Modern Solutions to Modern Problems Comments on the Rise of GLP-1 Drugs (Why I Hate Them)

My first Substack article in what will be regular commentary on culture and politics. Click to read prose full of wit and furious anger: open.substack.com/pub/alexcler.... This post is about my concern/hate for #Ozempic and #GLP1 drugs and microwave solutions they represent. #capitalism #longreads

Canada has no law to govern AI companies. A lawsuit over a mass shooting may force the issue. The family of a Tumbler Ridge shooting victim is suing OpenAI. A leading legal expert says the case exposes a regulatory vacuum that the federal government has so far failed to fill.

Canada has no law to govern AI companies. A lawsuit over the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting may force the issue. #longreads

The Man, the Metropolis, and the $720 Million Museum For the last 20 years, LACMA director Michael Govan has faced off with billionaires and bureaucrats to reinvent the encyclopedic museum in Los Angeles, courtesy of a new building by Pritzker Prize win...

Review: Right off the bat, Govan offered the building to Zumthor, the lauded minimalist architect who had never designed a building in America. No competition, no tryouts, no picking by committee. This was fully Govan’s choice, and Los Angeles had to embrace it. #longreads

Windsor mayor eyes development fee exemption for new apartments Hopeful that provincial grants will make up for lost revenue, Windsor's mayor wants to waive some development fees to spur housing this year.

Windsor mayor eyes development fee exemption for new apartments Hopeful that provincial grants will more than make up for lost revenue, Windsor’s mayor wants to waive development fees for apartme...

#Local #News #development #Drew #Dilkens #Longreads #Windsor

Origin | Interest | Match

#ERGAReads | Genome size estimation from long read overlaps 🧑‍💻 🧬
🔗 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

#bioinformatics #genomesize #Longreads

The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?

For those who want more context, here's a link to a story that The New Yorker published in the fall. #longreads
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI "Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack." “I’d become a teacher in large p...

#Editor's #Pick #AI #artificial #intelligence #longreads #Peter #C […]

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The Human Factor | Vanity Fair

The late William Langewiesche was a brilliant writer/journalist. In this 2014 piece, he explores how a series of small errors turned a state-of-the-art cockpit into a death trap.
#longreads

"The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives." #AI #Dystopia #Longreads

Inside Alice Coltrane's Spiritual Jazz Awakening In an exclusive excerpt from Andy Beta's new Alice Coltrane biography, 'Cosmic Music,' we learn how she made her classic spiritual jazz album

In “Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane,” through Da Capo Books, veteran music journalist Andy Beta tells the full life story of this highly influential jazz artist for the first time. Drawing on dozens of new interviews and extensive archival research, #longreads

In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

The dawn of the AI drone: a @nytimes.com long read reported over 18 months involving multiple trips to Ukraine

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m... #longreads

The Mysterious Cereus Blooms in West Texas These desert cereus plants flower only one day out of the year—at night, in the middle of nowhere—if at all

Rick Bass travels to far West Texas in search of the elusive night-blooming cereus—for @texashighways.bsky.social. #longreads

(Click the link for a lovely surprise.)

texashighways.com/outdoors/the...

How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer? How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

Essay: Plotting the signal at different points in the chain with different parameters reveals how Hendrix configured and manipulated the nonlinear complexities of the system as a whole to reach his expressive goals. #longreads

#Disinformation #Journalism #Longreads #Podcasts

Sequencing output per P2 flow cell. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#P2OS

We (Julie) are still very active in the long-read sequencing business. Please see an updated figure regarding the output per P2 flow cell below. Reach out if you would like to collaborate!

Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...

#PlantGenomics #LongReads @bpucker.bsky.social

Finding a Sense of Place in the Discomfort of Cedar Fever A rush of allergy-inducing nostalgia welcomes a writer back to Central Texas

🪩 CEDAR FEVER 🪩

New Open Road essay by @anamariecox.bsky.social for Texas Highways #longreads

texashighways.com/culture/find...

“They Will Try to Kill You”: James Baldwin’s Fraught Hollywood Journey In 1968 Palm Springs, as the author yearned for the would-be leading man of his Malcolm X screenplay, an era-defining act of violence fractured his world. An exclusive first excerpt from ‘Baldwin: A L...

