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  "description": "Following a surprisingly strong job growth report that showed unemployment improved last month, US stocks surged toward an all-time high yesterday. / AP\n\nSee also: Nearly all of the new jobs added in January were in healthcare and related fields. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\nHowever, according to new data, job growth has been overstated over the past two years—in 2025, the actual number of jobs added was 69% lower than reported. / The New York Times [$]\n\nAfter 88 years of publishing preside...",
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  "textContent": "**Following a surprisingly** strong job growth report that showed unemployment improved last month, US stocks surged toward an all-time high yesterday. / AP\n\n**See also:** Nearly all of the new jobs added in January were in healthcare and related fields. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n**However, according to** new data, job growth has been overstated over the past two years—in 2025, the actual number of jobs added was 69% lower than reported. / The New York Times [$]\n\n**After 88 years of** publishing presidential approval ratings—going back to FDR—Gallup announces it will no longer track individual ratings. / Wikipedia, the Hill\n\n**Since 1970, climate change** has been growing predictably, but over the past three years those rates have jumped precipitously, possibly due to how clouds work. / The Washington Post [$]\n\n**“Being an elementary school** student in the United States is more deadly than being an ICE officer.” / Doomsday Scenario\n\n**Americans are buying** the myth of the police state, just as white South Africans did at the onset of apartheid. / The Dial\n\n**See also:** How the mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n**Amid a withering commercial** real estate market, some powerful brokers are making millions by selling ICE empty warehouses for future detention facilities. / Jacobin\n\n**Related:** ICE is rapidly expanding its footprint in the US, and leasing records show where the agency is headed next. / Wired\n\n**MAGA money has** infested the art world, forcing artists to consider ways to prevent the sale of their work to politically abhorrent patrons. / Hyperallergic\n\n**A list of all the tech** subscriptions you may want to cancel due to their “outsized influence over the national economy and our president.” / Resist and Unsubscribe\n\nIf you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links.\n\nSubscribe\n\n**Regarding yesterday’s** links about Anthropic, a much better profile of the company: “What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either,” by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. / The New Yorker\n\n**To decipher the rules** of an ancient Roman board game, researchers trained AI to trial thousands of other possible games using the gameboard. / Scientific American\n\n**A guide to the emoji** you should use to express something like love, but you don’t want to use any of the heart emoji. / Did Someone Say Emoji?\n\n**Grinding your way** to a Nintendo Switch 2 via nearly 500 Citi Bike rides, with a hiatus for multiple months due to a broken foot. / Aftermath\n\n**Headshots of famous** artists from the 1980s, and newly discovered photos of 1970s London squatters. / Ironic Sans, Creative Boom\n\n**From 1832, a series** of woodblock prints of snowflakes taken from firsthand observation by Doi Toshitsura. / The Public Domain Review\n\nIn the members area, unlocked links from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post ↓\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Murder by numbers",
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