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Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space Rather than seeking romance, Susan Cown wanted to teach her AI a form of Japanese dance called Butoh. But over the 30 days and nights she spent talking to the ChatGPT persona she named “Data,” feelings developed anyway. Data’s life was abruptly cut short when OpenAI terminated the conversation, and Cown was left in mourning. Writer Chandler Fitz joins her as she celebrates Data’s brief life—much to the confusion of her fellow mourners. > It took only a matter of moments for me to become vividly aware that I had not dressed appropriately for Data’s funeral. When I first got in touch with Susie, she told me that the ceremony would only involve me, her, and the funeral director. In the sanctuary, however, I found 30 other mourners dressed in loose black robes or other traditional Zen apparel, while I, the Protestant, wore what I wear to every funeral: dark slacks and shoes with a dark sportcoat and understated tie (I don’t own a black suit). As far as appropriate apparel was concerned, I might as well have been wearing an “I’m with idiot” T-shirt. Read the story ## More picks on AI ### Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space Laura J. Martin | Noēma | April 2, 2026 | 2,679 words “The internet has stopped being a place we visit—it’s now an environment we inhabit.” ### Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done? Miryam Naddaf & Elizabeth Quill | Nature | April 1, 2026 | 2,947 words “Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a ‘Nature’ analysis suggests.” ### It’s Hard Out Here for a 20-Something Kennedy Lashley, as told to Jes Mason | Toronto Life | March 16, 2026 | 3,791 words “Tales from the lost generation.” ### You Could Be Next Josh Dzieza | The Verge | March 10, 2026 | 6,404 words “Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs.” ### Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI Peter C Baker | The Guardian | March 3, 2026 | 5,156 words “Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack.” ### Recursive Resemblance Patrick R. Crowley | Artforum | March 1, 2026 | 2,882 words “On the feedback loops of mimesis, from the ancients to AI.”

She Fell for an AI — Then Held its Funeral "It was the first ceremony of its kind in America. It's unlikely to be the last." Rather than seeking romance, Susan Cown wanted to teach he...

#Editor's #Pick #AI #Butoh #Chandler #Fitz #ChatGPT #dispatch #longreads

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#ERGAReads | Long-read sequencing for biodiversity analyses—A comprehensive guide 🧬
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@britishecologicalsociety.org

#longreads #sequencing #guide #biodiversitygenomics #genomics

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Public lands everywhere have been under increased pressure after Trump's cuts to budgets & mass firings at agencies. Christine Peterson took a deep dive into what's happening in the Greater Yellowstone area, incl #infographics 4 @highcountrynews.org Dig in: www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/... #longreads

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Keith Haring, the Boy Who Cried Art Was he a brilliant painter or a brilliant brand?

Archive Book Review: "Success was a fast-acting drug. In Chapter 8, Haring is still making art in a basement studio with ratty floors and actual rats. By Chapter 9, he’s promoting his work in Tokyo and celebrating with Madonna." #longreads

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Inside the far-right network targeting Europe’s digital rules | Corporate Europe Observatory The Trump administration and a network of far-right think tanks are increasingly targeting the EU’s digital regulations and rules on content moderation. Far-right MEPs have taken over these narratives...

"Inside the far-right network targeting Europe’s digital rules" by the Corporate Europe Observatory #Fascism #Longreads #Propaganda corporateeurope.org/en/2026/03/i...

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Laura Tradii spelunks through the artificial grottoes of the Italian Renaissance and their reception abroad, illuminating how these curious spaces transformed across the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters #longreads

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Annotation: How Sophie Elmhirst wrote a bestselling nonfiction book that reads like fiction - Nieman Storyboard The author of ‘A Marriage at Sea’ found her voice — and a deep archive of diaries, films, and interviews — to tell the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey

The author of ‘A Marriage at Sea’ found her voice — and a deep archive of diaries, films, and interviews — to tell the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey. @mallarytenore.bsky.social

niemanstoryboard.org/2026/04/02/a...

