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Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the Internet.http://nyer.cm/Nvt3teR 

In the coup stage of his Presidency, Trump has continued to be Trump: he has shown no ability to plan or plot, but plenty of resolve and willingness to act.http://nyer.cm/vuruogZ 

Toussaint Louverture led the most important slave revolt in history, effectively forcing France to abolish slavery, in 1794. Yet many French high-school students learn nothing about this chapter of their history.http://nyer.cm/gokblqg 

“Donald Trump in defeat, it turns out, is even more whiny, dishonest, and self-absorbed than he was before his decisive loss to Biden a month ago,” @sbg1 writes.http://nyer.cm/b6sTG1l 

In his recording of “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Paul Giamatti transforms Herman Melville’s story of a Wall Street attorney’s struggle with a balky copyist into a comic performance.http://nyer.cm/Jh9lYJC 

Sign up to get @billmckibben’s Climate Crisis newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.http://nyer.cm/lfdo6as 

I call my boyfriend “bae” on social media. What I do with my actual partner in crime is worse.http://nyer.cm/cTSFi3n 

The Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa attributed much of his best writing to fictional alter egos—scholars have tabulated as many as 72 of them.http://nyer.cm/MvnSGxP 

In the Internet age, it can seem as if there’s no reason to remember anything. But information doesn’t always amount to knowledge.http://nyer.cm/P5FViuR 

Five more executions are slated to take place before President Donald Trump leaves office.http://nyer.cm/9wn49OW 

Where do contributions to Donald Trump’s campaign Web site—still active today, and aggressively soliciting donations—actually go?http://nyer.cm/OUiXrxB 

To manage their mundane tasks, small businesses and busy parents alike can turn to startups to outsource the work traditionally done by personal assistants.http://nyer.cm/MRAl97R 

An illuminating new documentary follows four retired filmmakers in Sudan, where all of the movie theatres have long been closed for political reasons, as they try to reopen an abandoned, open-air, amphitheatre-like movie house.http://nyer.cm/Kj31Og3 

“Leashing your dog during walks is a key to letting him know that you’re his master. I, however, am not my dog’s master. My dog is my equal, and we are both masters of our own destinies.”http://nyer.cm/IkORl0L 

We can no longer meet our moral and practical burdens simply by reducing our own carbon emissions, @BillMcKibben writes, in his latest Climate Crisis newsletter. We also need to make amends.http://nyer.cm/2HIinrE 

.@JeannieSGersen on the constitutional and historical precedent of the Presidential pardon.http://nyer.cm/Qb0g5m0 

In gentrifying neighborhoods, empty houses are sitting ducks. For cheap security, real-estate companies hire the homeless to guard expensive properties. The rules are simple: don’t host guests, don’t talk to anyone, and don’t leave.http://nyer.cm/tRgaNyl 

Under any circumstances, putting medicine into glass vials is a tricky business. Getting COVID-19 vaccines out will require more than a billion vials to be manufactured, filled, and shipped, at top speed and in some cases under extreme stress.http://nyer.cm/b0GLXzF 

Joseph Conrad was born on this day in 1857. Is his novel “Heart of Darkness” a critique of colonialism, or an example of it?http://nyer.cm/N8LNbza 

“How To with John Wilson,” an HBO documentary series, captures the pleasures and pains of being in public.http://nyer.cm/VHve6pY