longreads

The Marked Man: an innocent man's exoneration after 37 years in prison revealed a rash of serial killings in 1983 Tampa (www.tampabay.com)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)

I Went Undercover as a Secret Only fans Chatter (www.wired.com)

Frozen Alive (www.outsideonline.com)

Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. (acoup.blog)

This is a 7-part series of blog posts, written by a history professor, contrasting the realities of ancient Sparta with it’s depictions in popular culture.

I believe Transphobia is Unnatural (sh.itjust.works)

I’ve been interacting with a guy who is very transphobic and it has brought to light the concept for me. Something that has been growing on my mind is that fighting to keep a she||him dichotomy feels unnatural. What do I mean?...

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge (tylervigen.com)

An unimportant mystery

Why Can’t Our Friendship Survive Your Baby? (www.thecut.com)

To make beautiful things

I have this beautiful little generator making beautiful images on this beautiful site i didn’t make named Perchance....

The 160 Year Mystery of the Stone Age Venus Figurines (www.bbc.com)

The “Disney adult” industrial complex (www.newstatesman.com)

The Great Compression - Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)

(gift link, not mine)

50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS (blog.koehntopp.info)

Blessed are the (tiny) cheesemakers (knowablemagazine.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/9136672...

A 75km hike through 'the Graveyard of the Pacific' (www.bbc.com)

Old Picture of the Day: The Worst Day of My Life (web.archive.org)

Click Here to Kill, by Brian Merchant (harpers.org)

A fascinating investigation into hitman websites on the dark web, and what would lead someone to pour thousands of dollars into such shady websites hoping to kill an ex.

How Google perfected the web (www.theverge.com)

We often hear about the latest engagement hacks on other platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or X, formerly known as Twitter. But Google is consequential above all of these, acting essentially as the referee of the web. Yet deep knowledge of how its systems work is largely limited to industry publications and marketing firms —...