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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

Pigeons & Planes is all about music discovery, supporting new artists, and delivering the best music curation online and IRL. We're always listening. Pigeons & Planes is all about music discovery, supporting new artists, and delivering the best music curation online and IRL. We're always listening. Pigeons & Planes is

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The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger

The US’s explosive diarrhea problem is worse than you thinkβ€”and it’s about to get even messier. The country is grappling with a large and fast-spreading outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that causes extreme gastrointestinal distress. There are nearly 7,000 potential cases, more than 3,300 of which are in Michigan

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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry that tech companies

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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

I harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king. Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need

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Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare

The Weekend Essay As cosmetic procedures become both more invisible and more extreme, our connection to reality is fraying. July 11, 2026 Illustration by Ohni Lisle To borrow a phrase from Simone de Beauvoir, the face is not a thing but a situationβ€”one that is, increasingly, more technically beautiful but

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