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fromFortune
1 week ago

The internet isn't just like real life, a top VC says - it is real life. For a16z, that's not philosophy, it's an investment | Fortune

The internet is real life. And navigating life means navigating the internet. News now exists to summarize things that have already happened online. Music is being restructured by TikTok's 15-second clip format, the way radio once defined the verse-chorus arrangement.
Digital life
Retirement
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Historic Transformation of Retirement

A new model of retirement emphasizes active engagement and personal definition, with many choosing to work post-career.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How Donald Trump's Iran War Is Destabilizing the Gulf

Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, over a week ago, more than one thousand Iranians have reportedly been killed, and Iran has responded by attacking various Gulf states-such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates-which are allied with the U.S. Meanwhile, Israel has also been relentlessly bombing Lebanon, with the intention of disarming or wiping out Hezbollah, a paramilitary group backed by Iran which fired rockets at Israel earlier in the war.
World politics
fromNature
8 months ago

Is collapsing fertility really the end of the world?

"There has been an absolutely incredible drop in fertility - much faster than anyone had anticipated," says Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Public health
fromwww.standard.co.uk
9 months ago

'This can't be a good thing': Kirstie Allsopp slams work-from-home culture after sharing photo of empty Tube

Kirstie Allsopp shared an image of an empty Tube carriage on a weekday morning, warning it can't be a good thing for work-from-home culture.
London politics
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
10 months ago

Why are people freaking out about the birth rate?

The decline in birth rates poses significant challenges for society, including economic instability and increasing inequality.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
10 months ago

Thailand moves to re-criminalise cannabis in blow to $1bn industry

The latest move to restrict cannabis use comes amid wider political turmoil in Thailand. Last week the Bhumjaithai Party withdrew from the government's ruling coalition due to its mishandling of a border conflict with Cambodia.
Cannabis
fromFast Company
10 months ago

'We're on the cusp of more widespread adoption': Laura Shin on Trump, stablecoins, and the global rise of cryptocurrency

I would say we're probably on the cusp of more widespread adoption. The number-one biggest reason is simply that the Trump administration is really embracing crypto.
Cryptocurrency
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