On Television May 29, 2020 CNN has spoken out on behalf of its reporter, who was arrested on live TV, but we must interrogate how the network has also wrung the ordeal for drama.Source: CNN The President has had plenty of success in his pet project to abrade public trust in our country’s newsrooms.…

Listening to the Star’s Peter Edwards talk about Toronto’s tow truck turf wars is fascinating. No one knows organized crime in this city like he does. The kind of reporting few outlets do these days. https://t.co/AqYsqGHHsv — Ben Spurr (@BenSpurr) May 29, 2020 Tweeted by @BenSpurr

Letter from Reykjavík The country didn’t just manage to flatten the curve; it virtually eliminated it. June 1, 2020 Swimmers at Laugardalslaug, a public pool in Reykjavík, which reopened on May 18th, after an eight-week closure. The pool limits occupancy to three hundred and fifty people at a…

What you should know about Black birders. #BlackBirdersWeek #conservation #ChristianCooper #BlackInNature #nature #PoliticalEcology https://t.co/CfiYi78Kew via @ConversationCA — Jacqueline L. Scott, Black Outdoors (@BlackOutdoors1) June 2, 2020 Tweeted by @BlackOutdoors1

ROBYN BECK / Chip Somodevilla / SAUL LOEB / NICHOLAS KAMM / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty A couple of years ago, BuzzFeed asked a former White House official to explain the logic behind some bizarre Trump action. The official responded with one of the master quotes of the Trump era. President…

So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college. Some of them are merely curiosities; others are of national importance, such as whether he understood the nuclear-weapons briefing given to every president. I prefer not to…

Oil companies are famous for approaching hapless farmers and buying drilling rights for their properties for next to nothing. ‍ The farmers don’t realize they are sitting on tens of millions of dollars in oil, so they accept a $50,000 one-time payment. ‍ It feels like a huge win... ‍ Until they…

ALAIN DE BOTTON has become the self-help guru to the British middle-class—a life coach pitched at those who might read The Guardian on an iPad, buy ethical chocolate, and assert an interest in the Booker shortlist. If you’re a certain kind of amateur intellectual with self-improving impulses, it’s…

IS THE VERY IDEA of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical…

Philosophy has earned a reputation as a complicated, inaccessible, and irrelevant pursuit, consigned mostly to old white men in wood-paneled offices. It’s vaguely associated with asking the kinds of big questions—Do we exist? What does life mean? Is there such thing as right or wrong?—that can seem…

Friday was my last day at Amazon: https://t.co/kXYDPdNbs7 [Server’s running a little hot but give it time, it’ll come through.] — Tim Bray (@timbray) May 4, 2020 Tweeted by @timbray

High Park has been entirely closed, fenced in, barricaded and monitored by cops in idling police cars to keep cherry blossom crowds away. The city has failed the people of this city in its Dickensian approach to public space. @shawnmicallef https://t.co/RThM4kAT0J — Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) May…

https://t.co/Q2pedjdAdm — vaneats (@vaneats) May 3, 2020 Tweeted by @vaneats

Annals of Inquiry What felt impossible has become thinkable. The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change as a civilization. May 1, 2020 Possibly, in a few months, we’ll return to some version of the old normal. But this spring won’t be forgotten.Photograph by Antoine…

On the Nova Scotia shootings, and an inhuman crime in a strangely inhuman time: https://t.co/RsbcsszNaK — Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) April 21, 2020 Tweeted by @bruce_arthur

With the end of the month here, millions of Americans are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or mortgage, especially as companies continue to lay off or furlough staff and the number of unemployment claims continues to rise each week. There are already wider impacts due to late and missing rent…

https://t.co/iji5HVu0k0 It's finally out! I wrote for @voxdotcom about how Complex PTSD is actually helping me survive this pandemic, and how what we usually consider to be "mental illness" can now be healthy adaptation. — Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) April 30, 2020 Tweeted by @imontheradio

What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal? https://t.co/gI2wNWu0nO — Joseph Planta (@Planta) April 30, 2020 Tweeted by @Planta

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue https://t.co/gXANBXHdRl using the analogy of grip to describe the interaction between people works well. — Angus Pratt 🇨🇦 (@anguspratt) April 21, 2020 Tweeted by @anguspratt

Yesterday, we flew medical supplies from Shanghai to Iceland. Before landing at KEF, our flight path drew a heart over the hospitals in Reykjavik to show gratitude to our healthcare workers. Takk fyrir, to everyone who’s working hard to keep us all safe💙✈️https://t.co/8Ew7HY8Zhy…

In our collective attempt to flatten the curve, grocery shopping has become a minefield. We are not supposed to leave our homes, yet we have to keep feeding ourselves; as a result, what used to be a comforting annoyance now feels dangerous. Can you touch that cereal box? Why is that person standing…

In my 20s I was obsessed with food but had no idea how to cook. Lots of recipes told me how to do things perfectly but I, an anxious mess, needed permission to try and mess up. I wrote this for past me and everyone else learning to boil water rn https://t.co/Cejb65saVd — Meghan McCarron…

Interview I gave with people back in Vancouver today from Spain -https://t.co/XozxV5HQka — Duane Storey (@DuaneStorey) March 23, 2020 Tweeted by @DuaneStorey

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred face touches https://t.co/F6h03un7X7 — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) March 4, 2020 Tweeted by @knguyen

Amidst the millions of social media users is a sizable chunk well-acquainted with what I’ll call “post-post anxiety.” It’s a dreadful malady, really; with symptoms that come on after you’ve fired off a tweet or pic that is, on second-thought, offensive or unflattering. Once this anxiety has taken…

honored to have reviewed rebecca solnit's new memoir 🌞https://t.co/rasRAtQHFQ — jenny odell (@the_jennitaur) March 7, 2020 Tweeted by @the_jennitaur

Bit of poetry about that dis-intermediation between movement and a world stuck in place called "Railyards Passing By" https://t.co/9luosjGswI pic.twitter.com/dfYkPCxQvu — DaveO (@DaveOstories) March 3, 2020 Tweeted by @DaveOstories

Join the next #Flickr Worldwide Photowalk Day on April 4th! Meet new people, take awesome photos, see your city through a new lens. Find out more: https://t.co/ENvgrE93ha#flickrphotowalk #flickrphotowalkday — Flickr (@Flickr) March 5, 2020 Tweeted by @Flickr

Back to the Future (of Drupal) https://t.co/D0HncC1Mzb #drupal — Ethical Detergent (@e14t) February 24, 2020 Tweeted by @e14t

And today her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate. If she’s right, we are now in a post-economy, post-incumbency, post record-while-in-office era of politics. Her analysis, as…

Cities are human habitat, evolved over thousands of years to be in balance humans. The radical experiment of the past century to reshape the places we live has changed what it means to be human in spooky ways we're struggling to grasp. https://t.co/dotNhkiYim — Strong Towns (@StrongTowns)…

From: Robin Sloan To: the lab Sent: February 2020 An app can be a home-cooked meal Have you heard about this new app called Boop­Snoop? It launched in the first week of Jan­uary 2020, and almost immediately, it was down­loaded by four people in three dif­ferent time zones. In the years since, it has…

Reading @robinsloan's "An app can be a home-cooked meal" got me bouncing around the blogosphere of @ton_zylstra & @rtanglao to write "Tools for home cooking" https://t.co/ERQ8sFWb6b We can build tools for home cooking. But we have to design them that way from the beginning. — Boris Mann (@bmann)…

“Knowing that your neighbourhood is made up of real people elevates the level of trust. Accountability cultivates kindness.” -@chrisdoyle, #nextdoorcanada Country Manager // Learn more on how Nextdoor is cultivating kindness via @globeandmail @LiaGrainger https://t.co/fLUrJXcfmO — Nextdoor…