#longreads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #longreads, aggregated by home.social.
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"Whatever the reason, it’s now de rigueur to be regular."—Linni Kral for Taste
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"Whatever the reason, it’s now de rigueur to be regular."—Linni Kral for Taste
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"Ghost Town has stepped in to address a decades-old problem with an unconventional approach."
Hayes Davenport for LA Material: https://lamaterial.com/p/ghost-town-consultants-venice-homelessness
#Longreads #Homelessness #Unhoused #Venice #LosAngeles #Security
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"Ghost Town has stepped in to address a decades-old problem with an unconventional approach."
Hayes Davenport for LA Material: https://lamaterial.com/p/ghost-town-consultants-venice-homelessness
#Longreads #Homelessness #Unhoused #Venice #LosAngeles #Security
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"We are all living inside the world that QVC made, the commingling of identity and acquisition."
A decades-old shopping channel, a lifelong friendship, and the strange comfort of watching people sell things you'll never buy. New from Hannah Engler Harvey: https://longreads.com/2026/07/30/qvc-shopping-influencers-friendship/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Culture #CulturalCriticism #Shopping #QVC #Influencers
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"We are all living inside the world that QVC made, the commingling of identity and acquisition."
A decades-old shopping channel, a lifelong friendship, and the strange comfort of watching people sell things you'll never buy. New from Hannah Engler Harvey: https://longreads.com/2026/07/30/qvc-shopping-influencers-friendship/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Culture #CulturalCriticism #Shopping #QVC #Influencers
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
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Sometimes, Sharpie on scraps, done quickly and cheaply, says more than an AI-generated image ever could."
Bettina Makalintal for Eater: https://www.eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash
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Sometimes, Sharpie on scraps, done quickly and cheaply, says more than an AI-generated image ever could."
Bettina Makalintal for Eater: https://www.eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash
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If you care about #retrocomputing, and you use Google search, please add Break Into Chat as a "preferred source"!
Just click here:
https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=breakintochat.comDoing so will (hopefully) improve your search results, and help give BiC a much-needed signal boost!
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#atari #atarist #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #history #longreads #bbsing #textmode #computerhistory #gamedev #localnews #news
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If you care about #retrocomputing, and you use Google search, please add Break Into Chat as a "preferred source"!
Just click here:
https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=breakintochat.comDoing so will (hopefully) improve your search results, and help give BiC a much-needed signal boost!
You can add other news sites and blogs you trust, too.
#atari #atarist #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #history #longreads #bbsing #textmode #computerhistory #gamedev #localnews #news
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"In what probably struck friends and family as an act of lunacy, I quit my day job as an editor at this magazine and became a part-time waller." Matt Seaton for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/second-career-passion-life-meaning/687952/?src=longreads #art #craft #stone #walls #practice #rocks #longreads #essay
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"In what probably struck friends and family as an act of lunacy, I quit my day job as an editor at this magazine and became a part-time waller." Matt Seaton for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/second-career-passion-life-meaning/687952/?src=longreads #art #craft #stone #walls #practice #rocks #longreads #essay
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Q: What words do you overuse?
A: “Marginal,” “entrenched,” “booming,” “illicit.” Since writing about psychedelics, “radically” and “profoundly.”
Kimon de Greef, author of THE EGO TRIP 📚, answers this week's Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/07/28/questionnaire-kimon-de-greef/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Q: What words do you overuse?
A: “Marginal,” “entrenched,” “booming,” “illicit.” Since writing about psychedelics, “radically” and “profoundly.”
Kimon de Greef, author of THE EGO TRIP 📚, answers this week's Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/07/28/questionnaire-kimon-de-greef/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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"He wanted to see the night sky as Cleopatra might have seen it." Travis Diehl for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html?src=longreads #art #artists #astronomy #stars #longreads
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"He wanted to see the night sky as Cleopatra might have seen it." Travis Diehl for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html?src=longreads #art #artists #astronomy #stars #longreads
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Beyond Greece and Rome
A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads
#Essay #Longreads #History #Histodons #Archaeology #Ancient #Greece #Rome
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Beyond Greece and Rome
A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads
#Essay #Longreads #History #Histodons #Archaeology #Ancient #Greece #Rome
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #children #Education #kids #kidsthesedays #learning #longreads #Parenting #SocialMedia #Technology #TikTok
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #children #Education #kids #kidsthesedays #learning #longreads #Parenting #SocialMedia #Technology #TikTok
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/782380/ -
Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CA #Canada #Children #education #kids #kidsthesedays #learning #longreads #Parenting #SocialMedia #Technology #tiktok
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
Forget cheating on homework and chatbot friends. Some kids are getting in on a new AI trend: thinking…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CA #Canada #Children #education #kids #kidsthesedays #learning #longreads #Parenting #SocialMedia #Technology #tiktok
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In this week's #longreads Top 5:
• Loving a killer (The Guardian)
• GRASE under fire (Men's Health)
• The marvelous mundane (The Bitter Southerner)
• Texas on two wheels (Texas Highways)
• The man who would be T. rex king (Bloomberg Businessweek)https://longreads.com/2026/07/24/longreads-top-5-618/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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In this week's #longreads Top 5:
• Loving a killer (The Guardian)
• GRASE under fire (Men's Health)
• The marvelous mundane (The Bitter Southerner)
• Texas on two wheels (Texas Highways)
• The man who would be T. rex king (Bloomberg Businessweek)https://longreads.com/2026/07/24/longreads-top-5-618/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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"Once everyone was back at school on Tuesday, the high schoolers lawyered up during their lunch hour." Ara Rosenthal for @WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-redwood-bark-school-newspaper/?src=longreads #journalism #reporting #epstein #longreads
