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They thought that the bombastic showman they saw on the campaign trail in 2016 was an act and that Trump would rise to the dignity of the presidency

I’d expect that quite a few people will resonate with this statement

This is going to be epic

Sounds like they made good decision with hiring Renate. Reading her post actually makes me want to join them and be part of that journey.

The original Greek word for apocalypse – apokalypsis – does not mean “end times”. It means “to unveil”. This is the apocalypse we are living through: a process of unveiling and revealing. Patriarchy is not inevitable. It is not sustainable. If we are to survive and thrive as a species, we must first reveal it, and then undo it: in our systems, and in ourselves.

Powerful stuff

Small decisions with a huge impact. I feel like a lot of people out there need to read this. But then again... the people I’m thinking about probably don’t read to begin with. sigh

I largely agree with that. I’d even go further and say that some companies have positions just for the sake of positions and that you could easily reduce the workforce and these companies can still operate just as well.

platforms have a clear role to play in protecting the health of our information ecosystem

Except there is no regulation as to how they should be doing that...

This is hilarious. I'm not on tinder (got married before it was a thing) and it amazes me how the dynamics of dating have shifted

I'm so worried about governments who claim to make decisions based on "morality".

This is quite thought provoking

This is super fascinating. I think part of society becoming a mature user of social media is understanding the dynamics described in this article

That’s pretty impressive. Let’s hope it works out

Very well thought through and I like how it closes:

The plague is not an inventor. It is a time machine, pulling us forward into a future that was, perhaps, already on its way.

That’s an excellent way of looking at it. I like that way of comparing Newton vs Darwin.

Oh man. I feel for all those impacted in countries that don’t have any (or at least no sufficient) unemployment support payments

It seems that this is primarily a clash between local Indian culture and a tech ecosystem built by white people for the west where the abuse is nuanced differently

This is so interesting and I love how governments feel that they can somehow ban activists from spreading the words. This example shows how there are always alternatives. Go freedom of speech!

Jeez, this dude sounds like a control freak with no ability to see things from someone else’s perspective - even after trying to reflect on it with this article. I’d divorce him too lol

This is cool. I like it

This story made my day. I actually had to LOL

After all, thinking big is a quality that sets the ultra-successful apart from the rest.

I agree with that completely

I feel like this is easy to say as someone who has “made it”. I’m sure there are plenty of people at the opposite end... he just doesn’t seem to be friend with them...

When I was 17 I decided to study economics. One of my uncles was present when I announced it to the family. He told me to study it and then I figure out a model that doesn’t rely on growth. At the time I had no idea what he was trying to say but over the years I became extremely aware of the challenge he gave me and that this truly is the crux of it all

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This whole thing makes me so sad and frustrated. The system is broken beyond repair...

Hands down the best thing I’ve read in 2020!

I’ve been saying for a few months that the worst is yet to come. We shall see

These stats are super interesting. Great read.

half of my effort wasn’t effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best.

Quite the lesson

Oh no... this is very bad! You need to read it all and please make it to the end where it explains the below quote (you’ll know why I wrote this!)

Right now, the best we can do is an ad hoc defense of democracy. Begin by rejecting the temptation to think that this election will carry on as elections usually do. Something far out of the norm is likely to happen. Probably more than one thing. Expecting other­wise will dull our reflexes. It will lull us into spurious hope that Trump is tractable to forces that constrain normal incumbents.

If you are a voter, think about voting in person after all. More than half a million postal votes were rejected in this year’s primaries, even without Trump trying to suppress them. If you are at relatively low risk for COVID-19, volunteer to work at the polls. If you know people who are open to reason, spread word that it is normal for the results to keep changing after Election Night. If you manage news coverage, anticipate extra­constitutional measures, and position reporters and crews to respond to them. If you are an election administrator, plan for contingencies you never had to imagine before. If you are a mayor, consider how to deploy your police to ward off interlopers with bad intent. If you are a law-enforcement officer, protect the freedom to vote. If you are a legislator, choose not to participate in chicanery. If you are a judge on the bench in a battleground state, refresh your acquaintance with election case law. If you have a place in the military chain of command, remember your duty to turn aside unlawful orders. If you are a civil servant, know that your country needs you more than ever to do the right thing when you’re asked to do otherwise.

This topic is super interesting but he article doesn’t explain well enough that Oracle/Walmart don’t actually own TikTok. They literally just took a 20% stake and agreed to host US data within the US. That’s all. Nothing else changes.

What really is concerning is the excise about the suicide video. That was originally streamed on Facebook. Facebook immediately removed it and stopped it from being shared further. It made its way into TikTok where it continued to spread.

Great article. I feel like we ended up in a really weird dimension of the universe

the reality that you just can’t tell from the outside whether something is a dream job—or whether it’ll end up being a nightmare job, or a just-OK job

True that

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If you’re into this sort of analysis of social media, check out the social dilemma on Netflix!

Great article. I wasn’t aware of the para-military army that’s being built.

For me, this has long been the key question:

why does it seem like no amount of logic, evidence, or factual information about Trump has any impact on the support of a typical white Trump voter?

Omg, what a circus

It's not that it's impossible to find love on dating apps—it certainly isn't. But it is a brute force trial and error approach

Oh man, I’m so glad I’m out of the dating business.

I disagree with a lot of what the author writes. It’s not Amazon’s responsibility to decide if a book is true or false. All Amazon is supposed to do is sell books that people want to buy. If the government wants to block books from being sold, they can do that but I have a whole other issue with such government imposed censorship.

Great read. Really well written.

Also, didn’t expect to find this gem sentence in here:

Work all day to make a rich dude slightly richer! He might thank you, but probably not!