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This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry

Rowan Jacobsen in Outside: Most offerings made with Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are about a buck a burger more expensive. But it’s inherently cheaper to make a burger directly out of plants than it is to feed those plants to an animal first. Beef is currently cheaper because of scale. Big food companies can […]

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Inside the Members-Only Eating Clubs of San Sebastián

Christopher Bagley: The boisterous Basque restaurant of your dreams isn’t a restaurant at all, but one of San Sebastián’s fabled sociedades gastronómicas, members-only social clubs whose existence revolves entirely around food. In a town where cooking and eating seem to be the raisons d’être for just about everything, from the three-star restaurants to the napkins-on-the-floor […]

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10 jaar Tech45

U komt toch ook? (Even gratis tickets bestellen.) Tech45 bestaat 10 jaar en dat vieren we op zaterdag 7 september bij Flow Pilots op de Rooseveltplaats in Antwerpen. Iedereen is welkom vanaf 15u30. Om 17u00 starten we de opname van een speciale ‘Tech45 wordt 10’-aflevering. Afsluiten doen we aan de bar waar we samen het […]

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Have We No Decency? A Response to President Trump

Wanneer de kardinalen van Washington Cathedral een natie een geweten moeten proberen schoppen… Make no mistake about it, words matter. And, Mr. Trump’s words are dangerous. These words are more than a “dog-whistle.” When such violent dehumanizing words come from the President of the United States, they are a clarion call, and give cover, to […]

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Zwitserland, 2019

Het was leuk op reis. Sankt Moritz en omstreken. Met eerst een tussenstop in het Zwarte Woud om het Baumwipfelpfad te doen. En dan heel wat bergwandelingen. Een dikke 125 kilometer op 9 dagen tijd.

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I Played Trump in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Debate Prep. Here’s What It Takes to Beat Him.

Een oud-medewerker van H. Clinton: If Democrats are serious about nominating a candidate who can beat Trump, these are also the qualities that their nominee should be able to respond to—and how. What better time to start figuring that out than now?

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The Kanye Story

Zalig verhaal, dit. I jump out of bed and start writing down ideas. Dating is a good starting spot. It’s funny and simple. Now I just need something controversial. Brexit Dating, Harry Potter Dating, Kanye West Dating. Yes Kanye West, I’m a fan. I know the audience. How about — KanyeWestDating.com. Doesn’t pop. Maybe Yeezy.Dating. […]

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Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful

Petapixel: People now seem incapable of appreciating the scene before their eyes – thinking instead that it will be improved by them stood in the middle of the image in that straw hat and floaty dress they’ll likely return to a poor retailer later that day, all for the sake of achieving “internet fame”…. Wouldn’t […]

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Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

Buzzfeed: “If I retweet the New York Times, they don’t care,” Dash said. “But extreme content comes from people who are trying to be voices, who are trying to be influential in culture, and so it has meaning to them, and so it earns me status with them.”

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How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem

The Verge: The internet has given billions of people a way to amplify their voices, but the trade-offs have become tangible. Abolishing gatekeepers can allow misinformation and hate to flourish. Uncensored online forums can become co-opted by bigots and harassers, silencing their less powerful targets. And in the face of violent supremacist movements targeting real […]

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