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Online brain rot is undermining our ability to tell meaningful stories
 While social media has the potential to empower storytelling, it can also spread misinformation and lead to brain rot.
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Editor's Note: For cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han, this is a sign of the decline in storytelling. Modern readers have lost the ability to engage deeply with narratives. The "long, slow, lingering gaze" that allows for daydreaming and true distraction has been replaced by a hyper-focused engagement with constant streams of information. As a result, narration is in crisis.
WorkWorkVolunteers Search for ISIS Kidnap Victims No international body is searching for hundreds of Yazidi women and girls still held captive by the Islamist terrorists. Instead, their fates depend on a ragtag army of activists, relatives and armchair detectives.
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WorkA New Generation of 'Unbeatable' Fake IDs Is Bedeviling Bouncers The bar on Avenue A was already packed when a New York University junior joined the door line on a recent Friday night in the East Village. Outside, a stern bouncer scrutinized each person's driver's license to keep out underage drinkers like this 20-year-old. Work
WorkWorkBuild Trust as a Team: Why It's Important & How to Do It I am fortunate to work in a place where I trust my coworkers and have high confidence that they trust me as well. I will admit, that when I first joined Atomic nearly nine years ago, I was a little more wary. My previous work environments were not ones filled with assumed trust.
WorkMetas AI-powered Ray-Bans are life-enhancing for the blind - WSJ (No paywall) Pomeroy, 49 years old, recently bought a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and now a voice inside them does all of those things for her and morefrom helping her get dressed and prepare meals to sorting laundry and reading books to her 3-year-old granddaughter. She also frequently uses the glasses to get the time of day and current temperature outside the couples Warsaw, Ind., home. Work
WorkWorkMap shows states to be hit hardest by winter storms this week Joe Edwards is a Live News Reporter based in Newsweek's London Bureau. He covers U.S. and global news and has a particular interest in U.S. and U.K. politics and social policies. Joe joined Newsweek in April 2024 after graduating from City, University of London with an MA in International Journalism. Prior to this, he studied History and English Literature at the University of Kent. Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected]
WorkTop Russian Officials to Hold Talks With U.S. on Tuesday Top Russian officials will hold talks with U.S. counterparts on restoring ties, negotiating a peaceful settlement to thewar in Ukraineand preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.President Donald Trump,the Kremlin said Monday. Work
WorkWorkUSDA scientists overseeing bird flu response are laid off Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A quarter of the personnel working in nearly 5 dozen U.S. laboratories trying to solve the latest avian influenza outbreak have been laid off as part of the Trump administration's plan to reduce the size of the federal workforce. WorkWorkWorkWorkIts not just AI. Chinas medicines are surprising the world, too - The Economist (No paywall) Keytruda, a cancer-immunotherapy medicine, ranks among the most lucrative drugs ever sold. Since its launch in 2014 it has raked in over $130bn in sales for Merck, its American maker, including $29.5bn last year. In September last year an experimental drug did what none had done before. In late-stage trials for non-small-cell lung cancer, it nearly doubled the time patients lived without the diseaseworseningto 11.1 months, compared with 5.8 months for Keytruda. WorkQuantum Simulation Shows How Universe-Destroying Bubbles Could Grow - Scientific American (No paywall) Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the universe could suffer a false vacuum decay. This would involve a bubble of incomprehensibly destructive power that would spontaneously materialize and ripple through spacetime at the speed of light. Such an event would rewrite the fundamental laws of physics and obliterate our reality in the equivalent of a cosmic cut-and-paste command. WorkElizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create - The New Yorker (No paywall) More than a decade and a half ago, I watched Elizabeth Warren bring a crowd in Washington to its feet with a ringing indictment of Wall Street and the toxic mortgage securities that had pushed the American banking system to the brink of collapse in the great financial crisis of 2008. Warren was then a fiftysomething professor at Harvard Law School, and not very well known. Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate, had recently appointed her to a congressional panel tasked with examining the seven-hundred-billion-dollar bank bailout that George W. Bush had signed into law in October, 2008. As well as lambasting the bankers for their recklessness and greed, Warren was demanding the creation of a new agency to defend the interests of mortgage holders, savings depositors, credit-card holders, and anybody else who was obliged to deal with banks and other financial companies. In 2010, a Democratic-controlled Congress passed the Dodd-Frank reform act, which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (C.F.P.B). Warren served as an adviser to Barack Obama and helped to get the new agency up and running. WorkThe New War on Drugs - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading international affairs experts. WorkWhy the US is freezing as the planet reaches record warmth Theres an overwhelming amount of news, but not enough context. At Vox, we do things differently. Were not focused on being the first to break stories were focused on helping you understand what actually matters. We report urgently on the most important issues shaping our world, and dedicate time to the issues that the rest of the media often neglects. But we cant do it alone. WorkWorkWorkSouthwest Airlines Plans to Cut 15% of Its Work Force Still, the airline, which offers only limited international flights, is a behemoth: Southwest carries more passengers and operates more flights in the United States than any other carrier. The airline is also beloved by fliers, who have routinely given its economy class the highest customer satisfaction scores of any carrier, according to J.D. Power, a market research firm. WorkThousands Gather on Presidents' Day to Call Trump a Tyrant The major group organizing the protest identified itself as the 50501 movement, a grass roots effort to push back against what it views as Mr. Trump’s second term “overreach” in reshaping of the government. Sarah Parker, the executive director of 50501’s member organization Voices of Florida, said the nationwide protests were fueled by a Reddit post that was written and commented by those who were angered from Mr. Trump’s actions and looking for ways to act upon their frustrations. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkNetanyahu seeks to draw Trump into future attack on Iranian nuclear sites “Iran has been weakened in the region – no doubt about it – but they still claim to be leading proponents of the Islamic cause who stand up to western bullying,” he added. “So what might work with certain countries in Europe or in Latin America will not necessarily work with the Iranian regime.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkArgentina president accused of fraud over crypto crash It said Milei was not involved in the cryptocurrency's development, and that the government's Anti-Corruption Office would investigate and determine whether anyone had acted improperly, including the president himself. WorkMeta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable Prof Lehdonvirta said the project appeared to diverge from more established routes, such as by skipping Europe and China and avoiding "geopolitical hotspots" in the Suez canal and South China sea. WorkWorkCan the Federal Reserve Look Past Trump's Tariffs? Mr. Waller acknowledged that the economic impact of the tariffs could be larger than anticipated depending on how they are structured and later put in place. But he suggested that any uptick in prices from tariffs could be blunted by other policies, which could have “positive supply effects and put downward pressure on inflation.” WorkWorkThe New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards The national reporting prize went to Katherine Eban, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, for “Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health,” which examined why a key government agency was slow to respond to the bird flu outbreak. WorkWorkRepublicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut. Those changes are the table stakes. They essentially amount to preserving the status quo. And together they would eat up all but $300 billion of the $4.5 trillion Republicans are giving themselves to cut taxes. That’s not very much money, considering the ambitions Mr. Trump and other Republicans have for the bill. WorkWhy Everyone Is Still Talking About 'Paddington 2' All three films are based on the children’s books about the duffle-coated, hard-staring bear, first published in 1958. In the first movie, Paddington emigrates from Peru to London in a story inspired by the World War II rescue operation that brought nearly 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Europe to England. The second film, directed by Paul King, who wrote the script with Simon Farnaby, is an action adventure with stunning set sequences, following Paddington through a court trial, a prison escape and a daring pursuit by train. WorkWhat Is the Value-Added Tax That Trump So Despises? From the 1950s through the 1970s, many countries, led by France, started experimenting with value-added taxes. Countries in the European Union were proponents, but VATs have been adopted elsewhere as well, notably in China. |
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