OMM (On My Mind) – November 2023 – #3
~ findings & research ~
::: The Open :::
Dear Reader,
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With Gratitude,
Mark
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::: Coming Soon :::
New ‘On Your Mind’ posts in conversation with poets and writers.
If you’d like to write about what’s On Your Mind, please reach out and we’ll discuss.
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::: Weekly Podcast Recommendations :::
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The Gray Area – A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
A respectful and thoughtful conversation.
I am on board for 70-80% of what is discussed. Feeling positive about that.
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Intelligence Squared – The Identity Trap of Modern Politics
This episode covers A LOT of territory – from woke to tumblr to CRT and even challenges the particular brand of antiracism created and preached by Ibram X. Kendi
Info: Yascha Mounk On The Identity Trap, with Tomiwa Owolade
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The Good Fight (hosted by Yascha Mounk) – Angus Deaton on America’s Deaths of Despair
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Fresh Air – Werner Herzog
Funny and serious.
Treat yourself to the joyous darkness.
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We Can Do Hard Things – The Cure for Emotional Isolation
I often find this podcast difficult to listen to… maybe that comes as no surprise.
The material is often very good.
In any case, serious and heartfelt thoughts are shared in this episode. I felt worthwhile to listen all the way through.
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::: Music :::
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‘The 25 greatest cover songs of all time, ranked’ (AV Club)
Humorously bad list.
From the weird to the obvious.
There are tons of great cover songs in recent times. Seems like bias, but honestly I think artists are simply getting better at pulling them off.
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There’s a 17-second song out there that the internet low-key freaking out about. They can’t figure out who created it and, in the Middle Stage Internet (attempted joke on Late State Capitalism that isn’t working), people expect we should be able to figure out the OG source of pretty much anything… with the possible exception of the identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator known as Satoshi Nakamoto and Banksy. In both cases, it’s best we don’t know.
The unmasking of Elena Ferrante wasn’t needed. This doesn’t prove the rule or anything, I’m just saying it’s an example of why having some mystery in contemporary society is exciting and fun and sometimes useful.
On the flipside, anonymity has all sorts of problems…on the internet. And we know this to be true. Just look at how people behave on Reddit and Twitter.
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‘The 40 Best New Bands Of 2023’ (Stereogum)
Have I heard of these bands? Um…pretty much, no, for the most part.
Sure, I’ve heard of a few.
Of the few I’ve heard of and heard tracks by, do I like them? No.
Am I over 30 and can’t be trusted? Yes.
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::: The Arts & The Literary World:::
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Brecht de Poortere – Top 1000 Literary Magazines
There’s a link to download an Excel spreadsheet.
As has been noted before, this focuses on fiction.
I think Brecht does a great job aggregating this list.
Using Twitter (X) followers as a metric is questionable. That being said, Chill Subs also uses this. I point it out, in part, because it says something about who uses which platforms and demographics. ONE ART has a lot of Facebook followers and that does say something about our readership. In fact, a large percentage of “traffic” on the ONE ART website comes from clicks via Facebook. Meanwhile, ONE ART receives comparably little intersection on Twitter (X).
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‘Publishers should seek billions from Google, study argues’ (Semafor)
This is a BIG deal.
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Erika Dreifus shares 18 Ways to Address Antisemitism in Your Literary Life
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Speaking of antisemitism… this story is INSANE.
‘Wawa CEO Condemns Antisemitic Incident at Upper Darby Store’ (Philly Mag)
“Maybe I’m naive, but I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”
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‘The Rise of Instagram Poetry and Why People Love to Hate It’ (The Zillennial Zine)
I wrote a longform essay on this.
I’ve never received any significant feedback and I’d welcome some.
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‘Has It Ever Been Harder to Make a Living As An Author?’
This article in Esquire has been making rounds. It’s essentially a reminder (that few writers really needed) not to quit your day job. There are very few who “make it” and fewer who can live of having made it.
“If you hear somebody gets $300,000 for their book, that sounds amazing. But realistically, did it take them five years to write that book? Do they need to pay off an MFA?””
