Articles by CaptainZapp
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Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble? (nytimes.com)

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Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Working with Polymarket and Kalshi (nytimes.com)

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A Technology for a Low-Trust Society (theatlantic.com)

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Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library (bbc.com)

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'Yamagata is ramen': Japan's city of noodle fiends revels in 'capital' status (theguardian.com)

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How Warren Buffett Did It (theatlantic.com)

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The New Brutality of OpenAI (theatlantic.com)

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The Company Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers (theatlantic.com)

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Russia Invaded Wikipedia (foreignpolicy.com)

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Airbnb guest says images were altered in false £12,000 damage claim (theguardian.com)

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British Post Office Scandal (wikipedia.org)

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Ticketmaster threatened with legal action over way Oasis tickets were sold (theguardian.com)

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DoorDash, You're a Loser (eater.com)

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Volkswagen Sausage and the Enduring Appeal of Culinary Car-Industry Crossovers (atlasobscura.com)

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San Francisco's Nocturnal Taxi Ballet (theatlantic.com)

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The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed (nytimes.com)

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'Natty or not?': how steroids got big (theguardian.com)

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Boeing cargo plane forced to land at Istanbul without front landing gear (theguardian.com)

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Boeing's first astronaut launch called off due to faulty valve (theguardian.com)

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McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work (theguardian.com)

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It's the End of the Web as We Know It (theatlantic.com)

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The Fax Is Not yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com)

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Dutch cargo bike firm Babboe ordered to halt sales amid safety concerns (theguardian.com)

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Why mental health apps are under scrutiny (theguardian.com)

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SpaceX sues US agency that accused it of firing workers critical of CEO (theguardian.com)

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Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund Hyperverse does not appear to exist (theguardian.com)

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Reclaim Your Brain (theguardian.com)

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Google agrees to settle $5B lawsuit claiming it tracked users (theguardian.com)

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Meta in Myanmar (Full Series) (erinkissane.com)

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Google loses antitrust trial to Fortnite maker Epic Games (theguardian.com)

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Exploring Roblox's corporate hell-worlds (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk hurls defiant, profanity-laced retort at fleeing advertisers (theguardian.com)

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Sweden's schools minister declares charter school 'system failure' (theguardian.com)

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Monty Hall Problem (wikipedia.org)

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Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket (theguardian.com)

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Making a monster: how to build a budget gaming PC without losing your mind (theguardian.com)

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Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report (theguardian.com)

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The quest for Sky Skipper, the rarest Nintendo arcade machine in the world (theguardian.com)

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Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced (theguardian.com)

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The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale (theguardian.com)

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Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets (theguardian.com)

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The magician who catches card cheats in casinos (theguardian.com)

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The Guardian bans all gambling advertising (theguardian.com)

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How Parking Ruined Everything (theatlantic.com)

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Sydney’s newspapers: the night the censors called armed officers on the press (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk Among the Anti-Semites (theatlantic.com)

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blows up minutes after launch (theguardian.com)

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Oscar Night in Hollywood (1948) (theatlantic.com)

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Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by margin (theguardian.com)

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One More Reason to Hate Cockroaches (theatlantic.com)

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The $130M Cell-Phone Scam (esquire.com)

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Math Is Magic (theatlantic.com)

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Jury rules artist’s NFTs of ‘MetaBirkins’ violate Hermès’ trademark rights (theguardian.com)

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TikTok: How the west has turned on gen Z’s favourite app (theguardian.com)

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MEPs launch site for EU officials to report ‘shady lobbying’ by big tech (theguardian.com)

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Alleged serial liar George Santos had backing from FTX executives (sfgate.com)

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Even When Ticketmaster Works, It Doesn’t (theatlantic.com)

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How restaurant workers help pay for lobbying to keep their wages low (nytimes.com)

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The remote 'helicopter bosses' who stunt worker resilience (bbc.com)

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Abuse and scams in Southeast Asia reveal the dark side of the metaverse (southeastasiaglobe.com)

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Volkswagen Originalteil (atlasobscura.com)

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Police beat protesting iPhone workers as Covid cases hit record high in China (theguardian.com)

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Chicago’s Tap Water Contaminated with Lead, Analysis Finds

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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

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Fake GPS Coordinates Are Leading to Lawlessness on the High Seas

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Airbnb to use ‘anti-party technology’ to crack down on rowdy guests

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Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs