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Saturday, July 18, 2026

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articleNew York Times
Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital. And He Intends to Spend It.

Mamdani talks here like a man with a clock running, and Garcia-Navarro keeps returning to the same question: what is he actually willing to spend the capital on?

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articleThe New Yorker
The Voice of Google

She wrote the language Google used to describe itself as humane. Then she turned the same skills on the company from inside it. A rare account of dissent as a craft.

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articleThe Atlantic
Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage

Software's whole advantage was that copies cost nothing. Once the product is compute, the economics start to look like refining crude — capital-heavy, physical, unforgiving.

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articleWall Street Journal
The Fastest-Growing Risk to Air Travel Is Probably in Your Pocket

Lithium cells now ignite mid-flight often enough to have earned their own incident category. Phones, power banks, vapes — the hazard curve in commercial aviation is bending badly.

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podcastStuff You Should Know
Selects: The Soul Train Episode

Nobody believed a Black dance show would sell nationally, so Don Cornelius largely bankrolled the start himself. It ran for decades. Josh and Chuck take the scenic route.

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