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This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

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The shock itself is shocking. Shouldn’t we have been more prepared? Hasn’t culture been drenched in catastrophe porn for decades? The bomb. The breakdown. The fallout. The senseless armies of shambling corpses, all the nightmares of dead generations sliding out of our screens. For more than a decade, young and young-ish people have been living in anticipatory grief for everything we know. But somehow, this is different. The idea of imminent annihilating catastrophe has been part of the collective unconscious for as long as we've had one. From the end…

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The Covid-19 Pandemic Aggravates Disputes Around Gig Work

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The rapidly spreading novel coronavirus is supercharging a debate about the treatment of gig workers. The relief bill signed Friday by President Trump will provide a short-term lifeline. But some workers for companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Amazon worry the help won’t come soon enough. Today, many gig workers are considered independent contractors, not entitled to workers’ compensation, health care benefits, or sick pay. Because their employers don't pay into unemployment insurance, the workers haven’t been able to obtain those benefits either. Many app-based companies have established…

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This Is Why Ofcom Is Recommending You Give The Microwave A Rest During Lockdown

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The year is 2020. After watching parts of the planet burn and the arrival of a global pandemic, just to top it all off, your internet stops working. Will the atrocities never end? As an estimated one-third of the global population is forced to stay at home and wait out the outbreak, the comfort blankets of streaming services are placing “unprecedented” pressure on internet providers. Online entertainment services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix have reported that they’re reducing the streaming quality of programs to try and maintain the service as…

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What The ‘Gossip Girl’ Characters Would Be Doing During Quarantine | Betches

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With coronavirus ruining all of my springtime plans, I’ve officially reached my limit on self-entertainment. A girl can only buy so many new bags and eat so much caviar in one day, especially when my private pilot refuses to fly me to France. People are just so rude these days. Anyway, in order to get myself through this depressing time, I’m turning to Manhattan’s elite because if anyone’s wreaking havoc during this quarantine, it’s going to be them. Being hot and wealthy is just predictable. Still, what our favorites lack…

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“I Pulled in a Rest Area. I Saw Two Girls About 7 or 8 Climb in a Pick-up. Mom Ran Towards Me Waving Her Hands for Me to Stop”: Truck Driver Touched By Strangers Kindness During Hard Times

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ShareTweetPin “Gonna take me longer to post this, cause I can’t voice text it, not with this lump in my throat… Coming back from St. Louis this afternoon, pulled off in a rest area to take a break. I noticed a pick-up pulled in and parked at the end of the lot. As I climbed back in my semi to leave, I noticed two girls, I’d say around the age of 7-8 years old, climb in the back of the pick-up and pull out two cardboard signs they made. I…

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WTF Do We Do Now?: Weekly Horoscopes March 30th-April 3rd | Betches

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Mars moves into Aquarius this week as we all move into the “I’m gonna get into embroidery” phase of our quarantine. How fitting. Despite the global pandemic, Mars in Aquarius is bringing some can-do energy to this “oh sh*t” world and leaving us a lot more optimistic about what is to come. Well, some of us. For like, one second. In the morning. Before we are hit with the crushing realization of what’s going on in the world. Anyway. Taurus Mars in Aquarius has turned you eager to start an…

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Olympian Stood on a Highway and Wanted to End It All, But God Stepped In

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ShareTweetPin By Billy Hallowell J’Den Cox has won wrestling matches at the highest levels, including a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games — but he believes the battles he wrestles with himself often usher in the greatest victories. Cox, 24, is a three time NCAA Division 1 wrestling champion, and an Olympic bronze medalist who also won 4 state titles while in high school, amassing only three losses in that time-frame. READ ALSO: Here’s Your Chance To Help Create New Faith And Family Entertainment He also won gold medals…

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New York neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins dies from complications of Covid-19

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(CNN)Dr. James T. Goodrich, the neurosurgeon who allowed CNN inside a remarkable operation to separate twins Jadon and Anias McDonald, died on Monday after complications related to Covid-19, according to the hospital where he worked. The hospital called Goodrich a pioneer in the field of helping children with complex neurological conditions; he developed a multi-stage approach for separating craniopagus twins, like Jadon and Anias McDonald, who were fused at the brain and skull. Goodrich was thrust into the spotlight in 2004 when he operated on Carl and Clarence Aguirre, twins…

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tests ephemeral Fleets

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Twitter tries out its own version of the popular Stories format, a court orders Otto’s founder to pay a big fine to Google and electric skateboard company Boosted makes cuts. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 5, 2020. 1. Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called ‘Fleets,’ which disappear after 24 hours Twitter is testing a new sharing format called “Fleets,” starting in Brazil, which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. Unlike Tweets, Twitter’s new Fleets can’t receive Likes, Replies…

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Coda CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the future of the document

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Productivity tools have been a white-hot space, with new startups seeming to nab funding on a daily basis. Coda has been one of the more impactful productivity tools, pitching a richer and deeper collaborative document builder. The startup has picked up $60 million in funding from top investors like NEA, General Catalyst, Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins. I recently spoke to CEO Shishir Mehrotra about how his startup has aimed to rethink the document. Below is a quick chunk of my interview, which has been edited for length and clarity.…

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Woman Gets Accused of Being A Hoarder For Buying $1,100 Of Groceries, Explains That Shes Actually Buying For 6 Families

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The authorities have already announced—there’s no shortage of food. Yet the panic buyers can’t keep themselves from stripping the shelves of grocery stores and hoarding obscene amounts of toilet paper and canned goods in their homes. This unprecedented buying has left many vulnerable people, such as the elderly, disabled, and healthcare workers without much-needed items. While many of those who understand the problem have already started to give snarky looks to the seemingly insensitive people at the stores, there’s also another side to the story. During the time of crisis,…

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How child care startups in the U.S. are helping families cope with the COVID-19 crisis

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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of billions of people around the world. For many parents with young children in the United States, shelter-in-place orders implemented in different areas over the past few weeks mean they now spend each day balancing work with taking care of their families. For child care providers, a vital but often under-appreciated part of the American economy, the crisis means dealing with economic uncertainty, but also adapting to serve new roles, including providing care for essential workers. Child care startups, including home-based daycare networks,…

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