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Friday, April 01, 2022

The Internet’s Powerful Currency: Shame

 

The Internet’s Powerful Currency: Shame

What’s curious about the brutality that fuels Internet shaming frenzies is that in real life—that is, IRL, in the usual online parlance—most of us would hesitate to consign a normal nobody to nationwide notoriety and several years of unemployment. - The New Yorker


Since the Renaissance, quotations, prose fragments, and tidbits have been recorded in the commonplace book. It’s a practice worth keeping Renaissance 


Worm composting is great for the planet and your garden. Here’s how to get started LA Times


I Want You Back: Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of Confusion and Tedium The Intercept. Commentary


Firsthand account reveals the frightening reality of a brutal war

Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov gives his account of the Russian siege of Mariupol in Ukraine.