Interesting articles I read

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Bring Back the Code of Hammurabi

Somewhere between 1750 BCE and now, we lost the plot on accountability.

Lets not do that

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Benny Blanco Gave Selena Gomez a Bathtub Full of Queso for Valentine’s Day

Hopefully neither of them are lactose intolerant.

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Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump

How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.

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I Opened My Marriage. Maybe I Should Have Tried an Affair.

When an engaged friend told me she had a boyfriend, I thought, I want that, too.

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How Did Two Elite Students Fall for the Zizians Cult? — New York Magazine

Max and Milo bonded over Harry Potter fan fiction. Five years later, they were in jail.

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‘I Can Hear Thoughts’

A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read their parents’ minds. The truth is more complicated.

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How Did Two Elite Students Fall for the Zizians Cult? — New York Magazine

Max and Milo bonded over Harry Potter fan fiction. Five years later, they were in jail.

Reminds me of the final fantasy cult fiasco, where someone (or multiple someones) even turned up dead.

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If I were a cult leader I would simply not advocate for murdering other people.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.