"A poker player might need to study eight other people at their table. A mheibes captain takes stock of perhaps 45 distinct opponents—or, really, 90 different fists." Jason Anthony for The Atlantic #longreads #games #iraq https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/mheibes-iraq-game/682901/?src=longreads
#longReads
"'What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?' Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. 'It looks like an additional monthly user.'"
Kashmir Hill for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html
#Longreads #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Technology #ChatBot #MentalHealth
"Karoni left her father’s funeral still asking where he was. It was a question she’d dedicate her life to answering."
Josh Alvarez for Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/final-flight-captain-forrester/
#Longreads #War #VietnamWar #Marines #History #Military #MIA #Texas #Missing
"His circle grew smaller and, to people more accustomed to a traditional Defense Department, stranger."
Kerry Howley for New York magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-pentagon-leaks-signalgate-trump.html
#Longreads #MAGA #NewYork #Pentagon #Politics #Trump #Signalgate #PeteHegseth
The first trial of its kind: A Russian soldier takes the stand for an execution
New on Longreads: An excerpt from THE ENDURING WILD, Josh Jackson's forthcoming book on California's BLM lands—millions of forgotten "leftover" acres of public wilderness. Out on June 24 from Heyday Books 📚
#Longreads #Books #BLM #California #Travel #RoadTrip #Nature #Outdoors #Wilderness
When Therapy Didn’t Work, I Turned to an Illegal Drug
“Attempting to reconstruct the history of early humanity from the available evidence is, it has been said, akin to trying to divine the plot of War and Peace from just 13 of its pages, picked at random.”
👀 On our radar: A vicious dispute raging over fossils of human ancestors // Scott Sayare, The Guardian
"It was only at the burial that I was told how much I had – and there is no better term for this – smashed it." —Alex Taylor for The Fence Magazine
https://www.the-fence.com/i-write-eulogies-not-tragedies/?src=longreads
In this week's #longreads Top 5:
• A father, a son, a tragedy (The Guardian)
• The cost of capital punishment (The Atlantic)
• Criminal justice, unjustly (CalMatters)
• Gaming without sight (Wired)
• An unvarnished icon (The Yale Review)
Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
https://longreads.com/2025/06/13/longreads-top-567/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
"We want time to be gentle, but not to stop."
A pick from the Nautilus archives, from David Shultz: https://nautil.us/the-gravekeepers-paradox-235340/
#Longreads #Death #Cemetery #Cemeteries #Burial #Tombstone #Stone #Decay #Ruins
"It’s not that Max is a slow learner: it’s that he has so much more to learn. Where other kids seek a driving licence, he is tasked with the invention of the internal combustion engine." —Archie Bland for The Guardian
#parents #disability #disabled #fatherhood #writing #nonfiction #longreads
"It turns out almost everybody has an opinion on Wilson’s supposed genius, or on Pet Sounds as evidence of it, or both."
Revisit this #longreads reading list on #BrianWilson, by Cecilia Gigliotti: https://longreads.com/2022/03/03/let-go-of-your-ego-a-reading-list-on-brian-wilson-and-pet-sounds/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
"Close to half of California’s 58 counties do not employ any full-time public defense investigators."
Anat Rubin for CalMatters: https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/public-defense-investigators/
#Longreads #TrueCrime #California #PublicDefense #Investigation #Justice #Injustice #Legal #Law #SiskiyouCounty
"The harsh reality of boom-and-bust gold mining becomes clear: The brief boom benefited only a fortunate few. The bust was for everyone else."
NEW on Longreads: An excerpt from Josh Jackson's new book, THE ENDURING WILD, out on June 24 from Heyday Books:
#Longreads #Books #California #Gold #GoldMining #BLM #Wilderness #Outdoors
"Today’s L.A., a few say, feels more like a Rust Belt crater than the glamorous capital of the world’s entertainment."
Lane Brown for Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/hollywood-movies-film-industry-los-angeles-california-production.html
#Longreads #Hollywood #LosAngeles #California #Film #Television #Entertainment
One of those rare stories one stumbles upon that leaves you feeling better,
much better for having read it all the way through to the end...
"They can’t answer the question. They don’t have original thoughts. They just parrot back what they’ve heard in TikToks. They try to show me 'information' ChatGPT gave them."
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
#Longreads #Education #AI #ChatGPT #Teachers #Teaching #Technology
"They were all men and they stuck out because they displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world, who are always in motion, and who mostly looked different from one another."
Liz Veazey for n+1: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/at-immigration-court/
“‘Are the pouches one size fits all?’ Giselle, a cheery woman in her forties from Yorkshire, England, asked. ‘No, there are different pouch profiles,’ Duenyas replied diplomatically.’”
Jennifer Wilson for The New Yorker #movies #tv #sex #longreads https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/how-i-learned-to-become-an-intimacy-coordinator?src=longreads
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