#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 massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads
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"I was briefly stopped by a Tencent recruiter who — to his great disappointment — had misread the word 'media' on my badge as 'Meta.'" —Viola Zhou for Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/?src=longreads #technology #innovation #ai #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley #longreads -
"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff/
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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time."
Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBLIC and The Guardian: https://www.republic.land/a-new-kind-of-van-life/
#Longreads #VanLife #Nomads #Desert #Arizona #Housing #BLM #PublicLands
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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time."
Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBLIC and The Guardian: https://www.republic.land/a-new-kind-of-van-life/
#Longreads #VanLife #Nomads #Desert #Arizona #Housing #BLM #PublicLands
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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time."
Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBLIC and The Guardian: https://www.republic.land/a-new-kind-of-van-life/
#Longreads #VanLife #Nomads #Desert #Arizona #Housing #BLM #PublicLands
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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time."
Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBLIC and The Guardian: https://www.republic.land/a-new-kind-of-van-life/
#Longreads #VanLife #Nomads #Desert #Arizona #Housing #BLM #PublicLands
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"Between them, the bus has become something more than shelter, a way of living deliberately within borrowed time."
Joshua Jackson for RE:PUBLIC and The Guardian: https://www.republic.land/a-new-kind-of-van-life/
#Longreads #VanLife #Nomads #Desert #Arizona #Housing #BLM #PublicLands
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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"In the back of the van, I learned other things, too, like who the Geto Boys were, what a 187 was, and that you could make a lot more money selling crack than working at McDonald’s. I also learned about my dad." —Joe Bond for the Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/29/all-my-dads-sons/?src=longreads #fathers #sons #family #kentucky #violence #longreads
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"In the back of the van, I learned other things, too, like who the Geto Boys were, what a 187 was, and that you could make a lot more money selling crack than working at McDonald’s. I also learned about my dad." —Joe Bond for the Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/29/all-my-dads-sons/?src=longreads #fathers #sons #family #kentucky #violence #longreads
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"In the back of the van, I learned other things, too, like who the Geto Boys were, what a 187 was, and that you could make a lot more money selling crack than working at McDonald’s. I also learned about my dad." —Joe Bond for the Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/29/all-my-dads-sons/?src=longreads #fathers #sons #family #kentucky #violence #longreads
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"In the back of the van, I learned other things, too, like who the Geto Boys were, what a 187 was, and that you could make a lot more money selling crack than working at McDonald’s. I also learned about my dad." —Joe Bond for the Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/29/all-my-dads-sons/?src=longreads #fathers #sons #family #kentucky #violence #longreads
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"We have been raised on films that end with cathartic tears and hugs, and promises never to hurt each other again. In real life, that’s not where most of my friends are with their mothers."
Rebecca Liu for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/28/asian-mothers-bad-feelings-tiger-mom-stereotype
#Longreads #Essay #Mothers #Chinese #Asian #Parents #Diaspora #Film #Literature #Books
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"Like the subway and public library, benches are places that people who have nowhere to go, go."
Gabrielle Bruney for Places Journal: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-disappearance-of-the-public-bench/
#Longreads #Bench #Urban #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #Cities
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On the ocean, wayfinding meant reading swells and stars. On a field in Springdale, Arkansas, it meant reading space, movement, and one another.
Read Jordan P. Hickey's new Longreads story about the Marshall Islands' first-ever national soccer team.
https://longreads.com/2026/04/21/marshall-islands-soccer-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Sports #Soccer #Football #WorldCup #MarshallIslands #Marshallese #Belonging #Diaspora #Migration
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"So much of the experimentation with GLP-1s is happening outside traditional research models, careful clinical trials and even the health system."
