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“But your favorite bar is under new management, and whether you want to admit it or not, you know damn well what kind of bar they’re making it into. You need to think long and hard about whether you’re okay with that.”

> In light of the ongoing policing situation in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer and how the response to the community protests is highlighting the militarization of US police departments since 9/11, it’s instructive to look at one of the first an

> There has been a lot of burning lately. Last week, wildfires broke out in the Arctic Circle, where temperatures reached almost 90 degrees; they are still roiling northern Sweden, 21 of them.

> Editor's Note: This is one of the most-read leadership articles of 2013. Click here to see the full list. I had an office. Now I don’t.

> Earlier this week, I posted some thoughts on digital minimalism: the idea that using less technology, but using what you do use better, is the key to cultivating meaning in a noisy world. I want to pull on this thread some more.

> I’m writing my annual year-end memo to share thoughts on the huge shifts that are happening in the tech and media industries and the important role BuzzFeed will play in the coming year.

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Heerlijke longread van Mark Leibovich die de Clinton-campagne op de voet volgt. Opvallend ook hoe Hillary de sociologische verschillen blootlegt die het internet, sociale media, smartphones en selfies hebben veroorzaakt. Iets waar ik zelf de laatste tijd ook veel over nadenk.

He said, in a widely watched televised presidential debate, that if he became president, he would put political opponents in cages. That’s dictator talk. But it’s not Mr. Trump’s open contempt for the norms of liberal democracy that made my blood run cold. It was the applause that came after. It is the fact that it’s no longer assured that you automatically lose a presidential debate in which you promise to jail your political rival.

So what could we expect here but more words? His stance on the issues — all issues — is that his stance on the issues is better than his opponent’s. Nothing more, nothing less. How will he fix things? He’ll make them better. Where will the jobs be? Here. Where will the terrorists stay? Far away. What will the economy do? Thrive. Where will Hillary Clinton go? To jail. How will America be? Great. He lacks policies, ideas, strategies, apologies. The only thing he has to offer is the thing he, ever the showman, always had: words.

Beyond the possibilities for leisure, three-day weekends might also be one of the easiest steps we could take to radically reduce our environmental impact—and future-proof our economy.

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was asked on multiple shows Monday morning about whether more damaging tapes will emerge, and she offered the same response. “There is no way for me to know that,” she said.

To think of AirPods as Bluetooth headphones is to miss the point in two key ways. First, they aren’t Bluetooth, or at least not only Bluetooth. Second, they aren’t headphones, or at least not only headphones.

Misschien toch wat overdreven in de boekhandel...

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