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Local power and the social order

— American Genry, Patrick Wyman in Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future

Ellen More

— Ellen More, Wikipedia

This candle doesn't smell of anything

— Speculation: Scented Candle Ratings Down Due to Covid-19 Loss of Smell, Jason Kottke

The New York Public Library archives

— Keepers of the Secrets, James Somers in The Village Voice

The demographics of early UNIX users

— The Elements of Style: UNIX as Literature, Thomas Scoville

How I became a drag king in the Scottish folk scene

— To Feel Right, Amanda Chemeche in Popula

The daily paper in e-ink

— An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall, Alexander Klöpping

Why is there a cluster of tall buildings in the City of London?

— Why is there a cluster of tall buildings in the City of London?, in Diamond Geezer

Mask misinformation

— How a bizarre claim about masks has lived on for months, Olga Khazan in The Atlantic

Grapefruits are weird

— Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet, Dan Nosowitz in Atlas Obscura

Signs your story is classist

— Five signs your story is classist, Chris Winkle in Mythcreants

Evicted in the pandemic

— His Landlord Evicted Him During The Pandemic And Then Demanded $1,100 For Him To Get His Belongings, Vanessa Wong in BuzzFeed News

The Internet Is For End Users

— The Internet Is For End Users, Mark Nottingham in Internet Architecture Board RFCs

Artemisia Gentileschi

— A Fuller Picture of Artemisia Gentileschi, Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker

Chinese women's writing

— Women's writing: dead or alive, Victor Mair in Language Log

V. Krishna and the making of an English-Kannada dictionary

— Alar: The making of an open source dictionary, Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha

A man's losses in the Oregon wildfires

— The desperate fight to save his family ends in tragedy, Capi Lynn in Statesman Journal

The New York Accent

— Tawk of the Town, Patricia T O' Conner in Literary Review

Judith Butler on JK Rowling and the trans culture war

— Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”, Alona Ferber in The New Statesman

The data scientist who didn't have time to stop all the coups

— “I Have Blood On My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation, Craig Silverman, Ryan Mac, and Pranav Dixit in BuzzFeed News

Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice

— Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74, Cade Metz in The New York Times

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make

— The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make, Caleb Schwarf in Nautilus

It's very hard to tear down a bridge

— Robert Caro Wonders What New York Is Going To Become , Christopher Robbins in Gothamist via Kottke