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"Once everyone was back at school on Tuesday, the high schoolers lawyered up during their lunch hour." Ara Rosenthal for @WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-redwood-bark-school-newspaper/?src=longreads #journalism #reporting #epstein #longreads
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan has insisted that the face-recognition system and array of surveillance cameras deployed…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #CA #cameras #Canada #longreads #privacy #security #surveillance #TaylorSwift
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/some-kids-will-never-think-ai-is-cool/
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/some-kids-will-never-think-ai-is-cool/
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark https://www.allforgardening.com/1892502/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/ #Cameras #garden #longreads #privacy #Security #surveillance #TaylorSwift
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark https://www.allforgardening.com/1892502/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/ #Cameras #garden #longreads #privacy #Security #surveillance #TaylorSwift
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
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"What shall we say of today? Better yet, what shall I say of today? That I will try to do better, perhaps. But Beckett hasn’t much patience for such resolutions." Robert Zaretsky for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/beckett-the-prophet/?src=longreads #samuelbeckett #godot #theater #art #writing #longreads
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"What shall we say of today? Better yet, what shall I say of today? That I will try to do better, perhaps. But Beckett hasn’t much patience for such resolutions." Robert Zaretsky for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/beckett-the-prophet/?src=longreads #samuelbeckett #godot #theater #art #writing #longreads
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-child-is-terrified-measles-doctors-speak-out/
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-child-is-terrified-measles-doctors-speak-out/
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"This is surely the most exciting development in the field of ancient history in many years." —Carlos Noreña for Aeon
https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads
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"This is surely the most exciting development in the field of ancient history in many years." —Carlos Noreña for Aeon
https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads
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"Phillips goes on to whip up his own batch with shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba oil, beeswax, and zinc oxide powder."
Brian Underwood for Men's Health: https://www.menshealth.com/health/a71867310/anti-sunscreen-movement
#Longreads #Misinformation #Science #Health #Sunscreen #Skincare
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"Phillips goes on to whip up his own batch with shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba oil, beeswax, and zinc oxide powder."
Brian Underwood for Men's Health: https://www.menshealth.com/health/a71867310/anti-sunscreen-movement
#Longreads #Misinformation #Science #Health #Sunscreen #Skincare
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-redwood-bark-school-newspaper/
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-redwood-bark-school-newspaper/
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"Conversations with people like Christina left me questioning whether this format of raving is really just a new beacon of wellness culture."
Kiana Mickles for Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/story/the-rise-of-the-corporate-rave
#Longreads #Rave #Techno #ElectronicMusic #Wellness #Subculture
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"Conversations with people like Christina left me questioning whether this format of raving is really just a new beacon of wellness culture."
Kiana Mickles for Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/story/the-rise-of-the-corporate-rave
#Longreads #Rave #Techno #ElectronicMusic #Wellness #Subculture
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"It wasn’t exceptional. Most of it looked to them to be copies of that other T. rex, Stan. And whatever this assembled specimen was, they were certain of one thing: It wasn’t worth $15 million." Devon Pendleton for Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-t-rex-fossils-obsession/?src=longreads #fossils #dinosaurs #trex #tyrannosaurusrex #auction #longreads
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"It wasn’t exceptional. Most of it looked to them to be copies of that other T. rex, Stan. And whatever this assembled specimen was, they were certain of one thing: It wasn’t worth $15 million." Devon Pendleton for Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-t-rex-fossils-obsession/?src=longreads #fossils #dinosaurs #trex #tyrannosaurusrex #auction #longreads
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By 2035, we’ll either be extinct, on the verge of unimaginable prosperity for all humanity or kind of the same, but more so. Pass the popcorn. Or wait until your robot butler can do it for you.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/john-lanchester/king-of-cannibal-island
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By 2035, we’ll either be extinct, on the verge of unimaginable prosperity for all humanity or kind of the same, but more so. Pass the popcorn. Or wait until your robot butler can do it for you.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/john-lanchester/king-of-cannibal-island
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"His sons said they were worried their father’s comfortable lifestyle would yield a 'luxury rap vibe,' with lyrics about being 'an older white rapper talking about drinking wine,' as Skyler put it."
Ben Sisario for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/arts/music/mike-d-new-album-beastie-boys.html
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"His sons said they were worried their father’s comfortable lifestyle would yield a 'luxury rap vibe,' with lyrics about being 'an older white rapper talking about drinking wine,' as Skyler put it."
Ben Sisario for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/arts/music/mike-d-new-album-beastie-boys.html
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"His first day on the team, his commander gestured to the American with a vest full of grenades and said, 'Stick with Giggles.'" Laura Beil for Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texan-risked-everything-defend-ukraine/?src=longreads #profiles #ukraine #russia #conflict #war #invasion #longreads
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"His first day on the team, his commander gestured to the American with a vest full of grenades and said, 'Stick with Giggles.'" Laura Beil for Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texan-risked-everything-defend-ukraine/?src=longreads #profiles #ukraine #russia #conflict #war #invasion #longreads
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/teenagers-running-trackflation/
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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/teenagers-running-trackflation/
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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