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The Morning News
The global economy is roaring ahead without much notice, in the form of digital goods bought and sold inside Fortnite.
↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek 12h

I walked down the aisle and browsed through the books I imagined Bowie might’ve touched. Of course, I looked over every time one of the doors opened, but that day Bowie never stepped inside McNally Jackson.

On David Bowie and books, and trying to arrange a chance encounter with your hero at his favorite bookstore.
↩︎ Longreads
12h
In another first, China has successfully grown a plant in a tiny biosphere on the moon's surface.
↩︎ The Verge 12h
Researchers warn against antibiotic use in space, as gravity conditions can accelerate antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
↩︎ Becker's Hospital Review 12h

Potential degradation of intellectual and emotional capacities, such as critical thinking, personal authority, and emotional well-being, are harder to detect. We don’t fully understand the cause and effect of digital toxins.

Like the Industrial Revolution, the internet must now deal with pollution—in this case, unmitigated hoaxes and fake news.
↩︎ Washington Monthly
12h
How Europeans can register their disapproval of the ridiculous EU Copyright Directive, which threatens how links work on the web.
↩︎ Electronic Frontier Foundation 12h
A solar-powered sound installation in Africa's Namib Desert is playing Toto's "Africa" on infinite repeat.
↩︎ NPR 12h
Probably best to quit your job instead: Experts and coworkers itemize what's OK to eat and drink at your desk.
↩︎ The Guardian 12h
No US president has been removed from office by impeachment. If Trump is the first, here's a guide to what would need to happen.
↩︎ POLITICO Magazine 12h
Trump's version of a border crisis ignores the real reasons there actually is a crisis: more family crossings and asylum claims.
↩︎ The New York Times 13h

Forgive me for saying this, but from where I sit, you’re not quite the maverick you once seemed; I see your clones all the time and they are mostly male and devoid of much pigment.

Talking back to Edward Abbey.
↩︎ Orion Magazine
13h
It's not "his wealth." MacKenzie Bezos started Amazon, and she won't "become" wealthy due to her divorce.
↩︎ WIRED 13h
How to listen like a hostage negotiator: Set aside logic, acknowledge emotions, and repeat back what you hear.
↩︎ Lifehacker 13h
When a US destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan in 2017, officers were too tired to react in time.
↩︎ Navy Times 13h

I can’t think of anything that would exonerate Trump aside from the difficulty of grasping what once would have seemed unimaginable: that a president of the United States could actually have been compromised by a hostile foreign power.

In case you can’t get enough, here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset.
↩︎ The Washington Post
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More US coal-fired power plants were shut in Trump’s first two years than were retired in Obama's first term.
↩︎ Reuters 1d

A lovely short film by Kamau Bilal that's done the festival circuit, about his little brother moving back home at age 23 to live with their parents.

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Your weekly white paper: "Racial resentment is reliably the largest and most precise predictor of attitudes toward immigration."
↩︎ The Washington Post 1d
Museums compete on Twitter to show each other their best ducks.
↩︎ The Museum of English Rural Life / Twitter 1d
Everything read or seen in 2018 by Steven Soderbergh.
↩︎ Extension 765 1d