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• Jacobin2026-10-11✓ Read

  The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove

  On TikTok, there are dozens and dozens of videos of men and women, many of them young, staring into the camera to talk earnestly about an eight-hundred-page novel that was published forty-one years ago. “I didn’t see the western phase of my life coming, but I’m glad we’re here,” one woman says. “I want to talk about Lonesome Dove. . . . ” And this is what they do. They rhapsodize over characters who “feel like they are a part of your life.” They celebrate the “absolute journey” and the “incredible” prose.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  The Best Godzilla Movie Of The Decade Just Got A Huge Upgrade

  Toho's new limited-edition 4K UHD steelbook of the Academy Award winner 'Godzilla Minus One' is a three-disc boxed set featuring new glow-in-the-dark packaging.

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• Jacobin2026-10-11✓ Read

  How Much Liberty Should We Limit?

  In the political culture of the United States, individual liberty is frequently thought of as possessing intrinsic and overriding importance. The political right and the political left in the United States have long competed to be seen as the true champions of individual freedom, and each has tried to advance its own goals under the banner of liberty.

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• VVOX2026-10-11✓ Read

  Your kid wants to go vegan. Should you let them?

  Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal Samuel while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.

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• VVOX2026-10-11✓ Read

  The company behind Skittles might be to blame for your big vet bills

  Whenever I have dinner with friends, the conversation always ends up on one of three topics: how hard dating is, the hunt for affordable housing, or an update on everyone’s pets. The last on that list includes cute photos and veterinarian updates. I love hearing about my friends’ cats and dogs. But I also have to admit that I just don’t get it. I don’t have a pet. I never have. (We won’t discuss the ill

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• Jacobin2026-10-11✓ Read

  La France Insoumise Won’t Cede God to the Far Right

  In the video, a lanky, crisply-dressed Muslim man of Malian descent walks through a cathedral to the heady sounds of organ music. Several seconds later, he is pictured shaking hands with the most important figure in the Catholic Church: Pope Leo XIV. Off camera, the two exchange gifts and a few words.

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• Inverse2026-10-11✓ Read

  The Wild World of “BatJokes” Fanfic

  One of the strangest pairings in all of fanfic is that of Batman and the Joker. here's what to know about "BatJokes."

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• VentureBeat2026-10-10✓ Read

  AI agents can be unpredictable. Your control layer shouldn’t be

  In multi-agent systems, agents can be individually correct and still produce a wrong result when they work together. One agent’s output becomes another agent’s context. Information can be lost or misinterpreted during a handoff, shared state can drift, and agents can get stuck in loops or deadlocks. When several agents rely on the same underlying model, they may even reinforce the same mistakes rather than catch them. Read more

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  95 Cheap Gifts for Men on Amazon That Are Legitimately Amazing

  I’ve put all the amazing products I’ve found into one giant list to make it easier for you — and me, next time — to gift something that he’ll want.

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• Jacobin2026-10-10✓ Read

  The War in Ukraine Is Spiraling Out of Control

  War is in the air in Europe. Over the four years and counting that it’s raged, the Ukraine war has often been compared to the two world wars, being the largest land war the continent’s seen since the second of those and having surpassed the length of the first this past June. But unlike those disastrous conflicts, the fighting in Ukraine has not become a true continent-wide affair that’s dragged the rest of Europe’s powers into the fray — so far.

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• Jacobin2026-10-10✓ Read

  Greek Life Endures by Offering a Simulacrum of Solidarity

  Four thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars. That was the cost of joining the University of Alabama’s Delta Delta Delta Panhellenic sorority, affectionately known as “Tridelt” to its members, for the 2025 fall semester. The spring semester will run you another $4,005, and if you’d like to live in the 44,294-square-foot sorority house that sleeps seventy-eight, add another $2,886 in the fall and $2,490 in the spring.

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  10 Hidden Sci-Fi Movie Gems On Netflix

  The forgotten-but-excellent sci-fi thrillers Netflix's own algorithm won't show you.

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• Main - Kottke.org2026-10-10✓ Read

  Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got

  Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise. Incl. “Could be found on the second to last line of an optometrist’s vision chart” and “The sound a cow might make when spanked”.

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  110 Bougie Things For Your Home With Over 4.5 Stars on Amazon That Are Cheap as Hell

  These bougie things are shockingly cheap as hell.

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  ‘Ray Gunn’ Is The Exact Movie We Need Right Now

  Brad Bird's latest film is impossibly ambitious and more than a little messy. It might also be his best yet.

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• Jacobin2026-10-10✓ Read

  The Gospel According to J. D. Vance

  J. D. Vance is the vice president of the United States of America, and in that position, he is president of the United States Senate. He is the highest-ranking Roman Catholic member of the executive branch. He has a law degree from one of the best law schools in the country. He’s a Marine Corps veteran, a former venture capitalist, and a former senator from Ohio. And he’s the author of a much-discussed memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which was made into a movie. J. D. Vance is, by any sane measure, one of the elites in this country.

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  Toxic Yaoi! The Most Weirdest Fanfic Trope Is Suddenly Everywhere

  Can’t men just be enemies? Well, it’s less fun that way. Behind the origins and sudden ubiquity of "toxic yaoi."

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• Jacobin2026-10-10✓ Read

  Germany’s Far Right Is Attacking Bauhaus Again

  A hundred years since the opening of Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, there may be no centenary. This December 4, the winner of the election in the surrounding state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), does not intend to throw a big party for the Bauhaus Foundation, but to shut it down.

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• Inverse2026-10-10✓ Read

  40 Years Ago, Wes Craven Put His Own Bizarre Twist On ‘Frankenstein’

  The silly and the disturbing mix effectively in 'Deadly Friend.'

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• The Markup2026-10-10✓ Read

  What it takes for voters to be resilience against AI misinformation

  A conversation with political scientist Thessalia Merivaki

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