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“The survey, which drew responses from 5,699 published authors, found that in 2022, their median gross pre-tax income from their books was $2,000. When combined with other writing-related income, the total annual median income was $5,000.” (Publishers Weekly)
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‘Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: SFWA's Comments to the US Copyright Office’ (Writer’s Beware)
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‘The Future of Books’ (Esquire)
Mostly on point…also, a bummer.
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‘Crisis at the 92nd Street Y’ (Jewish Currents)
Shout-out to Roxane Gay’s substack where I heard it first.
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“Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.” (Columbia News)
Shout-out to Roxane Gay’s substack where I heard it first.
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‘10 Excellent Poetry Books About Mental Health’ (Book Riot)
Plug: Two of my forthcoming collections (one which is a focus on my mother’s poetry) have a focus on mental health.
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‘This Year’s University Press Week Showcases Work That Sparks Conversation’ (Lit Hub)
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A man has been getting credit for something first done by a woman. No surprise here. See the link to find out who it is this time around. (Lit Hub)
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‘How to Title Your Art: Why Art Titles are Important’ (Art Business)
The focus is visual art, in this instance.
Shout-out to Austin Kleon’s substack where I found this article.
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::: Health & Wellness :::
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Obesity drug Wegovy found to cut rate of heart attacks by patients already taking heart medication by 28%, cardiovascular deaths by 15%, and stroke incidents by 7%
That being said, these drugs are very new and people have experienced some terrible side effects (including death…which should be listed as something a little more extreme than a “side effect”).
I wouldn’t be quick to jump on any of these new meds even though they are showing promise in several areas. It’s not worth your life.
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Life expectancy in men (in the U.S.) has gone down… again. Average: 73.5 vs. 79.3 for women. (Semafor)
Reasons include: Diabetes, heart disease, suicide, drug-related deaths.
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‘The Cost of Living With a Disability in America’ (Esquire)
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‘Americans cautious about the deployment of driverless cars’ (Pew Research Center)
I’m certainly not eager to get in a driverless car any time soon.
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More and more Americans are saying they are experiencing “brain fog”. This is believed to be associated with “long covid”; however, I’ve wondered about this from the get go. I don’t doubt people’s subjective experiences (trust me, I have my own ailments and I’m used to having doctors dismiss them over the years). With that in mind, I wonder if this is something beyond having come down with a full-blown case of covid. I believe I’ve written about my suspicions surrounding this before… For me, personally, in the early days of covid, I was fairly convinced I was going to die from it. I don’t think I’m alone in this feeling. I think many worried that they would get covid and die. For those that came down with covid, especially before the vaccines were rolled out, there was both greater danger and greater fear. My sense is that this has created a covid-related PTSD. This would currently fall under the “long covid” umbrella. I don’t know how much research is being done on precisely this angle. I think it’s worth considering psychotherapy modalities for those who are experiencing long covid. I’m not a doctor so, please, run thoughts/questions by a licensed physician.
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‘How our memories of COVID-19 are biased — and why it matters’ (Nature)
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‘Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?’ (Vox)
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Walking has plummeted across America (Axios)
Even post-covid, when it seemed like everyone was taking more walks… people are walking less.
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::: Small Explorations & Deep Dives :::
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Grins & Glocks?? (Shout-out to Roxane Gay’s substack where I heard it first.)
“Gladwell said he was surprised that the gun promotion stirred up so much attention when their good deeds go unnoticed.”
Is this implication that this is not a good deed after all?
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Tai Chi Can Add “Extra Years” of Healthy Cognitive Function to Your Life, Study Finds
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Grade inflation has become the norm.
