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The Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and Control

New Yorker Culture 02 November 2026 Yesterday
The Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and Control
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How an invention that brought distant voices close rewrote the rules of conversation and raised an unsettling question: Who else might be listening?
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