Longform links: in search of meat
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
2 days ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms that Run Your Life” by Noah Giansiracusa. (lithub.com)
- A Q&A with Scott Alan Lucas, author of “Last Night in San Francisco: Tech’s Lost Promise and the Murder of Bob Lee.” (slate.com)
- An excerpt from “Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts” by Gregory M. Walton. (biopharmadive.com)
- An excerpt from “The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science,” by Carly Anne York. (undark.org)
Business
- A look at the fulfillment models in the modern grocery delivery business. (platformaeronaut.com)
- How shoemaker Keen is trying to mitigate the downside of tariffs. (nytimes.com)
- How the gun industry markets its products. (thetrace.org)
- How many companies have hired a remote North Korean worker? (axios.com)
Cities
- Noah Smith, “There’s simply no other town in America that looks and feels like NYC.” (noahpinion.blog)
- Thomas Pueyo, “The history of Moscow is the history of Russia.” (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Fitness
- A look at the great American fitness boom. (derekthompson.org)
- How the rise of pickleball helps explain America. (derekthompson.org)
Social media
- Julia Alexander, “Our new truth is as simple as it is distressing: we used to seek out information to help deepen our thinking, and now we expect information to find and think for us.” (postingnexus.substack.com)
- Social media platforms have transitioned into endless streams of ‘entertainment.’ (noemamag.com)
Longreads
- Thomas Lecaque, “There are beautiful, inspiring stories in the American past. But there are also these many horrors, dark shadows right alongside the bright. A historian’s duty is to see them all, not to cover our eyes and ears and tell only uplifting stories.” (thebulwark.com)
- Toronto and Vancouver’s condo boom is over. (macleans.ca)
- Distressed towns are at uniquely at-risk from slick talking corporate execs. (floodlightnews.org)
- How worried should we be about facial recognition technology? (harpers.org)
- The pursuit of protein explains a lot of human history. (granta.com)
- How China imports Russian oil. (on.ft.com)
- Funding cuts have disrupted the malnutrition aid pipeline. (nytimes.com)
- How the South took over culture in America. (bloomberg.com)
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