2025 Challenge: Read 100 new things

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66. A.I. is Coming for Culture (8/25)

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67. Why We’re Leaving the Office Earlier but Still Showing Up on Time (8/26)

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68. It’s happening: People are starting to talk like ChatGPT (8/26)

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69. How Weekly Shōnen Jump Became the World's Most Popular Manga Factory (8/27)

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70. The New Millennial Parenting Anxiety (8/27)

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71. Is Las Vegas really dead? Tourism slump a warning for Bay Area and beyond (8/30)

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72. The Orgasm Expert Who Ended Up On Trial (8/30)

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73. Yes, Cash Transfers Work (8/31)

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Big update due to the long down time of the site, I’ll come back and number these later:

74. Auteurs, Inc. (New Yorker 9/7)
75. Why are Kids So Funny? (New Yorker, 9/7)
76. Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? (New Yorker 9/8)
77. The Debit Card Rebellion (Atlantic 9/9)
78. Does Society Have Too Many Rules? (New Yorker 9/10)
79. What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get (Atlantic 9/10)
80. Boy Meets Girl (New Yorker 9/14)
81. Brazil Braces for a Verdict in Its Ex-President (New Yorker 9/15)
82. Can You Really Live One Day at a Time (New Yorker 9/17)
83. The Day the Earth Died (New Yorker 9/19)
84. The Behemoth (New Yorker 9/20)
85. Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation (New Yorker 9/24)
86. Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party? (New Yorker 9/24)
87. The AI Bubble is Coming for Your Browser (New Yorker 9/25)
88. Can Liberalism Be Saved? (New Yorker 9/25)
89. Canada is Killing Itself (Atlantic 9/28)
90. Prompt Diagnosis (New Yorker 10/1)
91. Should College Get Harder? (New Yorker 10/4)
92. Sticks and Stones (New Yorker 10/9)
93. This is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like (Atlantic 10/9)
94. Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will it Ever Pay Off? (WSJ 10/11)
95. Will AI Trap You in the Permanent Underclass? (New Yorker 10/11)
96. Mad King George (Atlantic 10/16)
97. Ready or Not (New Yorker 10/17)
98. Go Big and Go Home (New Yorker 10/22)
99. The Goon Squad (Harpers 10/24)
100. Dear Son (Atlantic 10/25)
101. Enemies of the State (New Yorker 10/27)

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New Yorker? I hardly know her.

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I'm more interested in The Goon Squad. Well, I'm not interested in them, but I am interested in what kind of goons Del was reading about.

[Del Murder]

I'm more interested in The Goon Squad. Well, I'm not interested in them, but I am interested in what kind of goons Del was reading about.

Oh gods, you don't want to know. Words don't mean what they used to. And in full transparency, my wife texted me that one!

And look at that, at 101 now! Reading is fun.

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I had reached 100 back in October, then the site went down, and I never updated since then. But I still tracked it in my notes app! Here's the final 2025 list:

102. The Business School Scandal that Just Keeps Getting Bigger (Atlantic 10/28)
103. Why Can’t the NBA Move on from Its Old Stars? (New Yorker 10/28)
104. The Sports Betting Disaster (New Yorker 10/29)
105. Liberty for Slaves (Atlantic 11/2)
106. Can the Global Economy be Healed? (New Yorker 11/4)
107. Do We Need Hobbies? (New Yorker 11/6)
108. Open Mind (New Yorker 11/6)
109. Under the Influence (New Yorker 11/15)
110. China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics (Economist 11/16)
111. Secrets of a Radical Duke (Atlantic 11/17)
112. The Nightmare of Despotism (Atlantic 11/18)
113. Texas’s Water Wars (New Yorker 11/19)
114. Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot? (New Yorker 11/19)
115. The Heat of the Moment (New Yorker 11/24)
116. A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun (New Yorker 11/25)
117. Songs of Herself (Atlantic 11/26)
118. The Greatest Fight of All Time (Atlantic 11/26)
119. A Further Shore (New Yorker 11/26)
120. The Curious Notoriety of Performative Reading (New Yorker 12/4)
121. The Big Ice is Sick (New Yorker 12/7)
122. What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year (New Yorker 12/10)
123. Superbugs are getting deadlier — and no one is safe (S.F. Chronicle 12/11)
124. Only Fans (New Yorker 12/15)
125. America’s Betting Craze has Spread to Its News Networks (New Yorker 12/19)
126. Five Things that Changed Media in 2025 (New Yorker 12/19)
127. Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? (New Yorker 12/19)
128. Can You Reclaim Your Mind (New Yorker 12/22)
129. The Missing Kayaker (Atlantic 12/23)
130. Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead? (New Yorker 12/27)
131. Open Secret (New Yorker 12/30)

131! I really enjoyed doing this so I am keeping it up. I now have subscriptions to New Yorker and The Atlantic, which give me a good swath of current events writing and deeper reporting topics. A successful change to my life!