MUSIC, CLIMATE, CRISIS, CHANGE, published by Verso Books: https://longreads.com/2026/07/14/vinyl-record-music-industry-kyle-devine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Music #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Records #Vinyl #Plastic
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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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"You can’t devote your life to mastering the art of scanning or unpacking cages in the same way as a craftsman devotes themselves to blade-making or weaving. We face a dearth of complex and meaningful jobs." —Joshua Habgood-Coote for Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand?src=longreads #technology #nostalgia #philosophy #artificialintelligence #ai #crafts #longreads
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"You can’t devote your life to mastering the art of scanning or unpacking cages in the same way as a craftsman devotes themselves to blade-making or weaving. We face a dearth of complex and meaningful jobs." —Joshua Habgood-Coote for Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand?src=longreads #technology #nostalgia #philosophy #artificialintelligence #ai #crafts #longreads
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"Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need to convince. Maybe it’s your C-Suite, various world leaders, or the manager of your retirement fund. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment, and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show profitability, this depends on selling their hypothetical future impact."
https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
"Anthropic needs people to believe that all problems can be solved by adding more agents, even the problems that agents introduce. Instead of better tools we buy tokens. Instead of learning skills we paste a SKILL.md. Instead of reading about The Psychology of Software Teams we call some parallel agent sessions a Team." #bun #zig #rust #longreads
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"Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need to convince. Maybe it’s your C-Suite, various world leaders, or the manager of your retirement fund. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment, and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show profitability, this depends on selling their hypothetical future impact."
https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
"Anthropic needs people to believe that all problems can be solved by adding more agents, even the problems that agents introduce. Instead of better tools we buy tokens. Instead of learning skills we paste a SKILL.md. Instead of reading about The Psychology of Software Teams we call some parallel agent sessions a Team." #bun #zig #rust #longreads
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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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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities https://www.allforgardening.com/1870963/madison-square-garden-kept-a-list-of-gay-celebrities/ #garden #longreads #NewYork #Security #SocialMedia #sports #surveillance
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities https://www.allforgardening.com/1870963/madison-square-garden-kept-a-list-of-gay-celebrities/ #garden #longreads #NewYork #Security #SocialMedia #sports #surveillance
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Our Top 5 this week:
ㆍConcrete memories, Places Journal
ㆍGrief science, The New Yorker
ㆍCaptive cats, The Narwhal
ㆍRelentless pain, The Common
ㆍMyth meets reality, The Atlantichttps://longreads.com/2026/07/10/top-5-616/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=email
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Our Top 5 this week:
ㆍConcrete memories, Places Journal
ㆍGrief science, The New Yorker
ㆍCaptive cats, The Narwhal
ㆍRelentless pain, The Common
ㆍMyth meets reality, The Atlantichttps://longreads.com/2026/07/10/top-5-616/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=email
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"They’re probably thinking: how cute! 'It doesn’t help that social media is just exploding with these,' Dubois says; one Instagram account, Chloe the Serval, has more than 817,000 followers."
Michelle Cyca for The Narwhal: https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-exotic-cats-banned
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"They’re probably thinking: how cute! 'It doesn’t help that social media is just exploding with these,' Dubois says; one Instagram account, Chloe the Serval, has more than 817,000 followers."
Michelle Cyca for The Narwhal: https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-exotic-cats-banned
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"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."
Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas
#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media
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"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."
Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas
#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
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A retro gaming projector with built-in fully licensed retro games should be my ideal kind of gadget.
Unfortunately as I found out in my not-exactly-short review... I was left somewhat wanting.
Maybe I have high standards... But I don't feel like I should apologise for that!
#retrogaming #projector #longreads
https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2026/laser-portable-gaming-projector/
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A retro gaming projector with built-in fully licensed retro games should be my ideal kind of gadget.
Unfortunately as I found out in my not-exactly-short review... I was left somewhat wanting.
Maybe I have high standards... But I don't feel like I should apologise for that!
#retrogaming #projector #longreads
https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2026/laser-portable-gaming-projector/
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"Walters tapes the reptile’s mouth shut and places the animal in a burlap sack. He twists the top tight. It will sit below the truck console for the rest of the day." —Luke Winkie for Slate https://slate.com/life/2026/06/florida-alligator-attack-hunting-nuisance-miami.html?src=longreads #alligators #florida #journalism #animals #wildlife #longreads
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"Walters tapes the reptile’s mouth shut and places the animal in a burlap sack. He twists the top tight. It will sit below the truck console for the rest of the day." —Luke Winkie for Slate https://slate.com/life/2026/06/florida-alligator-attack-hunting-nuisance-miami.html?src=longreads #alligators #florida #journalism #animals #wildlife #longreads
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"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads
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"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads
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"Someone once sent me a model of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared into the ocean. But the best gift? What a terrifying question. My college education? If anyone ever gives me a human skull, that will be it." Elisa Gabbert answers the Longreads questionnaire https://longreads.com/2026/07/08/longreads-questionnaire-elisa-gabbert/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #authors #writing #interview #creativity #longreads
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"Someone once sent me a model of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared into the ocean. But the best gift? What a terrifying question. My college education? If anyone ever gives me a human skull, that will be it." Elisa Gabbert answers the Longreads questionnaire https://longreads.com/2026/07/08/longreads-questionnaire-elisa-gabbert/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #authors #writing #interview #creativity #longreads
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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
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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
