Hasnain says:

“He says looking back on it, he should have covered events like the early days of the Tea Party movement differently. At one early Tea Party rally he heard a protestor use the N word, but he decided against writing about it because he didn’t think it represented the broader crowd.

“We used a lot of euphemisms. That was white rage and we should have covered it as white rage, and we didn’t, we covered it as conservative backlash. They were booing John Lewis, for god’s sake,” he said.”

Hasnain says:

“The incident is notable as it appears to be the first public example in the United States of Amazon delivery service partners, small businesses that deliver packages exclusively for Amazon, using their leverage to protest against Amazon—which has been known to enforce strict rules that squeeze productivity out of their delivery drivers, putting drivers and the public at risk. “

Hasnain says:

I’m not sure why Apple keeps hamstringing itself here. A lot of other tech companies are also doing this, to be fair (c.f a 17 year tenured googler leaving due to a bureaucratic mixup related to remote work) but still…

“But Apple realizes that many valuable employees don’t want to be in Silicon Valley, period. Its solution of building new offices in other cities and offering hybrid schedules that grant a day or two a week from home—despite being a reasonable compromise—will still restrict Apple’s talent pool. A sizable portion of workers simply don’t want to be in an office at all.”

Hasnain says:

As someone pointed out this is also interesting because at the end of the day it was about racism and money: one big donor who gave $25M to the school. And Hannah-Jones has already brought in $15M for the new chair at Howard and I’m sure more will come in soon.

“Hannah-Jones said she fought the battle that she wanted to fight, which is being treated equally and to have a vote on her tenure appointment.

“I won that battle. But it’s not my job to heal the University of North Carolina,” Hannah-Jones said. “That’s the job of the people in power who created this situation in the first place.””

Hasnain says:

It would be pretty great to see the 4 day workweek take hold in more places.

“Will Stronge, Director of Research at Autonomy, said: "This study shows that the world’s largest ever trial of a shorter working week in the public sector was by all measures an overwhelming success.”

Hasnain says:

This is from a few years ago, and while I’ve read more stuff on the lead poisoning theory nothing has been this comprehensive or well researched. Great take on sociology, biology, and criminology.

“Put all this together and you have an astonishing body of evidence. We now have studies at the international level, the national level, the state level, the city level, and even the individual level. Groups of children have been followed from the womb to adulthood, and higher childhood blood lead levels are consistently associated with higher adult arrest rates for violent crimes. All of these studies tell the same story: Gasoline lead is responsible for a good share of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.”

Hasnain says:

“Xiang Biao, a professor of social anthropology at Oxford University who focuses on Chinese society, called tangping culture a turning point for China. “Young people feel a kind of pressure that they cannot explain and they feel that promises were broken,” he said. “People realize that material betterment is no longer the single most important source of meaning in life.””

Hasnain says:

This is really scary to read. Goes into the life of a celebrity but this is so much more: indictments of our legal system, approaches to mental health care, family drama, and so much more. There were a lot of things to pick out - horrible treatment from family, being forced to pay for all of this at her own expense, and it was hard to pick just one white to highlight.

“According to Jonathan Martinis, the senior director for law and policy at a center for disability rights at Syracuse University, one of the most dangerous aspects of guardianships is the way that they prevent people from getting their own legal counsel. “The rights at stake in guardianship are analogous to the rights at stake in criminal cases,” Martinis said. “Britney could have been found holding an axe and a severed head, saying ‘I did it,’ and she still would’ve had the right to an attorney. So, under guardianship, you don’t have the same rights as an axe murderer.””

Hasnain says:

Will be interesting to watch how these play out. I for one welcome the changes.

“Now, antitrust staff will need only one commissioner's approval to subpoena information for certain kinds of investigations, including those that involve repeat offenders, technology companies or digital platforms and pharmaceutical companies or hospitals. Cases where staff are seeking information on the Covid-19 pandemic or harms to labor or small businesses will also only need one commissioner’s approval.”

Hasnain says:

Second collapse in a week. And in the Miami case an official on TV was like “this is a third world country thing and doesn’t happen here”…

“Edward Constable said he was in his bedroom getting ready to take a nap when the building nextdoor collapsed, taking part of his home with it.”