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The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes and the ridiculous speed they gave skiers
Joseph Winters, Tik Root
Tim Baucom has done this before. The Milan Cortina Games will be his third Olympics as a wax technician for the United States cross-country ski team, a job characterized by long flights schlepping to ...[Continue Reading]
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Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
Maria Popova
Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit), 31-year-old Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1964. Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness, wrote Alain de Botton half a century l ...[Continue Reading]
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New Yorks CEOs Are Gearing Up for a Fight With Mamdani
David Freedlander
When Kathy Wylde stood onstage at her retirement party on a frigid Tuesday night in late January, looking out over the Rainbow Room and the glittering lights of the city below, she had a simple messa ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
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Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a 'shot across the bow.' Here's what it means.
Melia Russell
Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiMichael M. Santiago/Getty Images <ul><li>Anthropic is taking a bite out of the legal software market with a new AI tool.</li><li>That sent legal software stocks tumbling. T ...[Continue Reading]
Business Insider
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The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Heres Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.
Max Blau
In the summer of 2019, a crew leader tasked with overseeing farm laborers sent them to harvest corn in a field where they werent authorized to work and where there wasnt adequate protection from the ...[Continue Reading]
ProPublica
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Owen Wilson Has World Cup Goals in Telemundo Super Bowl Teaser
Bill Bradley
Telemundo is scoring big names for a big Super Bowl ad slot. Today, Telemundo and Peacock released a teaser for an upcoming Super Bowl spot promoting its Spanish-language World Cup coverage. The 30- ...[Continue Reading]
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