Longform links: the digital biosphere
2 weeks ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- A Q&A with Alok Sama author of “The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble.” (semafor.com)
- An excerpt from “Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists and Dunces who Burned Down the House,” by Dana Milbank. (wapo.st)
- A look at “Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church” by Gareth Gore. (nymag.com)
- A Q&A with Elsa Richardson’s new book “Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut.” (atlasobscura.com)
Government
- John Lanchester, “The simplest way to imagine how hard it is to come up with the CPI is to ask how you would do it for yourself.” (wapo.st)
- Dave Eggers, “This is government-funded research to determine how the universe was created and whether we are alone in it. If NASA and JPL were not doing it, it would not be done.” (wapo.st)
Entertainment
- Think of Francis Ford Coppola as an entrepreneur, not just an auteur. (readtrung.com)
- Horror films are bigger than ever, but have they lost something along the way? (thebaffler.com)
- Celebrities with an addiction problem, like Matthew Perry, are targets for all manner of bad actors. (hollywoodreporter.com)
- A profile of comedian Hasan Minhaj. (esquire.com)
Longreads
- Does Softbank’s Masayoshi Son have another reinvention in him? (on.ft.com)
- Not everything is bad for the entertainment industry, including people’s willingness to sit through ads. (bloomberg.com)
- For the investment in AI to pay off, it is going to have to replace human workers. (stratechery.com)
- How civilization is entwined with rivers. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
- How bots killed online poker. (bloomberg.com)
- The case for focusing on fewer things. (collabfund.com)
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