“Indian immigrants have helped make this country great,” but people who don’t understand their contributions “would rather close the door, and are hostile to those who are already here,” Meenakshi Ahamed argues.

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The birth of modern AI may turn out to be the biggest wealth-creation event in human history—and what tech billionaires decide to do with this money could have profound consequences for how Americans live, @willgottsegen.com argues.

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The D.S.A. is divided about whether to be involved with “mass politics”—but, this year, 123 candidates backed by the organization have won primaries at every level. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Almost all galaxies are dominated by dark matter — that is, except for three ‘ghostly’ galaxies. Astronomers theorize that a powerful ancient collision aligned them into an eerie line and left them without dark matter. Get the full story on The Quanta Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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The viral “Hotel Lobby” meme, which lets users inhabit the bodies of Quavo and Takeoff using A.I., resembles a kind of digital blackface, but also speaks to a technology that makes appropriation the default. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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