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Monthly Archives: januari 2019

Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.

Jeff Jarvis: Trump and his allies don’t know how to tweet but Ocasio-Cortez does — and that’s what so disturbs and confounds the GOP about @aoc. They think it should be so simple: just tweet your press releases — your “social media statements,” as their leader recently said — plus your best lines from speeches that get the loudest, hottest applause […]

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Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short.

De oud-presidentskandidaat en recent senator in The Washington Post: A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect. As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit. With the nation so divided, resentful […]

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How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

Anne Helen Petersen op BuzzFeed: This is why the fundamental criticism of millennials — that we’re lazy and entitled — is so frustrating: We hustle so hard that we’ve figured out how to avoid wasting time eating meals and are called entitled for asking for fair compensation and benefits (…) We’re called whiny for talking […]

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Mac-tip: ToothFairy

Geniale kleine tool om automatisch te verbinden met een Bluetooth hoofdtelefoon of ander toestel in de menubalk van je Mac, voor maar 3 dollar (of inbegrepen bij een SetApp-abonnement): AirPods are great, but they don’t work quite as smoothly with Macs as they do iPhones. You can’t tell at a glance whether audio will play […]

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The Spiderman Paradox

Seth Godin: In a democracy, we each have more power to speak up and to connect than we imagine. But most people don’t publish their best work or seek to organize people who care. Most of the time, it’s far easier to avert our eyes or blame the system or the tech or the dominant […]

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Every day my parents play Mario Kart 64 to see who will make a cuppa tea. They’ve done this religiously since 2001.

Zalig verhaal op Reddit.

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The First Known Photograph of People Sharing a Beer (1843)

Zalig: The three men are said to be drinking Edinburgh Ale, “according to a contemporary account… ‘a potent fluid, which almost glued the lips of the drinker together.’

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ᐉ “Meer boeken lezen”

Ik vind Goodreads een heel leuke plek. Voornamelijk omdat ik er heel wat boeken leer kennen die ik anders niet zou kennen. Het is extreem deugddoend om een Amerikaanse kennis een nieuw boek te zien aanraden en die dan snel te downloaden naar de Kindle, om dan maanden later De Morgen te horen stoefen over […]

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