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  "description": "A survey finds consumer sentiment in the United States falling to the second-lowest level recorded in 70-plus years. / CNN\n\nAt the same time, consumer prices are up 3.3% from a year ago, hotter than February’s gain of 2.4%. / PBS\n\nWhy gas prices are still rising despite the ceasefire in the Middle East: “The physical disruption is real and people are frustrated.” / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n“People in her building banned any visitors they didn’t know, and even limited deliveries, to avoid ...",
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  "textContent": "**A survey finds** consumer sentiment in the United States falling to the second-lowest level recorded in 70-plus years. / CNN\n\n**At the same time,** consumer prices are up 3.3% from a year ago, hotter than February’s gain of 2.4%. / PBS\n\n**Why gas prices are still** rising despite the ceasefire in the Middle East: “The physical disruption is real and people are frustrated.” / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n**“People in her building** banned any visitors they didn’t know, and even limited deliveries, to avoid being targeted.” Recounting a month of life in Lebanon. / The Dial\n\n**Unrelated:** What it’s like to live on the world’s most remote inhabited island. / NPR\n\n**Life in Canadian cities** is said to be destabilized by “the micromobility revolution,” i.e., electric bikes and scooters. / Maclean’s\n\n**Details from inside** the command hub of one of Mexico’s largest surveillance networks. / rest of world\n\n**See also:** How a high-tech food bank stocked with free groceries works in Shenzhen. / Sixth Tone\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**If you’re wondering** if artificial intelligence is going to replace your job in five years, maybe ask yourself if you are coal or horse. (You want to be coal.) / The Atlantic [$]\n\n**Nils Gilman:** The most prized future workers will be those who can spot a meaningful signal “and translate it into action that others understand and trust.” / Noema\n\n**An artist used her** drawing board to prevent ICE agents in Minneapolis from shooting her. / The Art Newspaper\n\n**Researchers craft** an equation to predict the permeability of a given coffee. / Sprudge\n\n**Is the best, most hellish** McMansion exterior of all time actually a McTuscan heaven? / McMansion Hell\n\nIn the members area, unlocked links from the Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic ↓\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Sketch of the imagination",
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