“Nine in 10 parents believe their child is at or above grade level in reading and math. If they're using their child's report card as a main indicator, it's understandable, as roughly 80% of students in the U.S. receive B's or better.” (Gallup)
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Nepal banned TikTok for “disturbing social harmony” (Semafor)
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“South Africa is set to become the first African country to introduce shared parental leave following a ruling by the Johannesburg High Court.” (Semafor)
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“According to a YouGov survey, those considering China an "enemy" of America grew to 80% in Aug 2023, up from ~39% in the same month in 2017, while those considering the country as an "ally" shrunk considerably to just 8.7% as of August.” (Chartr)
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‘Colombia passes ambitious ‘junk food law’ to tackle lifestyle diseases’ (Guardian)
Not a fan of regressive taxes though it’s hard to disagree that heavily taxing foods that are bad for people, made purposefully addictive by nefarious corporations, and result in a burden on healthcare systems (since eating terribly results in otherwise avoidable/preventable diseases) is a bad thing.
On the flip, I think we go a bit too far (in the U.S.) when it comes to vice taxes. Lots of people in recovery (for drug and alcohol addictions), for example, are smokers. Why double down on someone who is trying to make better choices? Sure, smoking isn’t good… but you’ll like live a relatively long life as a smoker.
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‘How To Make A Successful Career Change At 40’ (Forbes)
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‘Pope forcibly removes a leading US conservative, Texas bishop Strickland’ (AP News)
Don’t tolerate bullies.
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‘A Scientist Says the Singularity Will Happen by 2031’ (Popular Mechanics)
It might. “Experts” are wrong about these sorts of predictions All. The. Time.
That being said, I heard 3-6 years from AGI (AI that can begin to teach itself) in 2022…so, it really could come any day now.
Caveat, this year, there has been an increased call for slowing down AI progress due to fears and the threat of AI run amok. It’s possible that because of this we may (thankfully) avoid a catastrophic situation.
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Venus et Fleur = sad poetry
Via Google Bard:
Venus et Fleur uses a proprietary, non-toxic solution and color pigmentation process to keep flowers fresh for months. The roses are hand-picked from a rose farm in South America at the perfect bloom. The roses are treated and dipped in a thin wax layer to preserve them.
The process works like this:
1. The roses are rehydrated.
2. The roses are injected with a wax-based, hypoallergenic, non-toxic solution that stunts their growth but keeps their soft texture and shape.
3. The natural sap inside the rose is replaced with a preserving solution of glycerine, water.
4. The roses are dyed.
5. The roses are frozen in time.
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Quora:
“They are not “alive” when they become “Venus et Fleur”. Yes, they are made from fresh roses, but the final product is not live plant matter anymore. Fresh roses (if I am not mistaken, they only use red ones) are first bleached, then dehydrated, then soaked in various colorants to give them necessary hue.”
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‘Ranked: The Most Innovative Countries in 2023’ (Visual Capitalist)
The U.S. is #3
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Catbird x boygenius – Bite the Hand
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Climate change (or whatever a person is comfortable calling it)— is real, is making your loved ones sick, and is poisoning the planet for future generations. (NPR)
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ICYMI: Extreme weather events in the U.S. are getting worse and more frequent.
‘Major US climate disasters occur every three weeks, report finds’ (Nature)
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More research on the benefits of the four-day work week.
‘Why stop at the four-day workweek? How to think about leisure time for all.’ (Vox)
“Three 12s”, common among healthcare workers, is not ideal.
Four 10-hour days are probably not the quality-of-life solution.
Is there a Goldilocks scenario? Does it involve some combo of WFH &/or hybrid?
“When leisure time was understood as the measure of freedom through the early 20th century, it wasn’t primarily because more leisure time would be good for business. It was that human life could be about more than business. The struggle for subsistence, the “economic problem” as Keynes called it, is not the “permanent problem of the human race.” Selling the four-day week as a productivity boon belies the point: As it was historically understood by many, the point of raising productivity was to expand human leisure, not the other way around. Justifying leisure in terms of productivity is like justifying a vacation in terms of how much work you could get done once you’re back and well-rested.”
“But the old ideal of leisure, what the poet Walt Whitman called both “higher progress” and “the task of America,” held that human potential goes far beyond the scope of what’s good for business. “The world of work,” Pieper cautioned, “threatens to become our only world … grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.” Leisure expands the world beyond work, adding a richness and depth that exceeds the logic of business.”
