The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

“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

Swiss chocolate: Scientists cut waste and sugar BBC 

KURSK, BELGOROD, BRYANSK — IS PRESIDENT PUTIN PREPARING FOR ISTANBUL-II? John Helmer. Today’s must read. Suggests Putin is way way behind on the implications of where the way the war has gone, that Russia will be less secure if it leaves a meaningful rump Ukraine, which here would be a large one, by virtue of merely takeing the four oblasts that Russia has deemed to be Russia. 

But Putin per Lavrov pulled the deal offered from the table after the Kursk attack, so Putin may be in the process of the sort of unduly long recalibration he took in deciding to undertake the partial mobilization after the Istanbul talks were sabotaged by the West. Also confirms our thesis that Russia could win the war and lose the peace.

       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 .....

WBUR interview: “Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Louisiana school librarian Amanda Jones. In her new memoir, “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America,” Jones tells the story of the vitriol she received both in person and online after she spoke out against censorship at a public meeting.” Includes an Book excerpt: ‘That Librarian’

 Proton VPN Blog: “News that Telegram(new window) founder and CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested(new window) and charged on a wide range of charges(new window), 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(new window)(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…”