Corporate greenwashing is getting harder to spot—here’s how to do it - Quartz: “We looked at different ways in which businesses are using greenwashing, from fairly simple imaging tactics that have been around for years, to more novel and sophisticated manipulation of investment products and corporate data. The following is a taxonomy of greenwashing, with tips on how to spot it—and how, with a little bit of extra research, consumers and investors can avoid it…”
In Prague, the Most Expensive Apartments are in Josefov, the Cheapest in Satalice
Prague Orloj Scandal: City Administration Calls for a New Specialist
BA.5 Is Causing Almost 80% of COVID Cases. Here’s Everything We Know - CNET
CNET: “A lot of people are getting sick with COVID-19 right now, including US President Joe Biden, who tested positive Thursday as COVID cases and hospitalizations are on the rise across the United States. Official counts of cases are also likely to be big underestimations because of the high number of positive results from at-home tests, which usually aren’t reported.
The current form of the virus driving this summer’s wave is BA.5, an extremely contagious subvariant of omicron. About 78% of current COVID-19 cases are caused by BA.5, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At a White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, explained how the virus that causes COVID keeps mutating, and that the virus has “essentially bumped one variant off the table after the other,” which has led to a long parade of increasingly contagious subvariants of omicron. BA.5 is the newest, and highly problematic, mutation…”
Many users have called this latest Instagram update “one of the worst updates to an app [they] have ever seen” and argued Instagram has become “one of the most unbearable, unusable social media platforms to exist” (a huge call considering the competition includes Facebook, Twitter and Reddit)
Why Rain Smells So Good But Tastes Really BadLaughing Squid
Annie Leibovitz shooting glamorous cover stories of the war! In Case You Weren’t Convinced Volodymyr Zelensky Is Serious, Vogue Is Here To Tell You. “I don’t blame the Zelenskys for wanting to draw attention to their struggle. I do blame them for trying to guilt the West into escalating it. And after seeing the Vogue cover story, I blame them for thinking their veneration in the minds of Americans is so sacrosanct that sitting under hair and makeup artists for an almost comically dramatic photoshoot would not make anyone question their sincerity.”
I wonder if Zelensky knew of Leibovitz’s cursed streak? Flashback: The New Bad-Luck Curse in Politics: Jim Geraghty rounds up the names of four (insert “infamous” or “superstar” here, depending upon your worldview) leftists, including Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, who have undergone a dramatic reversal of fortune in recent days, who have all been lovingly photographed for Vogue or Vanity Fair by Annie Leibovitz, and confirms Iowahawk’s observation: “Whom the gods would destroy they first make pose for Annie Leibovitz.”
