I love reading.  Here's a curated list of digital articles I've enjoyed this year so far

2024

15.4.2024

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.14380.pdf - GenAI chatbots persuade people to rethink their stances on arguments

16.04.2024

• https://www.noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class/ - Perspective on AI & the drama around it taking away our jobs. Basically comparison to the industrial revolution and how it encouraged development of new frontiers/kinds of work we as humans do. Also hopes for improvement in shortages of workers in healthcare and education

21.04

• https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/high-performers-share-their-point-of-view - Already summarized in the newsletter but how to share a gut feeling without it being superficial. Phrase your opinion in that way “I have a hunch v I know”, describe the problem you’re thinking of and focus less on the solution, try to gather evidence or say how you can do it

22.04

• https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships - In depth report on one of the “few” sailboat crews that repair underwater cabling for internet.

21.05

• https://granta.com/sinking-town/ : How the small town of Joshimath is struggling because of the development of a dam on the Alaknanda river

• https://www.noemamag.com/i-wrote-the-magna-carta-and-you-can-too/ - concept of direct democracies (real life example is Switzerland: https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik-geschichte/politisches-system/direkte-demokratie.html)

01.06

• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/suleika-jaouad-writer-health-cancer/678210/: Profile of Suleika Jaouad on living life with a chronic illness and still living fully
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/geoffrey-hinton-profile-ai: Profile of Geoffery Hinton, AI pioneer

02.06

• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/28/where-the-wild-things-are-the-untapped-potential-of-our-gardens-parks-and-balconies - Climate change and how small green spaces can make a difference  
• https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leashl  - Expose on Off Leash, a whatsapp group of far right leaning politicians, business people and what they’ve been saying re: Palestine, Biden, Iran and the state of US politics

21.06

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/wahat-al-salam-neve-shalom-israel-gaza-october-7th - Chronicles some fractures in a special community village of Israelis/Palestinians after the events on Oct 7th
• https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-birkenstock-dynasty -  The rise of Birkenstocks across the world
• https://lyz.substack.com/p/outbreeding-the-liberals - How eugenics can show up in “less” obvious ways (here in reference to Christians wanting to breed out anyone that isn’t them)
• https://apnews.com/article/gaza-palestinians-families-israel-war-deaths-a9f8bcfe402c17f1f78903eae67b7a7d - How entire Gazan family tree branches have been killed since Oct 7th

22.06

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/abiy-ahmed-ethiopia-eritrea-tigray-nobel-peace-prize-to-civil-war - About Abiy Ahmed, president of Ethiopia and how he did not live up to his Nobel peace prize

30.06

• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/successs-late-bloomers-motivation/678798/ - About why some people are late bloomers & how they behave after they’ve found their “thing”

21.07

• https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/ - How a WIRED writer tried to disappear and failed
• https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/16/a-diagnosis-can-sweep-away-guilt-the-delicate-art-of-treating-adhd “We’ve started labelling too much that is negative or distressing as a disorder.” How ADHD diagnosis has seen a drastic increase and why this could be and what could be done instead

22.07

• https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a61536364/one-friend-in-one-month
• https://robinrendle.com/notes/stop-calling-yourself-an-ic/ 

27.07

• https://www.thebeliever.net/fear-as-a-game/ - Describe fear, the feeling as a game. “The struggle is now aesthetic.”
• https://hazlitt.net/longreads/land-five-rivers 

29.07

• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cancer-treatment-immunotherapy-oncology-tcells-brain-tumor.html - Immunotherapy for glioblastoma -  Genetically altered T-cells show promise in putting glioblastoma into remission

01.08

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/29/will-hezbollah-and-israel-go-to-war 

09.08

• https://chris-said.io/2024/06/17/the-case-for-criminalizing-scientific-misconduct/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email - A blog from an academic describing how severe an effect scientific misconduct can have on normal life, and what to do about it

10.08

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis?utm_term=66a4b71897e057d2245e25c9267dacf6&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email - Story of the author’s Nazi family

25.08

• https://interconnected.org/home/2024/06/21/overton?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email - A fun little look into what we think  is weird might be expanding
• https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/pseudonyms-and-agency - how pseudonyms  might help one get out of the worry/stress/restraint  that comes with trying to put your work out there

30.08

• https://www.personalcanon.com/p/research-as-leisure-activity - My non-book reading hobby explained in a nutshell. I have never felt so validated
• https://laurelschwulst.com/e/my-website-is-a-shifting-house/ - What is a website?
• https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/software-branding - Branding as a stand out feature across softwares

31.08

• https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-that-erik-baker-college-education/?_bhlid=e1e823441c7ff1577b3cff4b1113a0c5aee7ae7a - Discourse around college education and who it serves
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/the-trial-of-bjorn-hocke-the-real-boss-of-germany-far-right?utm_term=66d2db9ca5dbaf9630cd9d6775a3804f&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email - Rise of Bjorn Hocke and his trial

02.09

• https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/moving-towards-life/ - The poet June Jordan’s activism for Palestine
• https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/29/google-ads-funding-disinformation-india/ - How Google & co. allow conspiracy theories to flourish and benefit news outlets that push them out
• https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/ - A new innovative way to learn, using AI, immersive & repetitive learning

07.09

• https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/building-neighborhood-communities  - How everyday  people are building neighbourhood communities
• https://magazine.atavist.com/coming-to-america-gaza-israel-layan-albaz-child-amputees/ - Story of Layan who was permanently disabled by the IDF, getting treatment in the US
• https://hazlitt.net/longreads/agitator - Profile of Silvia Federici. “The feminist movement is so segmented that it appears we don’t have a common ground” “The older I get, I get more enraged.”                 

