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"This is the story of how 34 generations of Shaolin warrior history trained a once-in-a-generation NBA superstar."
After the flood, twisted roles, the joy of emptiness, data disasters, and family road trips.
"He was locked up for a dangerous infatuation. Nothing was as it seemed."
My brother’s murder and its aftermath.
"Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses."
"Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?"
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
"A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas."
Complicating a "mixed blessing" of the opioid crisis: a rise in organ donations.
"As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?"
"The desert has a changeling effect, transforming lights into magic, desert into space, visitors into lovers, me into something apart from what I actually am."
"On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me."
"In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music, the present moment is an astonishing, improbable gift."
"Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco."
"In some ways, the world is cooked. But being a twelve-year-old still kind of eats."
We’re recommending stories by Danny Chau, Annalisa Quinn, Bijan Stephen, Jordan Michelman, and Anna Wiener.
"On any given day I was seen as both valuable and disposable, sometimes oscillating between these in the same hour."
"Scaling the world’s highest mountain is a very different experience than it was when I climbed it."
"Men come to me for sex, yes. But in an age of profound loneliness and disconnection, they turn out to be looking for so much more."
"A guerrilla artist has made the Eastside his canvas. His medium: Strange signs."
"Every winter, tens of thousands of Americans migrate to public lands in the Arizona desert. For a growing number, it's not a vacation—it’s the only housing they can afford."
Five stories on the overwhelming, profound art of caring for other people.
"'Clippers' cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?"
"For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables."
"AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up."
"Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars."
On what a dying patch of turfgrass can teach us about water scarcity, ecological repair, and the lies we tell ourselves about success.
"Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle."
"In the days after last July’s historic disaster, I wrote about the tragedy that befell my family. But crawling out of the river was only the beginning."
"Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."