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Under the legislation, the payments must be distributed by this Friday, January 15. While the IRS said last week that two-thirds of eligible payments have already been sent out, technical glitches and distribution errors have caused delays for many Americans. Some may eventually receive their payment via direct deposit, or in the mail through a debit card or paper check, but many other eligible taxpayers may be forced to claim their payment as a credit on their 2020 tax forms in order to receive the cash. … [Read more...] about IRS stimulus check update: What to know about mailed payments and the Friday deadline

“We live in a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. And so, like, can you imagine trying to have two kids on virtual school in a two-bedroom apartment, and then trying to do work yourself?,” he said in the story, which was posted on the paper’s website this morning. … [Read more...] about Why aspiring NYC mayor Andrew Yang upset New Yorkers with his quip about working from home

You also need tangible demonstrations of trust and devolution of responsibility. For Grey London, the most totemic act was the removal of “sign-offs.” For us, sign-offs became a short hand for everything that we believed was wrong about traditional agency ways of working. Sign-offs are about control, but unfortunately, also disempower and imply that only the creative director’s point of view matters. This leads to a slow, dependent culture, frustrated clients and, most importantly of all, less good work. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways To Create An Open Culture

The pinnacle of their misadventures took place on a cruise to Bermuda. “Bill loved the Marx brothers, so we decided to reenact the stateroom scene from [the Marx Brothers’] A Night at the Opera,” says Ficarra. “We told all of the Mad people to line up outside Bill’s stateroom. Every 30 seconds, there’d be another knock on the door, and two more people would come in, and two more, and two more. We also had housekeeping come in, like the movie, and they were vacuuming the whole time. Room service showed with hardboiled eggs, because that’s something Groucho kept asking for. … [Read more...] about The Ascent Of “Mad”: See 60 Years Of Comic Subversion

It’s already sad that many conservatives appear to be more upset about Donald Trump losing his most-cherished megaphone than they are about how he ultimately employed it. But it’s outright offensive to see the way in which they’re upset. These folks aren’t broadly picking apart the particulars of Twitter’s violent threat policy to argue Trump did not technically violate it. Rather, they’re pretending that Twitter just arbitrarily decided to ban Trump as part of a political witch hunt, and they are very mad about that fabricated reality. … [Read more...] about The dire consequences of Republicans ‘just asking questions’ about whatever doesn’t go their way