← Ifrah Khanyaree
Things I've read and loved.
My internet bookshelf
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2026
The Solution to the Reading Crisis
The Stable Marriage Problem and the Gale-Shapley Algorithm
What the Metaphor of 'Rewiring' Gets Wrong About Neuroplasticity
America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Power Without a Throne: How Khalifa Haftar Controls Libya
Where Duolingo Falls Down: How I Learned to Speak Welsh with My Mother
lol I'm Trying to Tell You How It Feels for Me
The People Training the AI That Will Replace Them
Sam Altman May Control Our Future. Can He Be Trusted?
The Creation of Instant Coffee
When It Comes to AI Metaphors, Let's Drop the Nuclear Bomb
Seven Days in Lagos
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2025
Sleeping Women
The Facial Harmonisation Trend
Funny Curiosity
Why Europe Struggles with Defense
The Loneliness Industry
How Biden and Blinken Abandoned Their Human Rights Principles on Gaza
I Got a Bespoke Suit. Here's What It Taught Me About Men.
What Happened When I Quit Sugar
The Young Men Helping Elon Musk Gut the Government
The Long Quest for Artificial Blood
Homeless in America
Instagram Reels Are Bad and You Know It
Have We All Just Agreed to Live with Soul-Crushing Racism?
Christian Nationalism's Latest Voter Suppression Scheme
Hello Brave New World
Life, Death, and Sourdough
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
AI Is Making Your Brain Worse
The Long Dead Extremist Who Controls Israel
A Letter from Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil
The Limits of Fashion and Style as a Moral Barometer
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported
Friends Missed
Do What You Can't
Ideas That Cannot Be Spoken
The Secret Tax on Women's Time
How to Unburden Yourself
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2024
Can AI Change Your Mind? Chatbots and Persuasion
How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class
High Performers Share Their Point of View
The Race to Repair the Internet's Underwater Backbone
Sinking Town
I Wrote the Magna Carta, and You Can Too
Suleika Jaouad Has Made a Life in the Margins
The Godfather of A.I. Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
Where the Wild Things Are: The Untapped Potential of Our Gardens
Erik Prince's Secret Far-Right Group Chat
A Village Tries to Hold Together After October 7th
The Birkenstock Dynasty
Outbreeding the Liberals
Entire Family Branches Wiped Out in Gaza
How Abiy Ahmed Squandered His Nobel Peace Prize
The Power of Being a Late Bloomer
How One Man Disappeared
The Delicate Art of Treating ADHD
I Made One New Friend in One Month
Stop Calling Yourself an IC
Fear as a Game
Land of Five Rivers
Can Immunotherapy Beat Brain Cancer?
Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War?
The Case for Criminalizing Scientific Misconduct
My Family and Other Nazis
The Expanding Overton Window
Pseudonyms and Agency
Research as Leisure Activity
My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge
Software Branding
What Are You Going to Do with That?
The Trial of Björn Höcke
Moving Towards Life: June Jordan's Activism
Google Ads Are Funding Disinformation
How Might We Learn?
Building Neighbourhood Communities
Coming to America
The Agitator: A Profile of Silvia Federici
The Joy of Being Part of a Child's Life
The Temu Croissant Lamp Truth
There Is No Shame Worse Than Poor Teeth in a Rich World
The Murdering Woodsman
The Best Antibiotic for Acne Is No Antibiotic at All
Culture Studies
The Cookout
Why Brutal Prison Design Kills Off Hope
The Field Guide to Non-Engagement Signals
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine and His Own Long Ignorance
South Korean Adoptions: A Troubling History
Plutocrat Archipelagos
The Last Weed Dealer in New York
The Depths: A Profile of Alenka Artnik
Forget Gladwell
The Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Clutter
Avatar Therapy in Acute Psychosis
The Ancient Brain Collector
Octavia Butler on the Paradox of Leaders
The Magical Act of a Desperate Person
The Afghan Cyclists Who Escaped the Taliban
What Running the NYC Marathon Taught Me
Santa Maria: The Story Behind Migrant Mother
The Man Who Photographed Nazi-Occupied France in Secret
Why Young Men Are Going Far Right
Making Change Without Having to Be
On Authenticity
The Great Abandonment
There Is Some Kind of Scientific Method
The Influencer Suing Over a Stolen Aesthetic
Running Through a War
The Case for Design Criticism
A Cartography of Genocide
An Answer Nonetheless
The Good Traitor: Carl von Ossietzky
Posting Less
Fake Teeth
The Last Wish
Do Pictures Tell the Truth?
Never Going Back
How Syria's Civil War Ended