A list of good reads
- Reddit’s massive growth is a scary story about Google’s power. New York Magazine explains why you should care.
- Slate dives into why the big iPhone upgrade—bringing Apple’s new AI to your phone—could be its riskiest bet yet.
- Archive.org—the internet’s historian since 1994—was crippled by a vicious cyber attack. Brownstone Institute explains why we should be worried about internet censorship.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has an eye-opening exclusive on how X’s algorithm pushes political content to users, even if they don’t want it.
- NPR offers a rare glimpse into life in Omdurman—a city that reveals the brutal reality of Sudan’s brutal war.
- In Indian Express, columnist Bibek Debroy wrote his own obituary four days before he passed away. It’s a sad read of a seemingly lonely life.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) warns against the perils of plastic spatulas in your kitchen.
- Mehwash Hussain in The Hindu pens an ode to Kolkata trams—which may soon become history.
- AFAR has a fascinating profile on cruise ship historian and preservationist Peter Knego, which includes his many trips to an Indian shipbreaking yard—Alang.
- Vogue explains why we can’t get enough of celebs who couple up with a “normal person”.
- Jancis Robinson in Financial Times (splainer gift link) asks whether the demonisation of alcohol is justified.
- Popular Mechanics introduces us to the CO2-hungry algae ‘Chonkus’, which is trying to end the climate crisis.