Julia Belluz for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/15/opinion/glp1-health-effects.html
#Longreads #Medicine #Health #Ozempic #GLP1 #WeightLoss #Drugs
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The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovered what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Read Jordan P. Hickey’s new Longreads story, “The Wayfinders.”
https://longreads.com/2026/04/21/marshall-islands-soccer-team/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #MarshallIslands #RMI #Diaspora #Belonging #Home #Migration #Soccer #Identity #WorldCup #Sports
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"More than once she scrawled a picture of the female reproductive system on a wall with a Sharpie to help explain things to her peers."
Rebecca McCray for The 19th and The Marshall Project: https://19thnews.org/2026/04/menopause-perimenopause-prison-life-women/
#Longreads #Women #WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Incarceration #Prison
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
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/2.0.0#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
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/2.0.0#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
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/2.0.0#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
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/2.0.0#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
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/2.0.0#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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“This is not grass. This is an entire system of devices, of build-up. It is complex – far more complex than people realize.”
Andrea Woo for The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-fifa-world-cup-soccer-pitch-grass-stadiums
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On Reuniting, New Album ‘Arirang’ and Their Future Plans
W hen RM is going through an existential crisis, which is pretty often, he might think of the…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #BTS #BTSandRM #CoverStory #Entertainment #J-Hope #Jimin #jin #JungKook #LongReads #Suga #UK #UnitedKingdom #VandBTS
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On Reuniting, New Album ‘Arirang’ and Their Future Plans
W hen RM is going through an existential crisis, which is pretty often, he might think of the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #bts #BTSandRM #coverstory #J-hope #Jimin #Jin #JungKook #LongReads #Suga #VandBTS
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On Reuniting, New Album ‘Arirang’ and Their Future Plans
W hen RM is going through an existential crisis, which is pretty often, he might think of the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #bts #BTSandRM #coverstory #J-hope #Jimin #Jin #JungKook #LongReads #Suga #VandBTS
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/433411/ On Reuniting, New Album ‘Arirang’ and Their Future Plans #bts #BTSAndRM #CoverStory #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #JHope #jimin #Jin #JungKook #LongReads #Music #Suga #VAndBTS
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"Not only do both find cases, they find more cases, fatalities I hadn’t heard of and that were not reported by the media. How many more have escaped notice?" —Paul Collins for The Believer https://www.thebeliever.net/the-death-of-a-superman/?src=longreads #donations #emergency #design #longreads #homelessness #invisibility
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"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton Subastas."
Geoffrey Gray for Alta Journal: https://www.altaonline.com/books/a70453082/joaquin-murieta-yellow-bird-zamorano-80/
#Longreads #California #Books #RareBooks #Collecting #History #Libraries #Mexico #Reading
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AI in IVF could be “awesome, or terrifying.”
Randomized trials show AI tools picking embryos almost as well as humans—but 10x faster. But who will control the algorithm? Phineas Rueckert digs into the new fertility frontier in our latest #Longreads piece: https://longreads.com/2026/03/03/ivf-and-ai-infertility/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#AI #IVF #fertility #AItools #algorithm #writing #reported #essays
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💡🚀 Wow, a 51-minute read on "simplifying" application architecture with MIM! Because nothing says "simple" like a convoluted table of contents and a comparison to every architecture buzzword ever. 😂🔧 Just admit it, you wanted to write a book under the guise of an article. 📚
https://codingfox.net.pl/posts/mim/ #simplifyingarchitecture #MIM #applicationarchitecture #buzzwords #techhumor #longreads #HackerNews #ngated -
This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji 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/1.2.6#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji 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/1.2.6#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji 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/1.2.6#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji 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/1.2.6#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji 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/1.2.6#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics
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"Spawning on the Great Barrier Reef has been called the largest reproductive event on Earth, and, in more colorful terms, 'the world’s largest orgasm.'"
Benji Jones for Vox: https://www.vox.com/climate/475447/australia-great-barrier-reef-climate-change-restoration
#Longreads #Environment #Ocean #Sea #Australia #Reef #Coral #GreatBarrierReef #Conservation