Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers

 

JK Rowling Under Attack For Character In Her New Book

Penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood is Rowling’s fifth book to feature private investigator Cormoran Strike. An early review of the book by Telegraph writer Jake Kerridgedescribed it as featuring a “transvestite serial killer,” which inspired readers’ anger and spawned the Twitter hashtag #RIPJKRowling — a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the author’s career. – CBC


This Lovely Cat Feels And Acts Like He’s Not Any Different From His ‘Brothers’ (30 Pics) Bored Panda


Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra survives impeachment vote Al Jazeera


No Time But the Present Harper’s


Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74NPR


Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens and the long road to reaction New Statesman


After billion-dollar disasters, here’s what the US’ fall weather has in store Ars Technica




20 Minutes in Nature a Day Is Your Ticket to Feeling Better TreeHugger


‘Shocking’: wilderness the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years, study finds Guardian


The Roots of American Misery Project Syndicate. James K. Galbraith. Today’s must-read


The rich and the rest Times Literary Supplement

New Eviction Moratoriums ‘a Band-Aid,’ Say Housing Advocates Capital & Main


1,800 NC Nurses Win Biggest Union Drive in South in a Decade – 3,800 GE Workers Move to Strike in Louisville – Michigan Graduate Employees End Strike Payday Report. Mike Elk.


Crossing the Picket Line: What You Need to Know About Strikes Teen Vogue. Kim Kelly. From earlier this month yet still germane.


Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers Vice