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Politics · Local government
At 12:20 on a Tuesday morning in October, the first high-visibility jacket of the night went over the back of a chair in the public gallery of Gillmouth’s Old Custom House. By 12:28 there were 19 of…
Ideas · Work
For most of my childhood, my mother said good night at eight in the morning. She was a nurse on the night shift at Halbridge Infirmary—first on the surgical wards,…
Technology · Infrastructure
At 11:47 on the night of Thursday, September 24, a program called PEN0417 stopped running, and a small green square on the operations…
Culture · Night shift
…minutes to come up to 460 degrees. While it does, Wyn turns on the radio, low, to an overnight station that plays dance-band records and, at three, takes calls from insomniacs about their gardens. She lifts…
Technology · Hospitals
…seconds later. The patient, a man in his seventies whose heart had stopped, survived the night. The smartphone, which was supposed to have received the same alert, buzzed with it at 2:54, by which time she…
Technology · Forecasting
At eleven o’clock on a Friday night last August, Marta Fyfe had an email in her drafts folder that would have canceled the second day of the Tamsell…
Politics · Government
…writes about. For the past year the department let me sit in on its planning meetings, its night shifts, and its negotiations with the finance ministry. What I found was not a story of heroes and villains, though…
Culture · Film
…labeled, in grease pencil, SR 23, and the air filled with the sour tang of a salad left out overnight. Inside, 400 feet of 16mm film had shrunk hard around its core and gone as stiff as a roof tile. Its edges had…
Politics · Water
…council has not decided by summer, they will hire one contractor to do all 14 in a single fortnight and argue about refunds afterward. The joint quote came in at 3,900 crowns a house, a little over half what Lisle…