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Back to SearchMichael Jackson’s Confusing Legacy
Despite numerous allegations of child abuse in the years before his death, Michael Jackson’s songs can still get you tapping your foot. It can feel c…
2 years, 8 months ago
The First Actually Readable AI Novella
Stephen Marche is the author of Death Of An Author along with an entity known as "Aidan Marchine," which is a pseudonym for a suite of AI services. …
2 years, 8 months ago
No Free Parking
Henry Grabar is the author of the newly published Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. It does explain it, a lot more than you'd think. P…
2 years, 8 months ago
Twitter Thwarts Special Military Operations Against Russia
Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare and writer of the Substack Dog Shirt Daily, has been projecting Ukrainian messages onto the Russian Emba…
2 years, 8 months ago
Smart Guns Are Here
Guns that recognize specific users biometrics are almost ready to be shipped, as the firm Biofire is taking orders for their reliable, and forceful, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter
When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” it marked the end of…
2 years, 8 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Edmund Fitzgerald Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we remember singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed away on Monday, by revisiting a 2014 Spiel, in wh…
2 years, 8 months ago
From OKC To January 6th
Jeffrey Toobin, author of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, traces the ideology of right-wing extremism from the 1990s…
2 years, 8 months ago
Justice Comes To The Gist
It's Justice Day on The Gist. Justice for the Proud Boys, Ed Sheeran, and the question of defining justice for a man choked to death on the NYC subwa…
2 years, 8 months ago
Giannis Antetokounmpo's Epic Fail Denial
After an early round loss, NBA great Giannis Antetokounmpo had a much watched, quite heartfelt press conference in which he asserted that there's no …
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