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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
submitted 1 week ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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or, the exhaustion of a blind user

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Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter (madeinchinajournal.com)
submitted 1 week ago by jqubed@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525

An interesting history of a brilliant machine thought lost and the man who created it, and the mundane forces of history that kept it from the world.

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What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? (aeon.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (pluralistic.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Stained, warped and terroir rich: the global and shockingly sustainable lives of wine barrels (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
submitted 1 month ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’ (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Redditor Accidentally Reinvents Discarded '90s Tool to Escape Today's Age Gates (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Eccentric@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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The Firefighter With O.C.D. and the Vaccine He Believed Would Kill Him (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his secret was forced out in the open.

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Me and My Censor: How censorship works in China (madeinchinajournal.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Why Is Social Connection So Hard for Young Adults? (greatergood.berkeley.edu)
submitted 1 month ago by Bee@mander.xyz to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Young people are struggling with mental health and relationships, but there are small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.

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We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus (www.antipope.org)
submitted 1 month ago by AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Are We All Living Beyond Our Means Now? With rising costs of living, debt, and the doomscroll-to-checkout pipeline, we’re overspending more than ever. (archive.is)
submitted 1 month ago by moistclump@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Why is imagining a positive future crucial for progress? (www.weforum.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ice@slrpnk.net to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Secrets & Wives (archive.ph)
submitted 2 months ago by moistclump@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. This true story picks up right where Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ left off.

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The Fugitive Mind: My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters. (quillette.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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51 min read

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The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (archive.today)
submitted 2 months ago by Bell@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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The Gen X Career Meltdown (archive.ph)
submitted 2 months ago by moistclump@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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Bubble Trouble (prospect.org)
submitted 2 months ago by RGB@group.lt to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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https://archive.ph/iWtPK Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

by Bryan McMahon March 25, 2025

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The End of Children - The New Yorker (archive.ph)
submitted 2 months ago by moistclump@lemmy.world to c/longreads@sh.itjust.works
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