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Weather Report #36: On fake AI freelance, the moral stains of the US, a surveillance nightmare in India and more...
Consuming 12/08/2025
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Weather Reports are weekly roundups of scooplets and updates that are not big enough for their own post, as well as recommendations for news and media you should consume. The scooplets and updates are free to read, but the news and media recommendations are paywalled. Image credit: Detail from Columbia Records advert for Weather Report's Heavy Weather (1977).
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Weather Report #35: Silicon Valley's death cult, nerds and D&D, rebuilding Gaza, and more
Consuming 11/17/2025
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Weather Report #34: On the victims of U.S. boat strikes, media complicity in climate change, ICE Watch, Disco Elysium, and the futility of journalism.
Consuming 11/10/2025
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Weather Report #33: On transparency laws, climate lawsuits, text chains, corporate surveillance, goon caves, and Gaza
Consuming 10/26/2025
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Weather Report #32: On public records, Thomas Pynchon, the Sumud Flotilla, and more
Consuming 13/10/2025
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Weather Report #31: On the Fall of the American Empire, Eight Years Since Hurricane María, News Media's Failure to Use the Word 'Genocide', Political Violence and Lists, And Springfield, Ohio
Consuming 10/06/2025
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Weather Report #30: One of the Best Video Game Artbooks Ever Made and the Last Pre-9/11 Spy Movie
Consuming 9/21/2025
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Weather Report #29: A Beautifully Drawn Alternate History of the Soviet-Afghan War and a Mystery Thriller About the Meaninglessness of Borders
Consuming 09/14/2025
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Weather Report #28: A Tension-Filled Elegy about Animal Extinction, a Whimsical 90's Science Fantasy Film, and Some Life Updates
Consuming 09/07/2025
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Weather Report #27: Chinatown-Meets-Hollywood in this Neo-Noir Novel and a Prescient Surveillance Thriller
Consuming 09/01/2025
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Weather Report #26: The novel that gave this newsletter its name, and an underrated, nearly forgotten neo-noir film that inspired The Matrix and Inception.
Consuming 08/24/2025
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Weather Report #25: A haunting portrait of (fictional) extremist radicalization; an unexpectedly good and layered thriller about collective memory; and more...
Consuming 08/17/2025