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The Long Way Round
Long reads that belong to no one beat.
Six long pieces every two weeks: essays, investigations and reported features, each one read to the end before it was picked. Several are from magazines with a paywall.
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- October 4, 2026
Fortnightly · 2 issues since September 2026 · last issue 2 weeks ago
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October 4, 2026
Human values remain central to the debate over artificial intelligence
While artificial intelligence is not going rogue, the technology still presents inherent risks.
6 links · ~68 min read · ~1 min for the TL;DR
September 20, 2026
How the attention economy erodes memory and reflection
LLM training processes mirror the reward and punishment systems once used to manage the Simplified Chinese Internet.
6 links · ~71 min read · ~1 min for the TL;DR
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