A bait-and-switch scam ran unchecked on Airbnb. Here’s how it worked.
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More than 50,000 people are set to get a basic income in a Brazilian city
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Untitled Goose Game is a funny video game about an asshole goose. Its power is in its simplicity.
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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A new high-powered super PAC is going to spend millions to back Andrew Yang
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No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.
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Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
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A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
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Meatless meat is becoming mainstream — and it’s sparking a backlash
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Stockton's basic income trial: Early results show how money is spent
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Bernie Sanders' US CEO corporate tax plan
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Alaska’s universal basic income problem
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The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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Andrew Yang’s plan to tackle climate change, explained
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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We put a “sin tax” on cigarettes and alcohol. Why not meat?
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Unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
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The case against summer camp
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“Load flexibility” could shave 15 percent off our peak electricity needs by 2030.
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Could just-add-water products save us?
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Ohio just passed the worst energy bill of the 21st century
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Lean Cuisine doesn’t want to be part of diet culture anymore. Does it have a choice?
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Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”
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Five trans Catholics on the Vatican’s rejection of their gender identity
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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls
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Forget GDP — New Zealand is prioritizing gross national well-being
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
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The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
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Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
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The rise of meatless meat, explained: Nine questions about meat alternatives you were too embarrassed to ask
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Could Barcelona’s plan to push out cars and build superblocks work in the US?
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A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good.
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Angry Birds and the end of privacy
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South Africa’s ruling party ANC wins reelection
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One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire
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The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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Burger King is the latest brand to use depression as a marketing tool
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The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
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The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million
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Netflix’s wonderful Street Food focuses on the human aspect of ordinary food
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The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading: Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman — who wrote as a man — as Margaret Atwood.
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Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine.
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The US Supreme Court just took up a set of very big cases on LGBTQ rights
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Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men
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The case against solitary confinement
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Chinese scientists create monkeys with human brain genes
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Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’t.
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Hindsight 2070: We asked fifteen experts, “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in fifty years?” Here’s what they told us
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