Impressively thorough, nuanced reporting from @nytimes.com, @typeinvestigations.org and @floodlightnews.org: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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“… we should also try to spend less time stuck in our heads and more time out in the world, pursuing the kinds of activities that support mental health without making us so obsessed with it.” For mental health, try exercise and volunteering: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
Opinion | Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life
We need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.
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“…to throw out the SAT and ACT because they show demographic gaps is akin to canceling the government’s publication of the unemployment rate because it shows similar gaps. Trying to deny a problem rarely helps solve it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
Opinion | A Great University Undermines Its Mission
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I am begging everyone to actually read this story. The details are RIGHT THERE. ASU Atomic is: - not just impacting adjuncts - very much enabled by Canvas - neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening - inexplicably open to the public - hot garbage
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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"We continue to have terrible judgment, flawed communication, a fondness for incapacitating agents, and a violently eroticized contempt for the feminine." S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?
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“In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder.” When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
Brian Groh@briangroh.bsky.social · 7mo agoAn essay of mine appeared in The New York Times today, related to a book project I’m working on. You can read it here: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
I have a new book review up for the @coloradoreview.bsky.social – check it out! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/fore...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange - Center for Literary Publishing
$27.99 Buy Book About the Book Author: Katie GohReviewed By: Chloe Lutts JensenGenre: NonfictionPublisher: Tin HousePublished: 2025Pages: 240 Book ReviewEarly in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of t...
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✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨ Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest: manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
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Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Eliza Gilbert
Visit the post for more.
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Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
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I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...
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Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus - The Forge Literary Magazine
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus, flash fiction by Susan Rose April
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"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️🔥 Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Little Death Born Again — Split Lip Magazine
The whole congregation, apart from a few noobs recruited at last night’s street-preach, knows the story of Mary Magdalene washing Christ’s feet with her tears. How on bended knee she wiped them clean ...
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Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
New Online Issue: The Pornhub Literary Supplement — Barrelhouse
Our new online issue is tailored for the sophisticated consumer of online smut and similar, interested in elevating their online browsing habits to the highest level.
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Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
Hayden's Ferry Review@haydensferryreview.bsky.social · last yr.New on the blog: Chloe Jensen @cljensen.bsky.social asks 3 questions of Sylvia Chan, author of "We Remain Traditional" and an essay in our latest issue haydensferryreview.com/blog/3-quest...
“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.” Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex
In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.
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"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough." @oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better: ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghk5m...
The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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In a delightfully contrarian article for @newyorker.com , Daniel Immerwahr argues (persuasively!) that our panic over attention spans is just the latest episode in a long history of hand-wringing over what people are paying attention TO. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
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HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest opens February 1! Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
“Like a chess pawn or kangaroo, I biologically lack the capacity to backpedal.” A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
Fix Your Glutes. Fix Your Life.
I didn’t appreciate their utility — and paid for it.
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“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Abandon Fact-Checking
From the daily newsletter: Facebook and Instagram’s new approach to the facts. Plus: Jimmy Carter rests; why Justin Trudeau had to step down; and the view from the limo driver.
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“I thought I would live here for a year, maybe two.” Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas
The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
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My favorite books of the year included novels by @rkr.bsky.social and @colsonwhitehead.com and story collections by Leigh Newman and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Here are 11 of my favorites, and why you might like them too: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Read @novicsara.bsky.social on signing in @thebaffler.com "Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations." thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
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