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Ernie Smith
(Hunting for the end of the long tail @readtedium. (Seen on @motherboard, @atlasobscura, and @neatorama) Formerly @ShortFormBlog. (A @ManifestDigital guy, too!))
The New York Times
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Robin Pogrebin
– Sep 14, 2019, 10:55 AM
Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there. A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but socialized little. She was raised Catholic and had a sheltered upbringing. In…
The New York Times
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Nellie Bowles
– Sep 14, 2019, 2:00 AM
It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying. Mr. Lessig is a friend of Joichi Ito, who resigned as the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, as…
MIT bigwig Richard Stallman dismissed Epstein's underage victims in emails and defended child pornography on his blog. While MIT engages in damage control following revelations the university's Media Lab accepted millions of dollars in funding from…
“At least seven people” were aware of the story that Brett Kavanaugh had drunkenly exposed his penis to an unwilling Yale classmate, who ended up touching it while trying to avoid him, the New York Times reported. In an excerpt from…
To be a parent is to be compromised. You pledge allegiance to justice for all, you swear that private attachments can rhyme with the public good, but when the choice comes down to your child or an abstraction—even the well-being of children…