The Guardian – “Ask questions, and listen to the answers; Ignore the algorithm – listen to music outside your usual taste; Join a local litter-picking group (or do it daily by yourself – works for me); Set up an affordable standing order to a charity; and well…here’s a century of ways to make life better,… Continue Reading
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7 ways to improve your privacy in 2022
Mashable: “Maintaining your online and offline privacy can seem like a Herculean, or even Sisyphean, task. Never-before-heard-of companies with vaguely menacing names regularly brag about infringing upon it, and each day seems to bring with it new privacy scandals. But here’s the thing: There are small and relatively painless steps you can take, right now,… Continue Reading
Celebrate Public Domain Day With Works by Kafka, Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
Hyperallergic: “There’s no better way to observe the dawn of a new year of the roaring 2020s than celebrating Public Domain Day. On January 1, 2022, cultural items in the archive dating from 1926 shed their copyright and made their proper full and proper entrance into society. In 2022, for the first time, a swath… Continue Reading
Five of world’s most powerful nations pledge to avoid nuclear war
The Guardian: “Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” in a rare joint pledge to reduce the risk of such a conflict ever starting. The pledge was signed by the US, Russia, China, the UK and France, the five nuclear weapons… Continue Reading
2022 Banished Words List
Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Mass communication? Miscommunication! Lake Superior State University Banishes Those and Other Familiar but Problematic Words and Terms for 2022. If you’re going to turn to the vernacular to make yourself known, be sure you’re accurate and concise. Avoid error in and exploitation of everyday language. In short, do the opposite of… Continue Reading
What to Ask For When You’re Bumped From a Flight
Lifehacker – Tis the season (Covid) for flight delays, involuntary bumping and cancellations en mass. Here are the facts:If you’re standing at a gate and an attendant offers compensation, it’s important you know how much cash you’re entitled to. Technically, under regulations by the Department of Transportation, there is no limit to the amount of… Continue Reading
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
The Guardian – Johann Hari: “Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can… I travelled all over the world in the next three years, from Miami to Moscow to Melbourne, interviewing the leading experts in the world about… Continue Reading
Every productivity system stops working eventually and there’s nothing you can do about it
Alexey Guzey – “You’ve most likely tried the pomodoro technique. You set the timer for 25 minutes, then take a 5 minute break, then set the timer for 25 minutes again, then at some point you take a longer break and so on. I predict that pomodoro technique eventually broke down for the following reasons:… Continue Reading
Betty White Was Always on TV She’s owned the medium—in multiple ways—for its entire history.
Vulture: “Betty White, the most durable television star of all time and one of the most beloved and groundbreaking, died just short of her hundredth birthday. She was preceded in death by TV broadcasting as millions knew it, and then outlived it, adapting to a transformed entertainment landscape more gracefully than the medium that she… Continue Reading
Paralysed man sends tweet using only his mind after microchip installed in brain
Mirror UK: “A paralysed man has become the first person to tweet a message to the world using only direct thought. The feat was pulled off by Philip O’Keefe – a motor neurone disease patient – using a microchip implant that picks up his brain signals. It’s been described as the “first direct-thought tweet” after… Continue Reading
Who’s a Good Dog? The Dogs of 2021 Are
Via Twitter – WeRateDogs® – enjoy 5 minutes of dog centric cheer. Continue Reading
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
Washington Post: “China is turning a major part of its internal Internet-data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets, according to a Washington Post review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts and company filings. China maintains a… Continue Reading