14.09

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/opinion/children-parents-raising-love.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU4.SIuw.4WssUja56Syb&smid=url-share  - On being part of a kid (or kids)  lives without being their parent
• https://www.schmattamag.com/p/temu-croissant-lamp-truth - Consumer (literally) culture extreme
• https://aeon.co/essays/there-is-no-shame-worse-than-poor-teeth-in-a-rich-world - Author talks about the biases we have when looking at poor people (here she uses the example of bad teeth) and are quick to prescribe them to personal shortcomings of those people and less systemic inequalities.

15.09

• https://siripapi.substack.com/p/the-murdering-woodsman?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email - Sometimes, the words we have aren’t enough to describe some kinds of pain. Author makes a case for evolving metaphors instead
• https://grillbert.substack.com/p/the-best-antibiotic-for-acne-is-non-060?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email - A mini self experiment to discover the wonders of Neosporin

24.09

• https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/culture-studies?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Culture is a catalyst. It multiplies the effectiveness of all other interventions and tools. A kid that grows up in an academically oriented family might use the internet to accelerate their rate of learning. The same kid in a different context might use the same tool to distract herself. Knowing how to scale up cultures that support us would be immensely useful, but it is a difficult problem.

30.09

• https://askmolly.substack.com/p/cookout?r=58d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true - Super interesting take on a scandal-y piece of news that I would have otherwise not read/known about
• https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/24/places-to-heal-not-to-harm-why-brutal-prison-design-kills-off-hope?utm_term=66f7c5a18412bcc94d0602f5d1c3aeb2&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email - How prison design does not shape reform

03.10

• https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/the-field-guide-to-non-engagement-signals-a4dd9089a176 - How Pinterest is trying to optimize for safety vs click baiting
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ta-nehisi-coates-new-book-message-israel-palestine-complicated.html - Profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates in the context of his new book about Palestine, and how the American media is portraying it and how he himself was ignorant for too long about it

05.10

• https://apnews.com/article/south-korean-adoptions-investigation-united-states-europe-67d6bb03fddede7dcca199c2e3cd486e#m1ap5k0tie4w7ka5al9 - How adopting Korean children turned from a good deed into something bordering on criminal

07.10

• https://www.macguffinmagazine.com/stories/macguffin-plutocrat-archipelagos?utm_medium=email&utm_source=annfriedmanweekly -  How the ultra rich live in a dreamworld and current and in the future, no matter what that looks like, will continue to protect themselves and stay unaware of the world

12.10

• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/weed-dealer-new-york-legal-cannabis-business-1235071019/ - One man’s ordeal of navigating the gray zone of legalization in NYC

14.10

• https://thedepths.longlead.com/ Profile of one of the worlds greatest  freedivers Alenka Artnik

21.10

• https://culture.ghost.io/forget-gladwell/ - Don’t read Malcolm Gladwell

27.10

• https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-clutter - Why Japan came to be associated with minimalism by the west and why clutter is an essential part of the culture (or just of human nature)

06.11

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/29/acute-psychosis-inner-voices-avatar-therapy-psychiatry?utm_term=6725f825a3bf40b6e9b95f2aa456c750&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email: Avatar therapy in acute psychosis
• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/22/ancient-brain-collector-alexandra-morton-hayward-heslington?utm_term=671caf9d6d4a85f01ccb403e84bafc1b&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email : Brains have been found intact (but of course looking different) even as old as 2500 years. Profile of a PhD student who is studying them

07.11

• https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/octavia-butler-parable-leaders/ 
• https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n05/adam-phillips/the-magical-act-of-a-desperate-person Mostly about parent child relationships and why it is not a good idea to punish children when they throw tantrums. Tantrums (for kids mainly but also adults)  are just magical acts of desperation and parenting is hard and most of us have some trauma from our childhood

10.11

• https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a62503930/afghanistan-cyclist-evacuation-taliban-us-troop-withdrawal/ 
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nyc-marathon-what-i-learned.html 

16.11

• https://placesjournal.org/article/santa-maria-migrant-mother-florence-owens-thompson/?cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1 : An author tries to find the story behind the famous Migrant Mother photograph

17.11

• https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery - Mini write up of the discovery of a man who broke the no outdoor photography rule in Nazi occupied France to document daily scenes

22.11

• https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/new-tyrannies/ - Wh young men in the west (here the focus is on the US) are tending far right

23.11

• https://substack.com/home/post/p-151872212 - Thoughts on how to make a positive change in the world without having to be

27.11

• https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/autenticity - Thoughts on how one can try to find their authentic self, and how that requires reflection

01.12

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria?utm_term=674ae25fbb0a92ef111925859d3167ee&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email - Why there might not really be pristine nature and how humankind is a core part of an ecosystem

03.12

• https://substack.com/home/post/p-152510040 -  How there isn’t really the scientific method but there is some kind of scientific method for sure.

