The Great Compression - Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us ( www.nytimes.com )
(gift link, not mine)
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it ( gothamist.com )
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe ( www.propublica.org )
Private Equity Backed Firm is Ruining Bowling ( jacobin.com )
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids in the US to be poor readers ( www.apmreports.org )
When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row - For men awaiting execution in Texas, illicit games of Dungeons & Dragons became a lifeline. ( www.themarshallproject.org )
Back then, death row for men was located in a prison near Huntsville, Texas, where hundreds lived in tiny cells. The men were allowed to hang out together, watch television, play basketball and go to work at prison jobs. And because they were locked behind bars rather than solid doors, they could call out to one another and...
What Is the History of Fascism in the United States? ( www.thenation.com )
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need (2023 Pulitzer nomination) ( www.statnews.com )
This is part 1 of an ongoing investigative series....
Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them. ( www.nbcnews.com )
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet - At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. ( archive.ph )
Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world's largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that...
I Went Undercover as a Secret Only fans Chatter ( www.wired.com )
Click Here to Kill, by Brian Merchant ( harpers.org )
A fascinating investigation into hitman websites on the dark web, and what would lead someone to pour thousands of dollars into such shady websites hoping to kill an ex.
Children Risk Their Lives Building America’s Roofs (Pulitzer Prize winner) ( archive.ph )
This is part 5 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings ( archive.ph )
This is part 3 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. ( archive.ph )
Part 1 of a 2023 Pultizer-winning article series by Hannah Dreier...
The life and death of E3 ( www.gamesindustry.biz )
Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. ( acoup.blog )
This is a 7-part series of blog posts, written by a history professor, contrasting the realities of ancient Sparta with it's depictions in popular culture.
A 75km hike through 'the Graveyard of the Pacific' ( www.bbc.com )
The “Disney adult” industrial complex ( www.newstatesman.com )
Lost Highway, by Emily Gogolak ( harpers.org )
Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor ( archive.ph )
This is part 2 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
The Marked Man: an innocent man's exoneration after 37 years in prison revealed a rash of serial killings in 1983 Tampa ( www.tampabay.com )
The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (13 chapters) ( www.otherhand.org )
How Scientology doubled its downtown Clearwater footprint in 3 years ( projects.tampabay.com )
The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge ( tylervigen.com )
An unimportant mystery
