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https://www.gq.com/story/freediver-alexey-molchanov-profile/amp
With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.
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The Really Big One
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
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Can also recommend the Longform newsletter (and podcast, if you’re interested in how these pieces are researched and written).
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Still Alive
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
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With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov
If you're interested, there is a fantastic book on free diving called Deep.
I did some AIDA qualifications last summer (20 meters for me), would recommend.
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Unwanted Corkpull
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This was a great read when I came across it early in lockdown 1.0. Now it's behind a paywall although perhaps not if you're new to Vulture. From what I remember Jerry Saltz is a curious cat.
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This was very good!
Pointless, but good
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The Jessica Simulation:
Love and loss in the age of A.I.
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/
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The Company Man
by Stephen Marche, torontolife.com
November 1, 2021 10:03 AM
Tse Chi Lop doesn’t look like the biggest drug lord in history. He looks like a bedraggled, exhausted, late-middle-aged trader in commodities, which is exactly what he is. Tse’s commodities just happen to be high-margin, addictive, illegal drugs—heroin, ketamine and methamphetamine. Tse runs a drug syndicate known to law enforcement as “Sam Gor,” Cantonese for “Third Brother,” and to its members simply as the Company. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that Sam Gor’s annual revenue could be as high as $21 billion, the same as Citibank’s.https://torontolife.com/city/this-man-is-the-jeff-bezos-of-the-international-drug-trade/
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This, on Johnson, is superb:
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Just finished Slaughterhouse Five so I'm scouring the internet for things about Vonnegut and came across this:
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From the outside, things seemed perfect for the former world extreme skiing champion: he had a family, a successful guiding business, and unending adventure out his front door in Valdez, Alaska. But something dark festered beneath the surface.
The Final Descent of Dean Cummings, Outside Magazine
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/dean-cummings/
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https://bakerstreetherald.com/
Via Alistair Campbell, very interesting deep dive into the mindset of the free market ers shaping the world
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Yes, I've always been a bit quizzical about young folk joining the church, this sort of answered a few of the questions.
Also very recently listened to a R4 Soul music edition with U2s 'I still haven't found what I was looking for" where a chap talked about becoming a Monk so complemented each other
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The point of emphasizing this reversal isn’t to suggest that either
side is likely to flip back. The evolving attitudes of right and left
reflect their evolving positions in American society, with cultural
liberalism much more dominant in elite institutions than it was a
generation ago and conservatism increasingly disreputable,
representing downscale constituencies and outsider ideas.From here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/opinion/left-right-reversal.html
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Interesting piece on Stuart Hall in the LRB..
‘one has to remember Brecht’s adage that you should always begin from the bad side, not from the good side,’
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Mention of the LRB leads me to lament the death of the great Ian Jack - my favourite LRB piece of recent bring his on the sell off of public land
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This is a good one from aeon on adults as children https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-kidults-from-hello-kitty-to-disney-weddings
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^Marxism Today, Martin Jacques, Stuart Hall, Althusser, Poulantzas, Gramsci. The miners strike. God that takes me back.
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