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How a Fortnite squad of scientists is hoping to defeat climate change
Geniaal idee. The Verge: Every Sunday for two hours, Drake jumps into Fortnite, bringing climate-themed guests — such as Dessler and Peter Griffith, the founding director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office — with him. While they play (and stream to Twitch), they chat about climate change. The three-month-old squad has set out to […]
Growing Anti-Semitism in Germany – ‘We Are Facing a Monster’
Charlotte Knobloch in een interview in Der Spiegel. Wie is die vrouw? Charlotte Knobloch was born in Munich in 1932. She avoided deportation when a former family servant claimed she was her own daughter out of wedlock. Her father survived the war as a forced laborer. Knobloch has been president of the Israeli Cultural Union […]
Only Do It If You’re Willing To Do It 100 Times
Interessant concept van Josh Spector: What if we only worked on projects we’re willing to commit to doing 100 times?
Red de politieke journalistiek van de dood
De Nederlander Jan Kuitenbrouwer met een vlammend en terecht pleidooi: De politieke journalistiek zit op een dood spoor. Het is tijd voor een nieuwe rolverdeling. De politiek wil werkelijkheden creëren. De taak van de journalistiek is om werkelijkheden te beschrijven. Vandaar mijn suggestie: vergeet wat politici allemaal zeggen en kijk meer naar wat zij doen. […]
We Need Massive Change to Avoid Climate Hell
WIRED: “At the end of the day, what we’re talking about is millions of lives at stake,” Yakupitiyage adds. “We’re already seeing the ways in which people are impacted by heat waves, by rising sea levels, by wildfires, by hurricanes.”
We were Brett Kavanaugh’s drinking buddies. We don’t think he should be confirmed.
Opiniestuk bij The Washington Post met de beste argumentatie die ik deze week las: None of us condemned Brett for his frequent drunkenness. We drank too much in college as well. En vooral deze prachtige zinnen: For we each believe that telling the truth, no matter how difficult, is a moral obligation for our nation’s […]
WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind
Schitterende exclusive van Forbes: Facebook also wanted to sell businesses tools to chat with WhatsApp users. Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too. The challenge was WhatsApp’s watertight end-to-end encryption, which stopped both WhatsApp and Facebook from reading messages. Leuke vent, ook, die Mark: When Acton reached Zuckerberg’s office, […]
Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing
The New York Times over problemen bij de sociale mediagigant: The apology came from Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president for global public policy. A day earlier, Mr. Kaplan had sat behind his friend, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, when the judge testified in Congress about allegations he had sexually […]
I Found Trump’s Biggest Fan
Ben Bradlee Jr. op Politico: “When people put Trump down all the time, it was hard not to think they were putting you down too,” Lynette says. “We were constantly being made to feel uneducated if we supported Trump. We felt like elitists were laughing at us. That hurt me.”