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    "which threats are imminent.",
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    "adding Trump allies to its board.",
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    "to pick up or drop off lifts.”",
    "a human-driven rideshare.",
    "looking to go viral.”",
    "departed the manosphere.",
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    "fiction of Ben Lerner.",
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  "textContent": "**The Defense Secretary says** the end of the Iran war “will be at the president's choosing.” / The Wall Street Journal\n\n**The Director of National Intelligence** says only Trump knows which threats are imminent. / Politico\n\n**Oil and natural gas prices** spike following a string of attacks targeting oil and gas infrastructure. / Semafor\n\n**China, the world’s biggest** crude importer, is said to be close to tapping its commercial oil reserves. / Bloomberg [$]\n\n**LiveNation receives an** unexpected legal reprieve from the Justice Dept. after adding Trump allies to its board. / The New York Times [$]\n\n**“One of the leading** AI companies” is looking to hire sketch comics and improv actors. / The Verge [$]\n\n**Your weekly whitepaper:** A study finds it’s better to text a random stranger than talk to a chatbot if you want to reduce loneliness. / ScienceDirect\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**A wealthy town in Minnesota** is the only city in the US not on Google Maps thanks to how it handles its streets. / 404 Media\n\n**From interviews with** Zimbabwean Uber drivers in Cape Town, South Africa: “All had learned where not to pick up or drop off lifts.” / zimbabweland\n\n**San Franciscans pay** a premium of at least 10% to take a robotaxi instead of a human-driven rideshare. / Bloomberg CityLab\n\n**New York City’s** Washington Square Park, previously a counterculture hub, is now overrun “with social media influencers looking to go viral.” / Gothamist\n\n**Unrelated:** Interviews with guys who departed the manosphere. / The Conversation\n\n**For nearly six decades,** Paul Ehrlich persisted in predicting catastrophic doom “even as humanity grew both more populous and prosperous.” / Reason\n\n**“Funny to think** of you as a journalist. You’d be the world’s worst journalist.” Accounting for the fiction of Ben Lerner. / Harper’s\n\n**An artist uses gridded** sketchbooks to create trompe-l’œil-like drawings. / Colossal\n\nIn the members area, unlocked links from Bloomberg, the New York Times, and the Verge ↓\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
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