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“Hold onto what you believe in the light
when the darkness has robbed you of all your sight.”(Source: Spotify)
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This should be required viewing for every American with an Internet connection. But seriously, if you post about politics, please watch this.
From Louis C.K.’s web series, Horace and Pete, which is available for sale (and worth it) on his website here.
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npr:
I came home from a trip the other day with a small plastic bag filled with 4 ounces of brown powder that, truth be told, made me a little nervous.
The powder had a strong odor that reminded me of badly burnt coffee, with perhaps a note of brown sugar.
I didn’t dare open that bag. It contained crude caffeine, about 90 percent pure. That small bag held as much caffeine as 1,000 tall lattes from Starbucks, or 2,000 cans of Coke or Pepsi. It was enough to kill several people.
This was my first encounter with the substance that comes up so often in daily conversation. We speak of being “caffeinated” — sometimes too caffeinated. We consider the choice of caf versus decaf coffee, and whether there’s entirely too much caffeine in energy drinks. Rarely, though, do any of us ever see caffeine, or consider where it comes from.
Caffeine For Sale: The Hidden Trade Of The World’s Favorite Stimulant
Photo: Morgan McCloy/NPR
Well I’m hooked.
(via npr)
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Clarence Thomas Asks 1st Question From Supreme Court Bench In 10 Years »
Good work if you can get it.
(via npr)
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PHOTO: STEVE HELBER—AP
TIME Responds to Confrontation With Secret Service at Trump Event
“We are relieved that Chris is feeling OK”
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The Best Auto-Reply
Via Elan Morgan:
When we give so much of our media space over to discussion about the irritation that is listening to women’s voices, we miss the underlying truth and strengthen an already powerful and ugly cultural bias. This ongoing, superficial public discussion about women’s speech habits is really about our resistance to listening to or featuring women in public discussion. It is not about how women need to be taught how to speak.
The bias against women in public dialog, from the complaints about the way they speak to our reticence to see them in positions of power, limits their participation in the culture and the politics that affect change not only in their own lives but also in their communities and the larger world. This imbalance has deep and broad social, political, and economic impacts for all of us, both women and men.
That is what we really need to be talking about.
Image: Screenshot of an auto-reply email created by Katie Mingle of the design — and design thinking — 99% Invisible podcast.
Don’t like a woman’s voice on the radio? Sounds like a personal problem, not a personnel problem.
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Conan you don’t swipe on Grindr. (I know this for reasons.)
