Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack is among the most important documentation I’m reading these days. All eyes on Gaza and the West Bank.
I recently looked into ELVTR, trying to decide whether it was a scam, when I (unwisely) shared my contact info and was repeatedly contacted by a rep whose name I then Googled. And I found him here: Diamonds, Dior and Dubai Vacations: The Luxurious Lives of Georgia’s Call-Center Scammers | Organized Crime and Reporting Project.
“It’s not a book set in Kansas, but against it. It is not a book that a Kansan would want to read, it is a book for New Yorkers who want to think they understand the red states.” Jessa Crispin | The Topeka Fools | The Baffler.
Emma Loffhagen | The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell | The Guardian “Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences.”
“Today, a Bluesky user shared a photograph of what appears to be a summer reading insert published in this Sunday’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. The feature looks normal enough, until you actually read it and discover that only five of the fifteen books recommended by this supposedly legitimate newspaper “to deliver the perfect summer escape” are actually, um, real.” Emily Temple | Looks like The Chicago Sun-Times used AI to write a reading list—and wound up with slop. | Literary Hub
Nick Ripatrazone | He Was Laughed Out of Academia for This Take About Technology. Turns Out He Was Right. | Slate
“Marshall McLuhan was warning us about the internet long before it was invented.”
Niall O’Dowd | The English land agent who inspired the “boycott” in 19th-century Ireland | Irish Central
Charles Cunningham Boycott, who died on June 19, 1897, was an English land agent who became infamous in Ireland.
