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What becoming the last critic standing at a major Boston newspaper—and getting cursed out by Steven Tyler—taught me about our clickbait-fueled era.
“Is this the prick who ripped my new album?” Steven Tyler shouted through the phone.
We all fall hook, line, and sinker for handwritten menus. That’s in part because McDonald’s wouldn’t dare try to give us one.
It’s easy to love that little cafe in your city–you know the one. The tables are too cramped. The prices are too high. The scallops are too done. And the handwritten menus are downright illegible in the soft glow of candlelight. But it has so much soul! You can feel the love!
Don’t eat lunch at your desk. Stop fetishizing being busy. Unplug not just from your screen–but from the clock.
Before the Civil War, the Sabbath was the only time that most free, working Americans had off. In the late 1860s, while there were a few unenforced eight-hour-day laws on the books, most Americans worked 10 to 12 hours a day. In fact, the word weekend did not even exist until the 1870s. The first documented use of the word was in 1879, when a British magazine explained, “If a person leaves home at the end of his week’s work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at so-and-so.”
Americans have a different view of what “retirement” means for them, and the workplace should take note.
The association of old age with inevitable decline runs deep. To carry on with work–or indeed with anything more demanding than afternoon lectures, a movie, and an early dinner–during the traditional retirement years seems cute at best and depressing at worst.
The employees, many of whom have worked on the product for years, say they want HoloLens to be used for good, not war, per a new $480 million Army contract.
A group of Microsoft employees who worked on the company’s HoloLens headset are angry that the U.S. Army plans to use the augmented reality device in battle, not just in training.
As advertisers such as Disney and Epic Games punish the platform with a boycott because of videos of minors used by pedophiles, marketers and agencies are coming to grips with the trade-off between scale and safety.
Here we are again. Once again, content control on YouTube is being questioned, and once again advertisers are pulling out over concerns that their brands are appearing alongside inappropriate content. This time, it’s how videos of minors are being used to create what one video blogger called a “soft-core pedophilia ring.”
“There are many dangers,” warns the narrator, who speaks only in meows.
Japan’s largest auto parts and service chains, Yellow Hat, takes traffic safety seriously for all of Japan’s citizens. To help promote careful driving and encourage mindful pedestrian behavior, they have teamed up with a group of psychologists from Kyoto University to create a high-impact traffic safety video that targets those most vulnerable to traffic. Specifically, cats.
The federal government shutdown may be over, but it has created a hunger crisis among food stamp recipients that continues to linger.
When the U.S. government shut down in late December, the USDA’s budget expired and the agency was forced to use an emergency 30-day provision to distribute its next round of monthly SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, colloquially known as food stamps) to low-income recipients. Those vouchers, meant for February, arrived early–around January 20.
The recent documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly,” likely helped bring his case to a head.
It took decades, but it looks as though R. Kelly’s past has finally caught up with him.
(Male) pilots and (female) flight attendants are reportedly treated differently.
The flight attendants’ union has filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that American Airlines discriminated against its predominantly female flight attendants by enforcing attendance policies more strictly than for its predominantly male pilots.
Kinsa has taken the data from its smart thermometers and mapped where people are getting sick.
If you’re wondering where illness is spreading in the U.S. right now, the official CDC flu map might not be particularly helpful; it’s based on data that’s both delayed and not very local. Instead, try this new map that uses anonymous data from smart thermometers. When someone gets a fever, the data helps build a detailed picture of who’s sick.
Signia Hilton gets down to work.
If you’re looking for a space for your next conference or want a shiny new spot for a team retreat, Hilton has a new brand just for you. Today, the hotel chain announced its latest addition–Signia Hilton, meant to give business travelers, conference planners, and digital nomads everything they want in an all-in-one hotel and work space.
Superlative much?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took rhetorical superlatives to a new level today when he stated that Amazon’s decision to cancel a planned headquarters in Queens was a catastrophe with no equal.
Qantas has the largest carbon offset scheme of any airline in the world.
Qantas is getting rid of some of the extra baggage it has been carrying around. The Australian airline just announced a plan to become the world’s first airline to reuse, recycle, and compost at least three-quarters of its trash by the end of 2021. Since plastic still doesn’t biodegrade or easily recycle, Qantas also plans to remove more than 100 million single-use plastic items that it uses in flights and lounges by the end of 2020. It also announced a new Frequent Flyer initiative to increase voluntary carbon offsetting. This may be the most ambitious waste reduction target of any major airline anywhere on the planet—and the planet really needs the help.
What other 2018 film was as well-made, important and–crucially–awesome as “Black Panther”?
The rule in Wakanda is that, on Challenge Day, any warrior from one of the nation’s five tribes may battle the newly anointed king for the throne. Although Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma is the odds-on favorite to win Hollywood’s own personal Challenge Day, the Academy Awards, only one challenger is mighty enough to pull off an upset on coronation day. And don’t you dare say it’s Green Book.
The CEO of ZipRecruiter believes now is a great time to start a business–if you’ve spent time working for someone else.
If you ask someone how Steve Jobs started Apple, they’re likely to mention a particular Silicon Valley garage, but not the time 12-year-old Steve Jobs worked on an assembly line at Hewlett-Packard as a summer intern. Was Jobs a phenom? Of course. Did he wake up one day, drop out of college, and invent the iPhone? Of course not.
IARPA is seeking proposals to keep AI from leaking sensitive training data and avoid hidden bad behavior.
The U.S. spy community’s R&D agency is looking into how to keep AI software from unwittingly divulging information about sensitive training data and from secretly being trained to be malicious.
The class action suit says inmates were promised they would keep purchased music forever, then lost access when the prison system switched media providers.
A Florida prison inmate filed a federal class action lawsuit saying he and other prisoners bought digital music on special players for $1.70 per song, then lost access when the Department of Corrections switched tech vendors.
Don’t blame the messenger.
Much as I find this baffling, a sizable segment of the moviegoing population apparently does not agree with me that The Favourite should win best picture this year.
It’s the fifth age-discrimination lawsuit Ikea is facing in the United States in just over a year.
Ikea has been hit with its fifth lawsuit in just over a year in U.S. courts, alleging age discrimination.
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