Excellent Reads

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Are you tired of clickbait and the current state of journalism? This community is meant to remind you that excellent journalism still happens. While not sticking to a specific topic, the focus will be on high-quality articles and discussion around their topics.

Politics is allowed, but should not be the main focus of the community.

Submissions should be articles of medium length or longer. As in, it should take you 5 minutes or more to read it. Article series’ would also qualify.

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  1. Common Sense. Civility, etc.
  2. Server rules.
  3. Please either submit an archive link, or include it in your summary.

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The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground for young singers. Getting in requires grit, personality and a soaring voice.

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or, the exhaustion of a blind user

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525

An interesting history of a brilliant machine thought lost and the man who created it, and the mundane forces of history that kept it from the world.

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For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his secret was forced out in the open.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AwesomeLowlander to c/longreads
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Secrets & Wives (archive.ph)
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A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. This true story picks up right where Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ left off.

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Bubble Trouble (prospect.org)
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https://archive.ph/iWtPK Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

by Bryan McMahon March 25, 2025

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