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When government officials profit from inside information about national security decisions— that’s effectively a form of treason. / Paul Krugman

Among the truths that endure from the Mueller Report: the president and people around him behave like gangsters. / Lawfare

Donald Trump calls mail-in voting cheating, and yes, he just did it again himself. / The Associated Press

An investigation finds North Korea placing remote workers at US companies in order to funnel money home and spy. / NBC News

What it’s like to date a nice guy who gets sucked into the manosphere. / Bustle

What it’s like to outsource your social interactions to artificial intelligence. / The New York Times [$]

OpenAI kills its problematic Sora video platform, also its $1 billion deal with Disney to license characters. / The Wall Street Journal [$]

Unrelated: Former Disney CEO Bob Iger secretly goes by “Max Stryker” on social media. / LA Material

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Reportedly the world’s largest solar power project is set to convert 136,000 acres of fallow land in California. / Canary Media

Photographs, maps, and videos demonstrate how Paris has changed now that it’s prohibited car traffic in many places. / Bloomberg CityLab

A brief survey of ballpark food to be found in Texas. / Texas Highways

A brief story about Leonardo DiCaprio financing a public library on the grounds of his childhood home. / SF Gate

A historian says English King Harold’s 200-mile march to the Battle of Hastings never happened. / Gizmodo

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