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In addition, it is easy to find the implicit bigotry and violence that eventually caused Facebook to ban movements like QAnon. For example, QAnon’s version of the “blood libel” theory—the centuries-old false conspiracy theory that Jewish people murder Christians and use their blood for rituals—has spread widely on the platform. Thousands of posts also use QAnon hashtags and promote the false claim that global elites are literally eating children. … [Read more...] about The rise, fall, and future of Parler, the right-wing site that Amazon shut down

Anyway, wrote Chronodm, a California-based editor, storming had other problems: “Given Stormfront and The Daily Stormer, not to mention QAnon’s repeated use of ‘storm”,’ I really don’t think it’s a neutral choice.” Someone dropped in a link to a New Yorker essay by Jill Lepore, who was also shaken by the Nazi and QAnon links. “So one good idea,” she wrote, “would be never, ever to call the Sixth of January ‘the Storming of the Capitol.'” … [Read more...] about As a mob attacked the Capitol, Wikipedia struggled to find the right words

Easter eggs are another ritual that is part of MailChimp’s creative culture, and they have often bridged the gap between fun and fundamentals. In the tech world, an Easter egg is a practical joke or a hidden bit of content that gets included in the finished product, and they are so named because users have to search for them. Kurzius was the creator of the first Easter egg, a popup preview window that uses a monkey’s arm to show how a draft email will look before it’s sent. If you keep stretching the email–far beyond the dimensions of a normal computer monitor–the monkey’s arm will eventually pop out of the socket. Once you’re logged into your MailChimp account, you can launch the game Asteroid by typing “boredom,” into the search bar. A triangular spaceship will appear, and you can fly around the screen blowing things up with a photon blaster. … [Read more...] about Creative Cultures: MailChimp Grants Employees “Permission To Be Creative”

We did that with energy when I was governor of Colorado, and I can tell you it isn’t simple. Energy policy isn’t just about electricity. It’s about how homes are built, how they generate power and feed it into the grid, and how the transportation, industrial, and agriculture sectors evolve. It’s about regulations, trade rules, government purchases, and funding for research for innovation. Coordination and collaboration among agencies and different levels of government is crucial. … [Read more...] about Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has before

The company also wants to make sure each Tough Mudder event has fresh and creative obstacles so nothing gets stale. Patterson, along with a team that includes Nigel Thomas, who was in the British Special Forces for more than a decade, helps design new obstacles year-round. Part of the inspiration for new challenges comes from basic human fears, Patterson says. “We have a big matrix of emotional states—happy, angry, tired, afraid—and we try to plot our obstacles along that.” For instance, Patterson points out, they might not have any obstacles based on a primal fear of the dark, and so they’ll figure out an obstacle that puts Tough Mudder participants in a pitch-black space. … [Read more...] about Where Getting a Mild Electrical Shock Is Part of Your Job: How Tough Mudder Rewards Achievement Outside The Office