‘I was hyperventilating and sobbing’: Tomi Adeyemi says Children of Blood and Bone film ‘the worst thing I’ve ever lived through’ (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine''s drone operators can now fight from hundreds of miles away. Support troops still have to risk getting near the front. (www.businessinsider.com)
The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain - Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on. (www.newyorker.com)
Inside OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face - Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I. (www.newyorker.com)
How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America - The agency was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message. (www.newyorker.com)
Memorandum from the National Review Committee for National Day Designations - The Committee continues to recognize National Pizza Day, but denies the petition for a distinct New York-Style Pizza Day. (www.newyorker.com)
“Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World - Elizabeth Meriwether’s new series, which follows a female killer seeking vengeance against a network of abusers, is brutal, nuanced, and, at times, surprisingly funny. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November? - Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former. (www.newyorker.com)
The Irony and the Ecstasy of Colson Whitehead - The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance. (www.newyorker.com)
The Woman Who Took On the N.R.A. After Two Gun Suicides - A devastating personal story reveals why firearm suicide has remained a blind spot in America’s gun debate. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Blanco Reads Elizabeth Bishop - The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.” (www.newyorker.com)
Fairfield Porter’s Lush, Lonely Vision of the World - The painter was rich and cloistered, and used color like few others before or after him. (www.newyorker.com)
The Department of Labored Content - Trump’s Cabinet has joined TikTok, but the White House is about to learn that controlling the platform isn’t the same as being good at it. (www.newyorker.com)
Dear Pepper: How to Have Some of It All? - Liana Finck writes a humorous advice column about the choices a couple faces after having their first born. (www.newyorker.com)
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” - The new adaptation, though visually exquisite, swaps the story’s much-loved comfort for dutiful tedium. (www.newyorker.com)
Charli XCX and the Strokes Are (Sort of) Making Rock Music - Both artists have released new albums—“Music, Fashion, Film” and “Reality Awaits”—that seesaw between raw sincerity and punkish insouciance. (www.newyorker.com)
The Kids Are Kind of Alright - Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on? (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race - The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. (www.newyorker.com)
Bari Weiss Is On It - Our first goal, as with “60 Minutes,” is balance. Lake Mead has been on the north side of the Hoover Dam for too long. When we’re finished, it will be on the south side, too. (www.newyorker.com)
How Bots Took Over Our Lives - During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere. (www.newyorker.com)