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There are no atheists in foxholes and Cold War Rivers ...
There are no atheists in foxholes and Cold War Rivers ...
Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but verify” to “verify, then trust”? Nieman Labs
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Putin: Jews might be responsible for election meddling …
WE’RE GOING TO DISAGREE ON WHETHER EUROPE IS SOCIALIST, BUT ON THE REST, HE SPEAKS FOR ME: CNN thinks that socialism is cool. My grandparents from the USSR would disagree
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Putin: Jews might be responsible for election meddling …
WE’RE GOING TO DISAGREE ON WHETHER EUROPE IS SOCIALIST, BUT ON THE REST, HE SPEAKS FOR ME: CNN thinks that socialism is cool. My grandparents from the USSR would disagree
The Artist Who Made A Space For Herself In Photography
Deborah Willis, who asked one professor "Where are all the black photographers?" in college, has had "a storied career, to say the least, and yet it’s one she almost didn’t have at all. While in college, a photography professor told her she 'took a space from a good man' - that she was just going to end up married and pregnant so why bother taking classes?" … Read More
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LATITUDE CLUB WAS AGAINST OVERACHIEVERS
The Secret Sorrows of Over-Achievers Book of Life Yes, this sounds familiar…
The Secret Sorrows of Over-Achievers Book of Life Yes, this sounds familiar…
Absolute hell: the toxic outpost where Mumbai’s poorest are ‘sent to die’ Guardian. Coming to the rest of the world sooner than you think… We are the richest family in all cemeteries ...
Roger Bannister dies at 88, the first human to run four laps in less than four minutes, “amateurism’s last hurrah.”
While the world remembers Roger Bannister, look at where running’s gone in the meantime: ultra-running in China’s Changping Valley and Mt. Siguniang Scenic Park.The Devolution of the Good Society to the Bad Society Ian Welsh. I understand his point about kindness intellectually, but I am actually deeply suspicious of gestures like that and tend to brush them off. So I am not only guilty of not engaging in that sort of behavior (save giving $ to the homeless pretty regularly, but that is so inadequate relative to the scale of the problem), I discourage it. I suppose I am more of a Stoic: if people did their duty, things would work better plus we’d have way less interpersonal friction. Behavior might not rise to the level of kindness, but it would be easier for most people to be civil, even pleasant.Professor Declares Black Students ‘Rarely’ Graduate In The Top Half Of Law School Class Above the Law (Dan K). Cringe-making.Why McDonald’s is flipping its arches for a day CNN. Help me. Why don’t they offer daycare instead.What Airbnb Did to New York City City Lab10 Years After: The Financial Crisis and the New York Federal Reserve District (PDF) The Center for Popular DemocracyCongress Is 80% Male and 81% White. Here’s How to Change That. Ellle. “[Project 100], so christened because it aims to ensure that 100 progressive women are serving in Congress by 2020 in honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote, is the result of months of research by co-founders Danielle Gram, previously the head of the Tony Blair Foundation….”
See also: how a bad hangover turned nonathletic writer Graham Beck into an Iron Man
“[It’s] very effective and extremely disorienting. We’ve had trouble even reporting on this data because we’re so confused about what’s going on and it’s so hard to make sense of things.”
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YOUR TURN, REDDIT: You,
too, Tumblr. Senate investigators are seeking to question leaders of both
companies on the role they played in spreading Kremlin disinformation ahead of
the 2016 election intended to boost Donald Trump, hurt Hillary Clinton and
weaken America through racial, ethnic and political division. The move was
prompted by a report last week by the Daily Beast in which 21 Tumblr
accounts were tied to Moscow’s troll factory.
SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING: Fake
videos are getting very realistic, posing new
problems for verifiable journalism, the NYT’s Kevin Roose writes. Important to
note: The person in the lead of Roose’s story just looks like Michelle Obama.
“This is turning into an episode of Black Mirror,” wrote one Reddit user.
(Reader: Hold that thought. We’ll get back to it later in this report.)
‘I WANT TO WIN YOUR TRUST’: That’s a Hearst executive, talking to Digiday about a new, flexible paywall. Instead of short-sheeting the bed, having readers bump into a paywall and clicking away angry, a new design gives editors flexibility to decide what should be in front or behind the paywall at individual Hearst properties. At the Albany Times-Union, the first paper to test the flexible paywall, the total number of subscribers has doubled since it started tests in September, and the overall number of new subscriber numbers for Hearst Newspapers has jumped 10 percent, Digiday reportedOne surprising thing about secret societies is how visible they are. In the ethnographic record, they can be found almost everywhere.
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Congress should set the standard in being a good employerEconomic Policy Institute
Antidote du jour (margarita). “Swimming near Bratislava, Slovakia, in 10F temperatures.”
ABC journalist Emma Alberici's $12,000 for ASIC work - The Australian
ABC chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici was paid $12,000 for two days' work with the corporate regulator. Alberici, whose reporting was scrutinised in Senate estimates last month after the ABC -removed and replaced two articles she wrote about company tax, was hired to moderate three panel discussions and a dinner address at the ASIC annual forum in March last year.
