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NYT details Amazon working conditions

The New York Times publishes an article titled, Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, that talks about difficult working conditions at Amazon. At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held […]

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Voting rights defense

President Obama writes letter to New York Times saying voting rights must be vigorously defended. The Times published the letter in response to an article in its Sunday magazine last month describing efforts to undercut or dismantle the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Obama: These efforts are not a sign that we have moved past the shameful history […]

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Exploitative nature of filmmaking

Fukunaga comments on need to protect the people he has worked with: Films of this nature have the potential to affect not only the lives of the viewers, but also the lives of the participants of the production. As a filmmaker, I am aware that I am not in the public service; my first job […]

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‘I don’t need to be lectured’

In an article for USA Today, Trump says that his words on McCain have been distorted by the media, and criticizes McCain and Sanders for “covering up” the Veterans Affairs Scandal: Thanks to McCain and his Senate colleague Bernie Sanders, their legislation to cover up the VA scandal, in which 1,000+ veterans died waiting for medical […]

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‘The trolls are winning the battle’

In an article for The Washington Post, Pao says trolls are winning the “battle for the internet”. She says that, while at Reddit, she and several colleagues, were targeted with harassing messages, attempts to post her private information online and death threats. I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history. And I […]

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Writes two blog posts

Abdulazeez writes two Islam-themes blog posts, the only posts on his blog. In the first, A Prison Called Dunya, Abdulazeez uses the hypothetical example of a prisoner who is told he would be given a test that would either take him out of his earthly prison—or send him into a more restrictive environment. I would imagine that […]

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Financial Times Greek crisis op-ed

Ferguson writes an editorial about the Greek financial crisis in The Financial Times. Yes, it is quite possible that, in this weekend’s theatre-of-the-absurd referendum, the Greek people may vote “No” to a programme that is no longer available, and that this (despite their prime minister’s protestations to the contrary) may ultimately lead to their departure […]

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NYT op-ed

Snowden writes an op-ed for the New York Times on the second anniversary of the release of his disclosures: Two years on, the difference is profound. In a single month, the N.S.A.’s invasive call-tracking program was declared unlawful by the courts and disowned by Congress. After a White House-appointed oversight board investigation found that this program had […]

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Josie: I Am Not a ‘Pretty Little Liar’

In an anonymous posting to Jezebel, one of Nungesser’s alleged victims tells more about her case and defends herself: When I filed the complaint against Paul, I didn’t know it would turn into a national event. It was over a year before Emma started carrying that weight, months before what happened at Columbia helped sparked […]

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Defends NSA’s snooping program

Rubio writes an article in USA Today defending NSA’s phone-snooping program. He claims that there has not been a not a single documented case of abuse of NSA’s program. The government is not listening to your phone calls or recording them unless you are a terrorist or talking to a terrorist outside the United States…There […]

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‘We will not be silenced’

Oz hits back at his critics and vows to continue exploring alternative routes to healing. I have spent my entire career searching for ways to lessen the suffering of my patients. The best and safest paths have generally been the traditions of conventional medicine. They are tried and true, well funded, and fast. But there […]

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Fails $29 food stamp challenge

Paltrow writes that her perspective on hunger is forever changed after trying to live on $29 worth of SNAP benefits (food stamps) for a week. She grades her effort with a C-. As I suspected, we only made it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables (and […]

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The best lesson I learned from joining a board

In an article for Fortune, De Baubigny talks about the personal impact of becoming a board member of Bono and Bobby Shriver’s Product RED initiative: Joining a board also shaped me as a professional in more ways than I could imagine. It tested first-hand everything that I was advising our entrepreneurs to do as they built their companies: […]

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Religious freedom laws ‘dangerous’

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Cook says recent ‘religious freedom’ laws are pro discrimination: There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew […]

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Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz

In a New Yorker article Dunham posts a 35-point quiz: Do the following statements refer to (a) my dog or (b) my Jewish boyfriend? 1. The first thing I noticed about him was his eyes 2. We love to spend hours in bed together on Sunday mornings. 3. He’s crazy for cream cheese. 4. It hasn’t always been […]

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Bubble Talk bet

Altman discusses recent talk of a bubble in Silicon Valley valuations: I’m tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there’s a bubble in tech.  I understand that it’s fun to do and easy press, but it’s boring reading.  I also understand that it might scare newer investors away and bring down valuations, but there’s […]

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Ovaries removed

Jolie undergoes a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy to have her ovaries removed, after her doctor warns her that she could have cancer. She is entering early menopause and can no longer have children. Describing the process: Your CA-125 is normal,” he said. I breathed a sigh of relief. That test measures the amount of the protein CA-125 in […]

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Warns supporters

In his column in The Sun, Clarkson warns his supporters that protests never work The simple truth of the matters is this: Protest never works. Because we are all plankton. And the world is run by whales. Oh, you can be a big and important plankton but that doesn’t make a jot of difference if a […]

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Wants AI regulation

Altman warns that superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is a danger to humans and should be regulated (original blog post here): The U.S. government, and all other governments, should regulate the development of SMI. In an ideal world, regulation would slow down the bad guys and speed up the good guys — it seems like what happens […]

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BBC’s future of news ‘misguided’

Highfields writes an editorial for The Yorkshire Post, about the BBC’s moves into regional news. When I first read the BBC’s Future of News report last week I’m not sure what depressed me most – the inflammatory language used, the misguided sentiment behind it, or the fact that the BBC intends parking a tank on […]