March 23, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General

NY Times: Last ISIS Village in Syria Falls, and a Caliphate Crumbles

NY Times: Angry Over Brexit Stalemate, Britons March in London to Demand Second Vote

NY Times: Owning a Car Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse

NY Times: Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good

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March 22, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: E.U. Approves Brexit Extension, but Chaotic Departure Still Looms

NY Times: In Golan Heights, Trump Bolsters Israel’s Netanyahu but Risks Roiling Middle East

NY Times: A.I. Can Improve Health Care. It Also Can Be Duped.

NY Times: Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know.

CNET: Facial recognition can speed you through airport security, but there’s a cost

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March 21, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: As College Consulting Expands, Are High School Counselors Advocates or Adversaries?

NY Times: Clarence Thomas Breaks a Three-Year Silence at Supreme Court

NY Times: Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission

NY Times: How to Not Ruin Your Life (or Just Die of Embarrassment) With a Screen Share

NY Times: I Deleted Facebook Last Year. Here’s What Changed (and What Didn’t).

The Verge: Apple is jumping into streaming video with a huge library of shows and films

The Verge: European Wikipedias have been turned off for the day to protest dangerous copyright laws

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March 20, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: ‘Do You Pull the Parchment?’: Students Caught Up in College Admissions Scandal Now Face a Reckoning

NY Times: Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics

CNET: Amazon’s Rekognition software lets cops track faces: Here’s what you need to know

Ars Technica: “Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer

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March 19, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: ‘It’s Probably Over for Us’: Record Floods Bring New Toll When Farmers Can Least Afford It

NY Times: Space Is Very Big. Some of Its New Explorers Will Be Tiny.

NY Times: Dead Whale Found With 88 Pounds of Plastic Inside Body in the Philippines

NY Times: Racing Against China, U.S. Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer

NY Times: Apple’s Big Spending Plan to Challenge Netflix Takes Shape

CNET: How Facebook helps people with HIV shed the stigma and shame

CNET: Bill Gates says AI should improve education and medicine

Ars Technica: Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills

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March 18, 2019: the morning read

CNET: Democrats hit the gas on Net neutrality bill

CNET: Guardians of the Galaxy 3: James Gunn rehired to write, direct Marvel film

The Verge: Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube

The Verge: Spotify responds to Apple, calling it a ‘monopolist’

Ars Technica: How a wireless keyboard lets hackers take full control of connected computers

Ars Technica: How Google influences the conversation in Washington

TechCrunch: A huge trove of medical records and prescriptions found exposed

NY Times: Saudi Crown Prince’s Brutal Drive to Crush Dissenters Began Before Khashoggi

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Books I’m Reading

15) Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor (March 15, 2019)

16) Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (March 17, 2019)

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March 17, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: New Zealand Shooting Live Updates: ‘There Will Be Changes’ to Gun Laws, Prime Minister Says

NY Times: How Andrew Rannells, Actor, Spends His Sundays

NY Times: As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

NY Times: By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson

NY Times: W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91

NY Times: Apple Defends App Store Policies After Spotify’s Antitrust Complaint

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March 16, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: A Hate-Filled Massacre in New Zealand, Designed for It’s Times

NY Times: At Yale, a Once-Respected Soccer Coach Becomes an Enigma

NY Times: The Unstoppable Snowplow Parent

NY Times: A Mass Murder of, and for, the Internet

CNN: Trump Issues First Veto of His Presidency, Says Resolution ‘Put Countless Americans in Danger”

CBS News: Suspected Mosque Shooter Appears in New Zealand Courtroom

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March 15, 2019: the morning read

NY Times: New Zealand Shooting Live Update: 49 Are Dead after Two Mosques Are Hit

NY Times: Boeing Promised a 737 Software Fix Last Year. Pilots Are Still Waiting.

NY Times: North Korea Threatens to Suspend Nuclear Talks with U.S.

NY Times: College Cheating Scandal Shows a Standardized Test Isn’t Always a Fair One

NY Times: Students Across the World Are Protesting on Friday. Why?

NY Times: College Admissions: Vulnerable, Exploitable, and to Many Americans, Broken

NY Times: How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter?

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