On July 26 Donald Trump played a round of golf at his own Turnberry course in Scotland. Over footage of the event from Sky News, we hear a reporter shouting, “Mr. Trump, can you escape the Jeffrey Epstein crisis?” At that point in the clip, the volume surges on the song Trump’s large entourage is […]
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Two decades of anorexia obscured who I was beneath my sickness. Then a stranger saw me
- by Miranda Gold
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
- by Cathy Mason
An early peep for this year’s peak
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Unlike most spiders, they lack venom-filled fangs
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In 2022, the Swedish digital bank and fintech giant Klarna laid off 700 permanent staff, hoping to replace the expertise and energies of hundreds of employees with a single, rational AI assistant that would apparently handle millions of different consumer conversations in dozens of languages. Yet the bots didn’t work out; almost immediately, customers began […]
Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has touted the endorsement of a notorious “rabbi” whose refusal to address accusations that he molested a child led to a major schism within the Black Hebrew Israelite community in the US. The mayor boasted of the endorsement in a August 11 Instagram post which was edited hours later to remove any […]
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President Trump’s “federalization” of Washington, D.C., is a test of the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy.
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Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that everything that once brought you joy is only really worthwhile if it punishes you?
Then strap in, because it’s time to invest in REAL chocolate. Chocolate that comes in flavors like:
This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit. It was handcrafted next to a rusty fire escape in Brooklyn by stone-cold motherfuckers with nothing to lose. It hardened from its molten state in a kitchen that moonlights as an unlicensed kickboxing arena.
It’s a confection with unresolved trauma, and it knows Muay Thai.
The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hard hat and safety vest works for ICE.
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Q: You were laid off from the National Weather Service amid all the DOGE cuts, correct?
A: Yes. And they haven’t hired anyone new to do my job.
Q: Which was?
A: The National Weather Service’s Director of “Feels Like.” You know how when there’s a heat wave, you hear that the actual temp is eighty-five degrees but it “feels like” it’s ninety-nine? That was me. Since the 1980s, the “feels like” temp was based on my determinations.
Q: And how were these determinations reached?
A: By considering a variety of factors: heat index, wind chill, dew point, solar intensity, the director’s discretion…
Q: Discretion? So you’re saying “feels like” is partially a subjective measure?
A: No, I am saying that the Weather Service, until this administration came along, entrusted me with the job because I have a decades-long track record of empathic temperature-vibing. A single-digit January day in Chicago may be no colder than a single-digit November day. But in January, the Christmas lights have come down, and the Bears are washed. So you know for damn sure that it feels like it’s twelve below.
Most cults don’t make the headlines. Here’s how to identify, and avoid, control by psychologically coercive social groups
- Video by BBC Ideas
In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head
- by Aeon Video
Disclosing acts of kindness could encourage even more altruism – if we can find a way around the awkwardness
- by Jerry Richardson
At the heart of surfing, whether you’re a kook or a famous charger, is the pursuit of moments so pure they clean you out
- by M M Owen
Cemeteries are a gravely overlooked habitat for wild orchids in Europe
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