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We have entered a new age where we talk about such things as a “vampire virus”
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23% — Fewer than one in four U.S. employees strongly agree that they can apply their organization’s values to their work every day (Gallup)
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon down 22% in a year (phys.org)
It’s a 5-year low!
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“4.3 million people are forecast to face crisis-level hunger or worse by the end of this year.” – U.N. Spokesperson (Semafor)
Countries that are facing the worst hunger situation (in part due to climate disasters, in some instances) are Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Haiti, India, Venezuela, Indonesia.
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‘Nat Geo reveals breathtaking photos of wildlife, science, travel for 2023 'Pictures of the Year' (USA Today)
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‘Mother of 6-year-old boy who shot teacher gets 21 months for marijuana use while owning a gun’ (AP News)
I’m actually confused by the following…and I sense racism at play.
“[…] using marijuana while owning a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law.”
For the record, I don’t use marijuana. Why? Well, for one thing, I appear to be allergic to it. There are other reasons by I don’t want to distract from this article.
I have mixed feelings about gun ownership; however, marijuana should be legalized (a majority of Americans now say this in polls) + Americans (at least some of them) are very pro-gun. That being said, Americans evidently have strong opinions about who should have the right to own guns and who should be allowed to use recreational marijuana.
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“Elon Musk was criticized for endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX agreed with a post on his social media network X which claimed that Jewish communities promoted “hatred against whites,” with Musk writing: “You have said the actual truth.” The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg described the message as the “inevitable destination” of an “online radicalization spiral” while the Financial Times’ Edward Luce wrote that “a rubicon has been crossed by the world’s richest man.” The controversy came as The New York Times reported that antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech had “surged across the internet” since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, with huge numbers of violent and aggressive posts across X, as well as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.” (Semafor)
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Glasses designed to help those who are colorblind see fall beauty and more. (The Washington Post)
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‘A Surprising Shift in Economics’ (The New York Times)
What follows are direct quotes:
A then-obscure think tank named the Roosevelt Institute released a report in 2015 that called for a new approach to economic policy. It was unabashedly progressive, befitting the history of the institute, which was created by trusts honoring Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
But much has changed in the past eight years.
President Biden has enacted the biggest government investment programs in decades, two of which — in infrastructure and semiconductor development — received bipartisan support. Both the Biden and Trump administrations showed more interest in antitrust policy than their predecessors. Many states, blue and red, have increased their minimum wages. American workers have become more interested in unionizing, and labor unions in both the auto industry and Hollywood have recently won big victories. Even some Republican politicians speak positively about unions.
The simplest explanation for the shift is that the old economic approach hasn’t worked very well for most Americans. Starting in the 1980s, the U.S. moved toward an economic policy that’s variously described as laissez-faire, neoliberal or market-friendly. It involved much lower taxes for the wealthy, less regulation of business, an expansion of global trade, a crackdown on labor unions and an acceptance of very large corporations.
The people selling this policy — like Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics — promised that it would bring prosperity for all. It has not.
Incomes for the bottom 90 percent of workers, as ranked by their earnings, have trailed economic growth, and wealth inequality has soared. For years, Americans have told pollsters that they were unhappy with the country’s direction. Perhaps most starkly, the U.S. now has the lowest life expectancy of any affluent country; in 1980, American life expectancy was typical.
Conventional wisdom rarely changes quickly. Friedman and his fellow laissez-faire intellectuals spent decades on the fringes, before the 1970s oil crisis and other economic problems caused many Americans to embrace their approach. But conventional wisdom can change eventually. And after decades of unmet promises about the benefits of a neoliberal economy, more people have grown skeptical of it recently.
Donald Trump also played a crucial role. He won the Republican nomination in 2016 while defending Social Security and Medicare and criticizing free trade and high immigration, two pillars of neoliberalism. By doing so, he proved that even many Republican voters had drifted from the views of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.
As president, Trump often contradicted his own populist rhetoric. (His one big piece of legislation was a tax cut that mostly benefited the rich.) But he shattered so many basic norms of governance that Democrats came to think they too could discard long-held beliefs. As Neera Tanden, who is now Biden’s top domestic policy adviser, said to me in 2018, “Donald Trump has widened the aperture for policy discussions in the United States.”
