You Really Need to Quit Twitter
Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic: Twitter is a parasite that burrows deep into your brain, training you to respond to the constant social feedback of likes and retweets. That takes only a week or two. Human psychology is pathetically simple to manipulate. Once you’re hooked, the parasite becomes your master, and it changes the way […]
How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill
Robinson Meyer voor The Atlantic: That 2009 climate bill, the one that President Barack Obama couldn’t pass? It required the U.S. to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 17 percent by 2020 as compared with their all-time high. Yet last year, our emissions were down 21 percent. The same bill said that the U.S. had to generate 20 […]
Here are all the AirTag accessories we know about
The Verge: While a small tracking puck could be carried in a bag, there are a variety of other things that you may want to put an AirTag on that require some sort of holder or the judicious use of tape. AirTags zijn veruit het interessantste product uit de Keynote van gisteren. Hoewel veel voorbeelden […]
Covid-19 deaths are accelerating, WHO warns, as world records most cases ever in a single week
CNN: “It took nine months to reach 1 million deaths, four months to reach 2 million and three months to reach 3 million deaths,” said Tedros. “Big numbers can make us numb, but each one of these deaths is a tragedy for families, communities and nations.”
Top European Soccer Teams Agree to Join Breakaway League
Het zit er jaren aan te komen, omdat het economisch (voor die groep clubs) zo logisch is als ‘t groot is. The New York Times: The so-called super league they have agreed upon — an alliance of top clubs closer in concept to closed leagues like the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. than soccer’s current model […]
The Most Likely Timeline for Life to Return to Normal
Een artikel uit The Atlantic van februari dat tot nu redelijk on point is: Beyond next winter, experts’ predictions are blessedly simple: Life in the warmer months of 2022 should be normal, or at least whatever qualifies as normal post-pandemic. Dat we nog niet aan de nieuwe patatjes zijn.
The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
Alex Danco: The more you have committed to being seen as interesting within your particular area, the more you detach from reality and move into a construct of your own creation. As this evolution takes place, more of your and your peers’ language will become Posturetalk, and more of the language that gets spoken to […]
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
Patrick Freyne in de Irish Times: Over the course of the interview Harry and Meghan, who are charming, clever and good at being celebrities, make the monarchy look like an archaic and endemically racist institution that has no place in the modern world. Well duh. And despite all the outrage you might read in the […]