Sam Kahn captures the zeitgeist of every decade from the 1880s to today, one paragraph at a time.
1940s — Dapper, cool under pressure, dedicated to duty. Gregory Peck’s Frank Savage in Twelve O’Clock High, chatting amiably with his driver, having one last cigarette, and then tossing it aside, switching to the backseat and becoming all of a sudden a hard-driving, no-nonsense Air Force General.
The FBI created its own cryptocurrency to catch scammers in pump-and-dump schemes. It would be much easier to simply identify the crypto companies that are not scammers. Are there any?
Apple MacOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. Of personal interest to me; my first tech journalism job was at UNIX Today! (the exclamation was part of the name — my fellow UNIX nerds will recognize the punctuation symbol as a “bang.")
When I first heard “every accusation is a confession,” I thought it was just political joke. I’ve been shocked the extent to which it’s the literal truth.
This is just the latest conservative/Republican leader whose history of animal abuse caught up with them. Trump and Vance are right that people are killing and abusing animals, but it’s their own faction doing it.
Normal people hearing about a robot that makes burgers: “Wow! So futuristic!”
People who have worked in restaurants: “Who’s gonna clean it”
I just ordered business cards. What next? Will I send a fax? Will I receive a memo in a pneumatic tube?
Right-wing terrorists, led by Trump, are making death threats against local government officials, FEMA workers and even TV weather people in Florida and North Carolina. It’s part of a rising idiocracy.
Misinformation is too technical, too freighted, and, after almost a decade of Trump, too political. Nor does it explain what is really happening, which is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality, as well as those who have financial and political interests in keeping up the charade.
— I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is, by Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic
