🕵️‍♀️ The Open Secret of Google Search

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The Open Secret of Google Search. A few weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

New: I wrote about the evolution of Google search and the persistent meme that it is getting less effective (which I am not sure is exactly true!). I think search’s evolution mirrors that of the broader internet and our anxieties about it reflect that

theatlantic.comThe Open Secret of Google SearchOne of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be.

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Terraform Labs staff put on no-fly list by South Korea. Prosecutors are investigating $40bn collapse of terraUSD and luna token. (Song Jung-a / Financial Times)

Financial Times @FinancialTimes

South Korean prosecutors have banned Terraform Labs employees from leaving the country as an investigation into the company and its co-founders deepens after the $40bn implosion of its cryptocurrency

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The Rich World's Climate Hypocrisy. The developed world's response to the global energy crisis has put its hypocritical attitude toward fossil fuels on display. Wealthy countries admonish developing ones to use renewable energy. Last month the Group of Seven went so far as to… (Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal)

Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg

The rich world's #climate hypocrisy is hard to stomach. The #G7 announced they would no longer fund fossil-fuel development in poor countries. Meanwhile, Europe and the US are begging Arab nations for more oil. Germany is even reopening coal power plants. wsj.com/articles/the-r…

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How Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years Later. On a Wednesday evening in February 1972, as police officers and emergency responders in New Paltz, N.Y., flocked to a fire, somebody snatched a pair of 19th-century portraits of a wealthy local couple from a historical society elsewhere in town. (Vimal Patel / The New York Times)

New York Times Arts @nytimesarts

The F.B.I. announced that a pair of portraits stolen from New Paltz, N.Y., more than 50 years ago have been returned, thanks in part to the detective work of a local curator and a librarian.

nyti.msHow Paintings Lost in a Small-Town Art Heist Were Recovered 50 Years LaterTwo sleuths — a curator and a librarian — in New Paltz, N.Y., helped the F.B.I. track down 200-year-old paintings that were stolen from a historical society in 1972.

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'God hates NFTs'-behind The Hundreds' staged anti-crypto protest. Amid the steady bustle of shoppers roaming a SoHo street in Manhattan on Monday morning, a strange sight unfurled: a crowd of protesters carrying signs reading “God Hates NFTs,” “Crypto Is A Sin” and other anti-crypto… (Asa Hiken / Ad Age)

bobbyhundreds.eth @bobbyhundreds

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