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On Fresh Air: “A decade ago, [Casey] Gerald was a rising star, a Yale and Harvard graduate running a celebrated nonprofit.

Why the current tech backlash feels different.

I’ve been listening to podcasts for more than 20 years.

What even is a “podcast” anymore?

Industry Standard Tools: A list of tools of various trades that are “so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses,” compiled “by the people who use them.”

“That sounds like a ‘you’ problem,” is so very often the appropriate response when communicating with a business.

They Ran For President.

“Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment,” writes Brian Goldstone at The New York Times Millions of Americans have full-time jobs but can’t

Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone Rebecca Solnit: “Much dismissiveness about feminism comes from ignorance about how profoundly feminism changed things that were so deeply entrenched, so normalized into invisibility, so ancient and cu…

Lee Meriwether promoting NBC for her new job on the Today Show, shortly after being crowned Miss America 1955. www.tumblr.com/ironsteam…

Do you wear shoes inside your house?

President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. 1975 reddit.com/r/History…_gerald_ford_signs_into_law_an_extension/ Summer in the City.

I was out walking the dog when I got in a nice chat with a neighbor.

The US voted against a UN resolution to replace the standard Mercator Projection map of the world.

1969 interview with Don Rickles by WMAR-TV reporter Susan White.

Rebuilding is brutally expensive in Los Angeles’s burnt-out neighborhoods, so instead homeowners are reviving the lost art of house-moving, transporting historic homes across town to be installed on lots that were recently made vacant by wildfires.

Marco Arment: “If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my ‘side’ considers unacceptable and unforgivable, should I be able to have dinner at their house, shovel their snow, or even greet them outside?”

Columbia House: The First 12 Cost A Penny, But … Columbia House was a great way to get 12 CDs, tapes or records for a penny.

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

Romani-inspired “boho” and medieval European styles merged in 1960s hippie culture, with rock stars like Stevie Nicks, Mama Cass and Janis Joplin leading.

From the comments: “It’s also a palindrome in binary. 1001001” Time Of The Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg, cover Harry Schaare reddit.com/r/CoolSci…_of_the_great_freeze_by_robert_silverberg/ Strange Tales Of Mystery And Terror, January 1933, cover H.

Chris Arnade rides the 22-hour bus trip from Darwin, Australia, to Alice Springs.

Like “spotting a firefly buzzing around a powerful searchlight from thousands of miles away."