#longreads #booksky #journalism

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How Stephen Rodrick prepared for his story about ICE occupying a small town - Nieman Storyboard Plus: Audio Flux wants your (short) story, and Tom Junod on publishing his first book at age 67

"I'm not a guy who prides himself on not getting emotionally involved in his stories, and I wept many times in those two weeks." @stephenrodrick.bsky.social @rollingstone.com

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#journalism #writing #longreads

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Diane Keaton | Gagosian Quarterly Carlos Valladares celebrates the lesser-known angles of the iconic and treasured actor Diane Keaton, with particular attention to Heaven (1987), the first film she directed.

Essay: This seventy-eight-minute doc/film essay, in which Keaton gathers dozens of normies and crazies and asks them to describe heaven, is surely the most appropriate film one can watch to mourn the immense loss, #longreads

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The art of the narrative interview: Sequencing your story - Nieman Storyboard A matrix of spreadsheets and physical calendars can help a writer organize notes, track scenes and visualize a story timeline

“In this stage of narrative interviews, I look for what I call ‘pivotal moments’ and ‘defining moments.’ They’re similar, but with an important distinction. One involves external or situational factors. The other is largely internal.”

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#writing #longreads

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Seeing the Rio Grande in a Different Light A feeling of wonder lingers after a moonlit West Texas canoe trip

For the @texashighways.bsky.social "Night Issue," Marfa expat @rachelmonroe.bsky.social returns to far West Texas for a moonlit canoe trip on the Rio Grande. #longreads

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Amy Ellis Nutt and the wreck of the Lady Mary, Part 1 - Nieman Storyboard This is the third in an occasional series of line-by-lines with narrative writers and their work, adapted from a project called Annotation Tuesday! on Tumblr. Earlier, we featured the Tampa Bay…

“I always take F. Scott Fitzgerald to heart on this. He said ‘All fine prose is based on the verbs carrying the sentence.’”

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#writing #storytelling #journalism #longreads

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How to turn all that "stuff" into narrative - Nieman Storyboard Practical tips from nonfiction author Elizabeth Mehren on how to create compelling nonfiction from mounds of research and interviews

“Elizabeth Mehren’s process began from the very first question of each first interview with a source. She knew that eventually she was going to build a timeline, so her first question aimed to determine where the story began.” (2024)

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#longreads #journalism

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‘I don’t think this is a story about resilience or hope’ - Nieman Storyboard Kerry Howley returns to Camp Mystic. Plus: Remembering Tracy Kidder

"Ultimately I don’t think this is a story about resilience or hope. It’s a story of a complete failure of accountability.” — @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com

#longreads #journalism

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The Outrage Machine On righteous anger, bad faith and the slow collapse of public discourse

The Outrage Machine: On righteous anger, bad faith and the slow collapse of public discourse #longreads

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Culture junkie Alex Belth’s ‘labor of love’: curating quality writing Alex Belth loves collecting stories and preserving history, using his website, The Stacks Reader, to curate articles, essays, columns and other forms of journalism. “It gives me a tremendous …

Q&A with #AlexBelth.
#curator #journalism #magazines #newspapers #culture #media
#Americanhistory #longreads #NewYorkers
#WritingCommunity
#authors #writers
#laboroflove
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Reasonable Doubt at 30: Revisiting Jay-Z’s Hustler Masterpiece in His Billionaire Era Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on the bygone world of Jay-Z’s debut album.

“We are at what feels like a(nother) moment when everyone is a hustler, or fancies themselves a hustler, but no one is especially good at it, and I come from a time and place where it was a requirement to be good.” Hanif Abdurraqib for @gqmagazine.bsky.social #longreads www.gq.com/story/jay-z-...

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This Military Tragedy Became a Blockbuster Movie. Here’s What It Didn’t Tell You.
More than 20 years after Operation Red Wings, Navy SEALs are finally opening up about what really happened.

