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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
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
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 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
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 New York Accent
— Tawk of the Town, Patricia T O' Conner in Literary Review
A man's losses in the Oregon wildfires
— The desperate fight to save his family ends in tragedy, Capi Lynn in Statesman Journal
V. Krishna and the making of an English-Kannada dictionary
— Alar: The making of an open source dictionary, Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha
Chinese women's writing
— Women's writing: dead or alive, Victor Mair in Language Log
Artemisia Gentileschi
— A Fuller Picture of Artemisia Gentileschi, Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker
The Internet Is For End Users
— The Internet Is For End Users, Mark Nottingham in Internet Architecture Board RFCs
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
Signs your story is classist
— Five signs your story is classist, Chris Winkle in Mythcreants
Grapefruits are weird
— Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet, Dan Nosowitz in Atlas Obscura
Mask misinformation
— How a bizarre claim about masks has lived on for months, Olga Khazan in The Atlantic
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
The daily paper in e-ink
— An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall, Alexander Klöpping
How I became a drag king in the Scottish folk scene
— To Feel Right, Amanda Chemeche in Popula
The demographics of early UNIX users
— The Elements of Style: UNIX as Literature, Thomas Scoville
The New York Public Library archives
— Keepers of the Secrets, James Somers in The Village Voice
This candle doesn't smell of anything
— Speculation: Scented Candle Ratings Down Due to Covid-19 Loss of Smell, Jason Kottke
Ellen More
— Ellen More, Wikipedia
Local power and the social order
— American Genry, Patrick Wyman in Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future