“A kiss, ‘she said,’ is like music. It stops time...”
~ ~ Matt Haig
The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989 Literary Hub
‘Don’t Trust Google for Customer Service Numbers. It Might Be a Scam.’ Washington Post
Sam Bankman-Fried Didn’t Have ‘Character of a Thief’, Argues Author Michael Lewis Decrypt. Hoo boy.
‘Barely surviving’: Some flight attendants are facing homelessness and hunger Yahoo! News
The thing that will surprise a lot of people is how low Intel pay is in the USA. Hacker News
“Proving them wrong”: After raising minimum wage, California has more fast-food jobs than ever Salon
How Angelina Jolie relates to playing opera singer Maria Callas: "I share her vulnerability
Singing opera was "the therapy I didn't realize I needed," said the actress
George Orwell papers
In The Observer Dalya Alberge reports that 'Businesses are selling off priceless documents piecemeal, after publisher gave the order to 'get rid of' them', in 'It could disappear for ever': Anger over sale of George Orwell archive.
Shocking, really:
All the board asked us to do was to get rid of as much material as possible ... and the rest ... had to be thrown away.But I don't know about the argument: "What hope for future biographers and historians ?" -- surely that's an argument for destroying the whole lot .....
Proton VPN Blog: “News that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested and charged on a wide range of charges, including fraud, drug trafficking, organized crime, and the promotion of terrorism, has thrown a spotlight on the unmoderated nature of the controversial messaging platform. But is Telegram safe to use? As we’ll discuss in this article, that very much depends on how you use it.
Telegram is an open source, cloud-based messaging app that allows you to send text messages, voice messages, photos, videos, and files of various types. It was launched in 2013 by brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, who also founded the Russian social networking site VK(from its original name, VKontakte).
Boasting over 500 million users, Telegram is wildly popular, in no small part due to the widespread perception that it’s highly secure. This perception is only heightened by a number of governments that are trying to block or ban the app, notably Indonesia, Russia, and Iran…”