For all the progress it has made, the movement remains far from its biggest goals. In many ways, Americans are still living in the Reagan era. Taxes on the rich remain low. Corporations are much larger than in the past, and they can often prevent workers from forming unions even when most employees at a work site want to join one. Many progressive proposals, like universal pre-K, remain dreams.
In the short term, the biggest question is probably whether Biden can win re-election, given Trump’s lack of a consistent economic policy. One threat to Biden’s re-election is voters’ unhappiness with the economy’s recent performance, especially inflation.
For all these reasons, the New Economics both has made surprising progress over the past decade and remains vulnerable to reversal.
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"The Toyota Camry, the best-selling car in America, is going hybrid-only." (Yahoo Finance)
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John Oliver and Last Week Tonight dominated ‘Bird of the Century’ competition. (AP News)
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[from] The Washington Post (directly quoted):
A decades-old letter from Osama bin Laden is going viral.
Why? A journalist shared a compilation of TikTok videos of people sharing the letter, in which the late terrorist leader blames the 9/11 attacks on U.S. support for Israel.
The bigger picture: Its spread highlights the hazards of people getting their news on social media — and how media coverage can fan the flames of viral controversy.
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[from] Vox (directly quoted):
This fall, bird flu is surging again. So far in October and November, it’s infected dozens of factory farms largely in the Midwest, including on turkey farms raising animals for Thanksgiving season — resulting in the extermination of 4 million chickens and turkeys in just a month and a half.
I use the word “extermination” deliberately. Although many outlets have written that the birds on farms hit with bird flu are being “euthanized,” the reality of these mass killings is far from the painless end implied by that term.
Last year, I wrote a great deal about the rise of “ventilation shutdown plus” (VSD+), a method being used to mass kill poultry birds on factory farms by sealing off the airflow inside barns and pumping in extreme heat using industrial-scale heaters, so that the animals die of heatstroke over the course of hours.
It is one of the worst forms of cruelty being inflicted on animals in the US food system — the equivalent of roasting animals to death — and it’s been used to kill tens of millions of poultry birds during the current avian flu outbreak.
As of this summer, the most recent period for which data is available, more than 49 million birds, or over 80 percent of the depopulated total, were killed in culls that used VSD+ either alone or in combination with other methods, according to an analysis of USDA data by Gwendolen Reyes-Illg, a veterinary adviser to the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), an animal advocacy nonprofit. These mass killings, or “depopulations,” in the industry’s jargon, are paid for with public dollars through a USDA program that compensates livestock farmers for their losses.
In America’s peer countries, ventilation shutdown has been effectively banned because it’s so inhumane; last year, Danish bioethicist Peter Sandøe told me he was “shocked” by the method’s prevalence in the US and that in the European Union, relying on it would be illegal.
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The Onion goes hard at Gen Z.
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‘PA School's 'Satan Club' Lawsuit Settled For $200K, ACLU Says’ (Patch)
While this might sound dangerous or hokey, depending on where you stand… I would argue this is an important freedom of religion (and freedom of speech) case.
I’ve researched The Satanic Temple and found no danger to society. Quite the opposite. They are often rather community-oriented in their activities.
Check out the “Seven Fundamental Tenets” – Goodhearted, right?
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If it wasn’t already clear… it’s now being talked how “deinfluencing” is clearly just a way for influencers to continue doing what they’ve been doing and get paid while trying to pivot in a shifting social media landscape.
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Inflation continues. (Chartr)
Among the categories that continue to rise:
- Vehicle insurance
- Vehicle maintenance
- Rent
- Cigarettes
- Going to a restaurant for meals
- Hospital services
- Medical care products
- Cereal and baked goods
- Alcohol
- Clothing
- Electricity
- Food for the house
- Buying a new car
What’s easing?
Prices of fruit & veg, eggs/meat/fish/poultry, dairy, gas, used vehicles airfare.