07.12

• Read Wikipedia about John Stuart Mill and On Liberty and On the subjection of women

08.12

• https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24303161/amazon-influencers-lawsuit-copyright-clean-aesthetic-girl-sydney-nicole-gifford-alyssa-sheil - An influencer suing another one on the basis of stealing her ‘aesthetic’
• https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a63084283/ukraine-russia-war-ultrarunner-andrii-tkachuk/ - Profile of Ukranian Ultrarunner Andrii Tkachuk in worn torn Ukraine

11.12

• https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/elizabeth-goodspeed-column-design-critique-creative-industry-060624 - Why (well done) design and art critics are necessary especially in today’s world

https://preview.forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide - Quantiative investigation of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

14.12

• https://sadboyhowdy.substack.com/p/an-answer-nonetheless?r=58d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true - What to do & think of on a day off [Copied from Ann Friedmann]

15.12

• https://magazine.atavist.com/the-good-traitor-ossietzky-nazi-germany-nobel-peace-prize/ - The story of Carl von Ossietzky
• https://annehelen.substack.com/p/posting-less?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2450&post_id=153029423&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8czof&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email -

18.12

• https://jessicadefino.substack.com/p/fake-teeth - Imperfect but still not fully flawed fake expensive teeth

21.12

• https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2024/dec/17/euthanasia-assisted-dying-netherlands-stephanie-bakker?utm_term=676691c95ed9b5008e61885cc56f6514&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email 

22.12

• https://jessicadefino.substack.com/p/do-pictures-tell-the-truth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=43028&post_id=153365316&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8czof&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email - Why you think you don’t look good in photographs

23.12

• https://www.todayontrail.com/p/never-going-back

25.12

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/24/world/middleeast/syria-assad-rebels-allies.html - Interactive summary of the rivalries during the Syrian civil war

2025

05.01.

• https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/sophie-smith/sleeping-women  - A thoughtful and intimate examination of the trial of Dominique Pelicot

06.02

• https://jessicadefino.substack.com/p/facial-harmonization-trend - Another take on why beauty standards are fucked up and nothing is ever good enough, especially as a woman

07.02

• https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/funny-curiosity - Short piece about what one can do if they’ve lost curiosity.  Spoiler - just go have some fun and read/write what you like, not what you think someone else will
• https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/why-europe-struggles-with-defense : A short outlook on what  could be influencing Europe’s lack of a robust defense system.

08.02

• https://www.thecut.com/article/how-to-deal-with-loneliness-epidemic-startups-companies.html - This is the weirdest thing I’ve read this year
• https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors 

09.02

• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/gary-shteyngart-bespoke-suit-mens-fashion-self-love/681441/ - Lovely story following the author getting a bespoke suit made
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/magazine/quit-sugar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk4.taxG.XumK-N2k3IE_&smid=url-share 
• https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ - How young elon idolising men have been tasked with fixing the US govt

10.02

• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-long-quest-for-artificial-blood - Really interesting insights into research being done to make artificial blood
• https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/ - First hand account of experiencing homelessness is America as someone with a severe mental illness

28.02

• https://www.vox.com/culture/401596/instagram-reels-bad - Truly they do
• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/have-we-all-just-agreed-to-live-with-soul-crushing-racism.html - How maybe our idea of what is bad just keeps shifting

08.03

• https://newrepublic.com/article/191420/christian-nationalism-save-act-voter-suppression?utm_source=pocket_shared&utm_medium=email 
• https://thebaffler.com/latest/hello-brave-new-world-shaftan - Pros and cons of open source biotechnology

09.03

• https://tastecooking.com/life-death-and-sourdough/ - wish someday someone will consider my sourdough starter worthy
• https://www.wired.com/story/delirious-violent-impossible-true-story-zizians/ - how some people’s idea of  rationality can go too far

19.03

• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/403100/ai-brain-effects-technology-phones - case for why you shouldn’t just be using AI to answer questions or find information

23.03

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/20/meir-kahane-israel-kach-ben-gvir-long-dead-extremist?utm_term=67de8a26a416f11dd8c57f0f2d7e88b5&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email 
• https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/a-letter-from-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 

12.4

• https://ridiculouslittlethings.substack.com/p/part-1-the-limits-of-fashion-and?r=58d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true : “on using style as a moral barometer”

12.4

• https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/the-makeup-artist-donald-trump-deported-under-the-alien-enemies-act 

28.4

• henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/friends-missed
• https://www.tommydixon.ca/p/do-what-you-cant 

29.4

• https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that-cannot-be-spoken “Say what you think, cowards! Or stop pretending that your beliefs are important enough for other people to care about in the first place.”
• https://time.com/6249410/secret-tax-women-time/ 
• https://gideonheugh.substack.com/p/how-to-unburden-yourself