Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who'd lost an eye while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine's candidates […]
Why are states unleashing millions of these fish?
Every year, federal and state wildlife agencies in the US breed millions of fish and release them into the wild, all for fishers to catch. They do this because many ecosystems no longer support the thriving fish populations they once did, due to dams, pollution, and rising water temperatures. But there’s a catch. In many […]
What happens when a tradwife has to put her money where her mouth is
Yesteryear, the buzzy new debut novel by Caro Claire Burke, has the kind of premise it’s hard to look away from: A tradwife influencer named Natalie — a Harvard dropout who married rich at 20 — wakes up in 1855. Gone are her tastefully discrete appliances, her prized collection of luxury sweaters, her team of […]
No, Janet Jackson Isn’t In the New Michael Movie and Here’s Why
Michael and Janet Jackson shared a close relationship, but she won't be featured in his highly-anticipated biopic. We're breaking down why!
Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information)
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Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation — Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising …