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The Liberals Who Can't Quit Lockdown. Lurking among the jubilant americans venturing back out to bars and planning their summer-wedding travel is a different group: liberals who aren’t quite ready to let go of pandemic restrictions. (Emma Green via The Atlantic)
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting. At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize. Four days earlier, he had thrown the company into turmoil by announcing that “societal and political discussions” would no longer be allowed on the company’s internal chat forums. (Casey Newton via The Verge)
Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce. Bill and Melinda Gates, who jointly run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private philanthropic foundation, announced on Monday they will divorce after 27 years of marriage. (Melissa Holzberg via Forbes)
EU Approves Sale of Mealworm for Human Consumption. Frog legs rolled in worm flour could be the next culinary delight for European haute cuisine after the European Union gave its blessing for the first time for an insect food. (Aoife White via Bloomberg)
Florida governor DeSantis suspends all remaining Covid restrictions: 'We are no longer in a state of emergency'. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Monday that immediately suspends the state's remaining Covid-19 public health restrictions. 'I think that's the evidence-based thing to do,' DeSantis said at a Monday press conference. (Amanda Macias via CNBC)
Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more. Twitter Spaces, the company’s new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more broadly. The company announced today it’s making Twitter Spaces available to any account with 600 followers or more, including both iOS and Android users. (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients' Deepest Secrets Online. Jere woke up on the morning of October 24, 2020, expecting what Finnish college students call normi päivä, an ordinary day. It was a Saturday, and he'd slept in. The night before, he had gone drinking by the beach with some friends. (William Ralston via WIRED)
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