now that pocket is gone, i've switched over to instapaper, which is a similar read later app. i don't find it as easy to use, but i'm sure i'll get used to it soon. i actually felt bad about migrating over all my unread articles over between the platforms, so i spent a little more time this month reading my articles. a little more about that. i had nearly 4600 articles saved in pocket!!! i do have a number of those read and favorited waiting to be archived once i put them into my blog, but that's not more than a handful. i also have maybe a few hundred archived articles (because only until recently did i archive rather than delete articles of note). and i have a couple dozen read but hanging out unarchived since they're recipes or travel things i wanted to come back to. but yeah... of that 4600, i'm pretty sure a good number over 4000 were really and truly unread. =\
flight home, so movies! also, much more reading this month since we had guests in boston (so no tv at night), and I went back to my parents' for a week plus.
f1, past lives [2023], get out [2017], beyond zero [2020]
Norman doidge - the brain that changes itself: stories of personal triumph groom the frontiers of brain science, Rita Golden gelman - tales from a female nomad: Living at large in the world
the atlantic - The New Sun Worship
vox - Student loans are about to get worse
vox - The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias
axios - Prison debt is crushing Black women, advocates say
the atlantic - My Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special
vox - The US government’s war on wildlife, explained in 3 charts
sf gate - If you use this word, you’re probably not from California
nyt - For the Future of Water Conservation, Look to ... Los Angeles?
npr - Have all girls or all boys? Study suggests the odds aren't 50/50
the atlantic - That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
wsj - Inside the Shadowy, Lucrative Business of 'Superfake' Luxery Handbags
usa today - Come for the hot dogs, stay for the gold bars: How Costco hooks shoppers
the guardian - ‘Do you have a family?’: midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis
the guardian - Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
sydney morning herald - ‘Nice girls’ and Uber: Why the rating system is a gender trap
business insider - What happens when you let employees pick how much they want to be paid? This company decided to find out.
quartz - The myth of your phone's airplane mode
honestly, not against this. some people (my mother included) have very poor phone etiquette (why always speakerphone?!) and already bug the shit out of me. i would *die* if i was trapped next to someone like this on a plane.
the atlantic - The Myth of the Gen Z Red Wave
"Another distinct possibility is that, going forward, Gen Z will vote
for whichever party is not currently in office. Gen Z is a uniquely
pessimistic generation... If
young people’s attitudes persist as they get older, Gen Z might never
be pleased with how things are going in the country. They’ll want to
“vote the bastards out” in the next election no matter which party is in
power. Compared with the idea of a new and persistent conservatism in
young voters, a generalized pessimism bodes better for the Democrats in
2026 or 2028. But if Democrats regain power, Gen Z might turn on them
once again, repeating the cycle in an endless loop of political
dissatisfaction."
