Sarah Kendzior: Regardless who is deemed president, Tuesday’s results were again, as I wrote in 2016, a moral loss for the United States. Mr. Trump still got millions to vote for him. Unlike 2016, they were not voting for a hypothetical president, the strongman savior he advertised himself to be. They voted for a known […]

BBC Worklife: Today, the phrase is used more broadly by Swedes, Norwegians and Danes to explain anything from lunchtime runs in the forest, to commuting by bike (or on cross-country skis when the snow falls) to joining friends at a lakeside sauna (often followed by a chilly dip in the water) or simply relaxing in […]

Thomas B. Edsall, columnist in The New York Times: If Trump were to take advantage of chaos on Election Day and in its aftermath to claim victory, there is the near certain prospect of protests that would make this past summer’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations look mild in comparison.

De afgelopen jaren heb ik steevast de upgrade naar een nieuwe iPhone gemaakt. M’n eerste was een iPhone 4 en daarna ben ik elk jaar meegegroeid. Om verschillende redenen: nieuwzucht, de goeie doorverkoopprijs, het statuut als zelfstandige-in-bijberoep en vaak ook nieuwe features die m’n werk effectief verbeteren. Dit is het eerste jaar waar ik waarschijnlijk […]

Prachtige campagne van het openbaar vervoer in New York om het dragen van een mondmasker te promoten:

Brady Haran: Since February 2020 the show has been on a break – or a HI-atus! After six years, we’re just having a rest. We remain good mates and are both healthy – there has been no drama or problem to worry about (but thank you for your emails and messages). Ik mis dit.

The Atlantic met een goeie weergave van Facebook Advertising: Facebook wants users to spend as much time as possible on its site. To incentivize that, the company makes more engaging ads less expensive to run. So to lower their costs, marketers can either make ads that perform better or find audiences that respond well to […]

Frank Bruni in z’n nieuwsbrief voor The New York Times: I have worried for decades about how thinly informed many voters are. My greater worry now is about how lavishly misinformed they are. The age of the internet is perilously suited to hoaxes and conspiracy theories and all other manner of hysteria and fakery.

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