Just shared this elsewhere, so I’m going to post it here too — a NYT article from earlier this year on the popularity of Osamu Darzai’s novel No Longer Human (gift link)
Just shared this elsewhere, so I’m going to post it here too — a NYT article from earlier this year on the popularity of Osamu Darzai’s novel No Longer Human (gift link)
“About 5.7 billion people—72 percent of the world’s population—now live under authoritarian rule.”
Read that again. I knew democracy was fragile but not that fragile.
"Ignore for a moment the high likelihood of chaos and dysfunction from a Trump administration staffed with dilettantes, ideologues and former TV personalities. It appears that what Trump intends to do, come January, is break his most popular promises and embrace the most radical parts of his agenda."
Opinion | Trump Has Little Room for Error - The New York Times
Gross.
~ In Display of Fealty, Tech Industry Curries Favor With Trump ~
It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks (donations) and compliments for the President-elect.
J Wortham reflects on our repeated attempts to build a better internet by wishing a return to the original one. #GiftLink #Bluesky
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/magazine/bluesky-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.Y_-A.O9aAAelKvVKO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines
Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.
Gastroenterologists say that since the start of the pandemic in 2020, they have noticed an uptick in IBS and other painful and often puzzling gut conditions, with many seeming to have been caused by previous coronavirus infections. #Covid19
#GiftLink
How Covid Can Change Your Gut ...
RE: Wray's resignation (thread for text, #GiftLink at the end)
"By stepping down now, as the conservative writer Erick Erickson observed, Wray has created a “legal obstacle to Trump trying to bypass the Senate confirmation process.”
"No daylight saving time? See how early or late you would be in the dark." #giftlink
This is the first newspaper article I have ever seen that actually cites an R package.
(Congratulations to the 'suntools' package.)
#rstats #wapo #daylightsavingtime #dst #standardtime #biologicalclocks #biologicalclock #timezones
Looks like it's time to visit Paris!
#GiftLink on an amazing rebirth #NotreDame #Paris
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/05/arts/design/notre-dame-reopens-paris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk4.V4EW.f9YiirqpfPxZ&smid=url-share
V WaPo:
A federal bankruptcy judge has rejected the sale of Alex Jones’s Infowars platform to satirical news website the Onion, ruling Tuesday that the November court-ordered auction of Jones’s website lacked transparency.
The decision capped a two-day hearing that stretched late into the night in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez’s Houston courtroom.
https://wapo.st/3ZufLmD
#GiftLink #NoPaywall
#Tech (and especially #DigitalHumanities) folks:
This article from #NYTimes effectively annotates the famous "A Great Day in Harlem" photograph: the user scrolls, and the frame moves across the image, with additional frames of text and images providing context, notes, etc. popping up as the user continues to scroll.
What is the simplest method or app for putting something like this together, where you are specifically moving across, or zooming in and out, of one particular image? Such "scrollytelling" is something I associate with something like Esri's Story Maps (as one example), but that's not quite right here.
Any suggestions? Feel free to boost.
(This is a #GiftLink so no paywall)
The Netanyahu Corruption Trial, Explained - The New York Times
A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO.
He was carrying a gun, a silencer, and a handwritten manifesto criticizing healthcare companies for putting profits above care.
He also had fake identification, including the ID card he showed at the hostel in New York.
It is unclear what motivated the killing or whether it was tied to Mr. Thompson’s work in the industry.
Come on now.
More evidence that we are living in The Gilded Age, v 2.0: the response to the murder of United Health Care CEO.
I did not know Mark Twain named the era or that US income inequality now exceeds that time.
Hospitals own urgent care centers … and get to charge hospital rates for services.
American #healthcare is beyond broken and reflects the rot of late stage capitalism.
V NYTimes:
#Iran Begins to Evacuate Military Officials and Personnel From #Syria https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/world/middleeast/iran-syria-evacuation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk4.kT5m.jVr6_9cifDcy
#GiftLink #NoPaywall