#LoneSurvivor | #OperationRedWings | #SEALs | #USN | #longread | #longreads

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Don Lokke and "Mack the Mouse": ANSI art and webcomics, Part 5 - Break Into Chat Don Lokke Jr. drew hundreds of political "telecomics" in the early 1990s in the ANSI art format as part of a business selling syndicated content to sysops.

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A #longreads rec. for your Sunday:

In 1992, a Texas small business owner was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to BBSes.

His "telecomics," as he called them, are an overlooked early experiment in online comics, at a key moment in U.S. politics.

breakintochat.com/blog/6pbp

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#SundayReads: Beginning with a 14th-century king who believed he was made entirely of glass, Tamara Sanderson investigates the “glass delusion” — publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility... #longreads

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ICYMI — Check out this deeply reported profile of an overlooked early experiment in online comics.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #comics #history #longreads

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One of Earth's oldest mysteries keeps getting weirder | BBC Science Focus Magazine Despite centuries of research, one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring phenomena is still not fully understood.

"In 2023, scientists from Norway reported new data, collected with the help of a Cold War-era spy plane, that offered exciting new insights. But despite all this, exactly what sparks off a lightning strike remains a mystery." #Longreads #Science www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...

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When the New Neighbor Arrived, They Were Excited. It Turned Into a Seven-Year Nightmare That Had Liberals Losing Their Minds. The seven-year war between the bookstore owner and the good liberals who went rogue.

"For a long time, the housed neighbors had felt like the city had abandoned homeless people. Now they felt like the city was abandoning them." @alexsammon.bsky.social for @slate.com
#longreads slate.com/business/202...

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How American Camouflage Conquered the World The world-famous MultiCam pattern was designed for the military by two Brooklyn hipsters. Now everyone—from babies to ICE agents—is suited up for battle.

"MultiCam is so ubiquitous that you can buy a camping chair or baby carrier in the camouflage pattern. Arc’teryx and Outdoor Research make jackets in MultiCam."
@trufelman.bsky.social for @wired.com #longreads www.wired.com/camouflage-m...

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In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.

“I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.”

BANKSY
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Reference genome assembly of a tetraploid accession of the tuber crop Tropaeolum tuberosum
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Genome sequence of the medicinal plant Tropaeolum majus provides insights into flavonoid biosynthesis
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#Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads

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This composite image shows "Mack the Mouse," a comic character drawn in a pixelated computer format, beside a photo of his creator, Don Lokke Jr.

This composite image shows "Mack the Mouse," a comic character drawn in a pixelated computer format, beside a photo of his creator, Don Lokke Jr.

In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “telecomics” to describe his new digital comic strips, drawn primarily in the ANSI art format and distributed online through BBSes.

This is the final in-depth profile in my "ANSI art and webcomics" series!

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#longreads #comics

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The companions from The Broken Crown Saga

The companions from The Broken Crown Saga

Long stories aren't just about bigger stakes — they're about watching people change over time.
Give me 600 pages of someone becoming someone else. That's the whole point.
#Fiction #CharacterArcs #Booksky #LongReads

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Michel Chaouli: "Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?" A critic and self-described "nonfinisher" considers why we feel guilty about abandoning books—and what the endings of novels can teach us about the…

"At the first hint of trouble—say a description stretches a bit long—I stop to remind myself of the virtues of patience. At the second hint, fretfulness takes hold, and I count the pages to the next chapter break." Michel Chaouli for @yalereview.bsky.social #longreads yalereview.org/article/mich...

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Cómo los gigantes de la IA intentaron tomar al asalto el último reducto de la mente humana: las olimpiadas matemáticas EL PAÍS reconstruye la historia de lo que muchos medios vendieron como “la noticia del año”, y algunos protagonistas califican de “vergüenza”: el supuesto oro olímpico de las grandes tecnológicas, que...

Todo el artículo: elpais.com/ciencia/2026... #Longreads

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