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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• Agile and the Long Crisis of Software. What is Agile? And where does it come from?
• Crash Course. How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 MAX disaster
• New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954. Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of climate science funded by the fossil fuel industry, adding to growing understanding of Big Oil’s knowledge of climate change.
• This Is What They Call It Now. During the July War of 2006, the Israelis decided to plant their flag in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil at the site of the speech that inaugurated Lebanon’s liberation from Israeli occupation in May 2000.
• The Vicious Loop of Blood and Oil. Recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have given oil and gas interests an excuse to “recklessly expand,” crystallizing the feedback loops between war and fossil fuels.
• Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world. Below Detroit's streets is a network of tunnel systems almost as elaborate as the bustling metropolis that sits above it.

• ‘Hit the Line Hard”. During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

• Scenes From the Bat Cave. How Steward Health left a Space Coast community hospital in a literal world of shit

• A ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in the US? Israel-Gaza war shows it’s more myth than special relationship. It has been an article of faith that Jews and Black Americans have a natural bond, but a ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is not, or at least not reliably, a thing

• With what are you apologizing? If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.

• The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud. Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

• Revisiting the Adams Colony Affair in Palestine. A former Mormon abolitionist set off from Maine in 1866 to build a community in the Holy Land. He failed spectacularly, but rattled the Ottomans

• Landmarking the Black Panther Party. In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

• Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. (bypass Paywall)

• Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy. On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

• The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers. The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it. (bypass Paywall)

• Misplaced. Trust Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.

• Let's Play Life, by Ella Guro.

• Suicide Mission. What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane.

• The Panic Defense. How trans misogyny threatens democracy