To attract tourists and foreign investment, Tanzania is taking the land of an ancient people. For
@TheAtlantic
’s May 2024 cover story, Stephanie McCrummen reports on how “conservationist” has come to be a word the Maasai associate with their own doom:
The invention of Ozempic may be as transformative as the development of insulin therapy was a century ago, writes
@garytaubes
. That should make us very nervous:
Taylor Swift has long constructed her identity out of archetype, cliché, and torn-up fragments of Americana. But her new album shows her straining against tropes she's outgrown, writes
@sophieGG
:
President Joe Biden has signed the so-called TikTok ban, initiating "what is likely to be a rushed, chaotic, technologically and logistically complex legal process that is likely to please almost no one,"
@cwarzel
writes.
For centuries, Jews have been accused of preparing their Passover food with Christian blood. “Dismissing all of this as ancient history would be comforting,”
@Yair_Rosenberg
writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “But it’s not.”
"It is too late to stop the emergence of AI," Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier write. "Instead, we need to think about what we want next, how to design and nurture spaces of knowledge creation and communication for a human-centric world."
"After writing about how and why Americans are depressed, I thought I'd turn things around for a change. What matters most for happiness—marriage, money, or something else entirely?"
@DKThomp
reports:
"Debate about Columbia would improve if it focused on the thorniest … conflicts between protest rights and antidiscrimination law rather than imagining that a better leader could reconcile the most expansive versions of both projects,"
@conor64
writes: