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John Seabrook on crowd studies, human crushes, and the effort to prevent stampedes and deaths in places where large groups gather, such as stadiums and festival grounds.

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

Celebrities and civilians alike are “fixing” their natural teeth. Now everybody has the same smile … and it’s kind of creepy.

Perfect piece

The fact that Letterboxd still bills itself as “GoodReads for movies” on their about page is hilarious to me, and not just because they’ve inexplicably styled “Goodreads” with a capital “R”. Letterboxd surpasses Goodreads in almost every way: user experience, functionality, aesthetics, not being owned by Amazon… and while Goodreads members outnumber Letterboxd users ten-to-one,…

I like the framing of discovery as an author/publisher problem and tracking as a reader problem. For articles, I think both discovery and tracking are reader problems. Tracking your interests, your reading about current events, and your random rabbit hole forays is the most fun part, imo. Some discovery assistance is nice to have due to the Internet's scale and consolidation. Hoping to enable people's ability to curate on Ourticles and the ability for others to keep up with those curations with some *light* social features in the future. Suggest what you want to see: ourticles.com/feedback

DHS agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card-holding Palestinian activist who took part in the Gaza protests at Columbia University last year.

I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after failing to raise more money, I ended up back where I began: a one-person company.

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