"They Will Try to Kill You”: James Baldwin’s Fraught Hollywood Journey
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/... #Longreads

How to Disappear Completely (v) part five (conclusion)

Part five, the conclusion of "How to Disappear Completely" is here. What a nice birthday present to myself to be done with this one. Follow or subscribe, as I've got something very long and (I hope) very cool I wrote inside that I'll be posting soon.

#booksky #shortstory #longreads

When Coyotes Threatened Livestock on Central Texas Ranches, the Solution Was to Unlock an Ancient Ability in Dogs Killing the predators is not nearly as effective as the intimidating presence of well-trained guardians, a role some breeds have played for 5,000 years

"As the region reconstitutes itself along modern lines, the plateau is becoming, ironically, more wild. Strange and macabre scenes are common." —Chris Pomorski for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #longreads

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Probably the most interesting thing I’ve read about AI this year: shumer.dev/something-bi...

#AI #Longreads

For this week's @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, I talked to @tromano.bsky.social about how to write an oral history — and how she managed to stay organized while reporting her definitive history of the Village Voice, "The Freaks Came Out to Write."

#podcasts #booksky #longreads

Scent, In Silico Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines.

interesting #longreads about #compchem approaches to olfaction on Asimov Press: press.asimov.com/articles/scent

#chemsky

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

"The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting" (13.1.2026) #History #Internet #Longreads #Society #Tech hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

fnnch fnnch believes art is for everyone. Only about 5% of a city’s residents and visitors tour its modern art museum. Street art and murals are art for the other 95%, inspiring and engaging them with the arts. fnnch creates street art and murals using multi-layered stencils and spray paint. He calls his work “contemporary pop art”, depicting objects from both nature and everyday life. Over time his work has gained a strong following on social media and has been featured by The New York Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. His public art can be found in San Francisco, LA, New York, Miami, Chicago, St. Louis, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong, and his fine art can be found in private collections in 48 states and 20 countries.

Essay: How to Make a Living as an Artist

fnnch creates street art using multi-layered stencils and spray paint. He calls his work “contemporary pop art”, depicting objects from both nature and everyday life. His work has gained a strong following #longreads
essays.fnnch.com/make-a-living

💎📚💎 Twelve best books 💎📚💎 #booksky 💙📚 #bookrecs #booklovers #books #longreads #tbr #goodreads #readingchallenge

Plant genome sequencing workflow. Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:

"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

How to Disappear Completely (iv) part four

Part four is live. If you want to subscribe but don't want to give Substack the fifty cents, consider using Bandcamp instead; DM me and I'll comp the subscription. I won't be paywalling anything but my novel-length serials anyhow, and possibly not even those. #shortstory #original #longreads

THE RIVER OF THE INNOCENTS

Local legends Frisbee Dan 🥏 and Sun God 🌞 add to the lore of San Marcos’ Sewell Park

By Ian Dille for @texashighways.bsky.social

Read:
texashighways.com/travel/the-o...

#longreads

Mythological Symbolism in Political Propaganda: How Old Stories Still Shape Power For a long time, I believed politics was mostly about arguments. Who had better policies? Who spoke more clearly? Who made stronger promises? But over time, I noticed something deeper at work. Politics isn’t really driven by logic. It’s driven by stories. Every society carries stories about its origins, heroes, and the future it deserves. Some stories come from history. Others come from mythology.

Politics doesn’t run on facts alone. It runs on myths. https://t.ly/PN4Vq

#Mythology #Politics #PoliticalPropaganda #NationalIdentity #Symbolism #History #Culture #Psychology #Geopolitics #DeepReads #CriticalThinking #Storytelling #WritersCommunity #KnowledgeSharing #LongReads #TrendingTopics

Soledad O’Brien on character-driven storytelling in documentaries, and the power of being a witness - Nieman Storyboard The veteran journalist and documentarian shares how her late mother’s act of defiance is a practice we should all embody

On the latest @niemanstoryboard.org podcast, Christina M. Tapper speaks to Soledad O'Brien about character-driven storytelling in documentaries, and an early lesson from her mother in bearing witness.

niemanstoryboard.org/2026/02/05/s...

#journalism #podcasts #longreads