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Directly quoted [from] The New York Times:
Beauty and the bit
A beautiful person is so often a confrontation. Even in silence, symmetrical features announce their presence and elicit a reaction: desire, admiration, curiosity, resentment, belittlement, rage or envy. The response is rarely neutral.
In this way, beautiful people are different from comedians who have to work for a crowd’s attention. Comics choreograph their lines, pauses and gestures to get a laugh. Then they practice, and fail, and practice more. Why would an attractive person toil for a reaction if they don’t have to?
This is why my colleague Jason Zinoman, The Times’s comedy critic, recently chose to disclose a bias of his: He is skeptical of attractive men in comedy. And he isn’t alone. The conventional wisdom is that male comics need to be relatable, not hot, lest their beauty distract from the bit. But that may be changing.
Stand-up stages are crawling with beautiful men. Chris Rock is showing off his abs. Jimmy Fallon smiles boyishly on late night. Trevor Noah and his dimples date actresses. An industry once known for nerdy, affable guys — Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, Jim Gaffigan — is becoming another venue for charmers. One annoyed late night writer complained to his peers: “You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal.”
No one represents this shift better than Matt Rife, a cartoonishly hot man who became famous by posting his comedy on TikTok. The platform’s algorithms, which funnel attention toward people who could be in perfume ads, led to more viral videos. On Wednesday, he made his comedic debut on Netflix, with a special entitled “Natural Selection.”
Rife leans into his sex appeal. He styles his hair like a member of BTS, posts workout clips online and uses a shirtless photo on his website.
But his beauty doesn’t only explain his popularity; it’s become part of his act. In the trailer for “Natural Selection,” he smiles for photos with screaming women and is mock arrested by police officers who, like Zinoman, are skeptical of his mixing of cheekbones with comedy. “Why did the algorithm choose you?” one asks. “I heard he got lip filler,” another replies.
In another video, Rife laments his good fortune: “I can’t even hang myself because my jawline will cut the rope,” he said, adding a curse word.
Like a tyrant, Rife’s beauty rules his comedy. But he’s not a victim — the day after his special was released, it became the No. 1 TV show on Netflix in the U.S. Royalties have a way of taking the sting out of envy.
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‘One Year Later, Survivors of the Club Q Shooting Are Still Healing’ (them)
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Holiday Grief.
‘Grief Around the Holidays: How to Best Support Loved Ones Who’ve Experienced Loss’ (Nice News)
- Extend an open invitation
- Make space for their feelings
- Be Mindful of the Days Leading Up (difficult day anniversaries)
- Understand the Difference Between Grief and Mourning
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‘In death, one cancer patient helps to erase millions in medical debt’ (AP News)
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Don’t freak out…
I think we’ll hear updates on this story and it will end up being less likely…This is obviously going to be a priority.
‘Possible Solar Storms Next Year Could Knock Out Internet For Months’ (Patch)
‘Can strong solar storms take down the internet? Scientist says it's possible’ (Chron)
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"The internet has come of age during a time when the sun has been relatively quiet, and now it's entering a more active time," said Professor Peter Becker of George Mason University. "It's the first time in human history that there's been an intersection of increased solar activity with our dependence on the internet and our global economic dependence on the internet." (Fox Weather)
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::: News of The Weird :::
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‘Manslaughter arrest in death of hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade during game’ (AP News)
Obviously, this should not happen…
Understandably, this led to a criminal investigation.
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Skill crane (aka. “claw machine”) well-known to be rigged was confirmed rigged…and yet it’s pretty clear people will play the game knowing this nonetheless. (Upworthy)
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::: Google Trending Searches This Past Week :::
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Searches for “Taylor Swift Karma lyrics” spiked +1,550% in the past day after Swift changed the lyrics for Travis Kelce in her performance
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Searches for “DIY smokeless fire pit” rose +180% in the past day
So… get ready for news of accidental fires. Hopefully, everyone’s local fire departments are on call for the holidays. Thanks firefighters around the globe!
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Searches for coffee and fatigue hit a record high worldwide in 2023
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Amethyst engagement rings are trendy
Also rings that are “tear drop” shaped and “nature inspired”
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