Quotes and Stuff

Rock legend deletes cancer announcement after anti-vaxxers attack him on X Sep 7, 2024 at 1:06 PM # PennLive.com ### Rock legend deletes cancer announcement after anti-vaxxers attack him on X Sep 7, 2024 at 1:06 PM [PennLive.com](http://PennLive.com https://apple.news/ArQlVJCiuTJGPw7eMQsDM4Q) It appears in the days since he made the revelation, O’Donnell has received more than prayers and well-wishes. He has also been targeted and attacked on the platform by anti-vaxxers, who are basely blaming COVID-19 vaccines for his cancer.

Protests calling for ‘death to the dictator’ erupt across Iran Dec 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM # The Telegraph ### Protests calling for ‘death to the dictator’ erupt across Iran Dec 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM [The Telegraph](https://apple.news/AqnBCvrExT_K9hfuXq3b-TA) “Mostafa Tajzadeh, the imprisoned Iranian politician and prominent dissident, said: “Now the time has come for all those who want a prosperous, free, and independent Iran to speak with one voice and call for the separation of religious institutions from political institutions, for the clergy to hand power back to the people, and to return to their traditional base in the seminaries. ” Excerpt From “Protests calling for ‘death to the dictator’ erupt across Iran” Akhtar Makoii The Telegraph https://apple.news/AqnBCvrExT_K9hfuXq3b-TA This material may be protected by copyright.

Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood Dec 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM # The Wall Street Journal ### Inside the Creation of Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Freaking Out Hollywood Dec 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/A26a1J8gVTeSdk0nHn_SdVg) Van der Velden has been taken aback by the severity of the anti-Tilly sentiment in an industry with which she’s often felt a kinship. She moved to the United Kingdom at 14, leaving her home on the Dutch island of Curaçao with dreams of becoming an actress. The child of a Dutch executive and an artist, she enrolled at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, whose famous alumni include Lily James and Daisy Ridley. 

The World’s Longest Flight Just Took Off, and My Spine Hurts Thinking About It Dec 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM # VICE ### The World’s Longest Flight Just Took Off, and My Spine Hurts Thinking About It Dec 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM [VICE](https://apple.news/An1wBwFgXRkGQUH1c7hRwZg) Starting this week, the route will run every Tuesday and Thursday. China Eastern hasn’t come out and said why they’re introducing a flight so long. My theory of it being a part of a nationalistic d—k measuring contest is probably the real reason that no one will ever speak of.

How crews keep the aging Hudson River rail tunnels operating Dec 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM # New Jersey Monitor ### How crews keep the aging Hudson River rail tunnels operating Dec 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM [New Jersey Monitor](https://apple.news/AQwqk7AKySsCiDrmX3j4O3g) “We have, and continue to, decline comment on the President’s remarks from October,” Sigmund said.

Target was one of America’s most beloved brands. How did things go so wrong? Nov 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM # Bloomberg Businessweek ### Target was one of America’s most beloved brands. How did things go so wrong? Nov 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM [Bloomberg Businessweek](https://apple.news/AAjYOECC7QlOJCpSvltrstQ) In 2008, Ulrich stepped down, though not because he wanted to go. He’d reached the company’s mandatory retirement age of 65. He believed he was leaving Target in good hands with Gregg Steinhafel, a 29-year company veteran and his handpicked successor. He’s since had a change of heart. “I thought the guy was going to do a hell of a good job,” Ulrich says. “It’s just one of those weird things, probably my worst decision in my goddamn life.” (Steinhafel didn’t respond to requests for comment.)

Terry Gilliam Confronts His Most Absurd Legacy: 'I'm Responsible for QAnon' Nov 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM # Variety ### Terry Gilliam Confronts His Most Absurd Legacy: 'I'm Responsible for QAnon' Nov 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM [Variety](https://apple.news/ARjzAP3MuQtagShDfpYzZLg) "The world hasn't changed that much, but people have," he sighs. Referring to anti-vaccine rhetoric, he adds, "It drives me mad. I grew up during polio -- vaccines stopped it. Now polio's rising in Gaza. Measles in Texas. Then there's graphene -- conspiracies about Bill Gates putting metal in our bodies to control us. It's insane."

Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing Nov 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM # Vox ### Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing Nov 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM [Vox](https://apple.news/ANk2CpYrPRz-7Yrz1nmhwhw) Indeed, declining birth rates are another problem. Recent research has found clear links between housing costs, housing size, and birth patterns. Not only is a lack of suitable housing steering families out of cities, it’s contributing to some people choosing not to have kids at all.

Revisit history’s sexiest retail destinations as we explore why design can make us shop until we drop Nov 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM # ELLE Decoration UK ### Revisit history’s sexiest retail destinations as we explore why design can make us shop until we drop Nov 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM [ELLE Decoration UK](https://apple.news/AqBxQG5zGQI2L7qLylPspEg) In our modern digital age, is there a store with the cultural impact to acquire a similar mythological status in the future? That remains to be seen. Many brands now choose to cultivate their fanbase online, with the occasional pop-up bringing that frenetic energy to life in the real world. Still, Portas argues, there needs to be a space for bricks-and-mortar. ‘When done right, a shop is not just a place to buy – it’s a place to belong,’ she says. ‘Retail isn’t just about transactions; it’s about energy, movement, emotion. It’s bigger than the sum of its parts.’

Scientists found a way to reverse kidney damage—is a cure next? Nov 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM # National Geographic ### Scientists found a way to reverse kidney damage—is a cure next? Nov 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM [National Geographic](https://apple.news/AdOdbxi3GRMWOILirnWHcxA) In 2024, a Phase 3 clinical trial found that semaglutide was highly effective at preventing end-stage kidney failure and deaths from cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetic CKD. This trial was ended early for efficacy, as the rate of kidney failure and death was so much lower in the group that received semaglutide it was no longer considered ethical to continue giving patients a placebo.

What is Gen Z supposed to do when all the entry-level jobs are gone? Nov 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM # New York Magazine ### What is Gen Z supposed to do when all the entry-level jobs are gone? Nov 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM [New York Magazine](https://apple.news/A6Ax0m-c4SnSNoh_7hXYxAA) When Bryce Harris was in the eighth grade, he built his mom a computer using only YouTube and parts he bought at a local computer store. In 2024, he was among the first students at the University of Texas at Austin to graduate with a degree in informatics, the study of computational systems. Harris went straight to work for Microsoft, where he was an AI product manager, building and implementing AI agents for small businesses. Last spring, less than a year into the job, Microsoft laid off Harris, one of roughly 15,000 employees the company has axed this year. Harris didn’t blame AI for the layoff, but I asked him whether, as a Gen-Zer with frontline experience of AI’s integration into the labor market, he had ever experienced automation anxiety. “I’m an optimistic person,” he told me. “I try to stay away from that anxiety stuff. And as a builder, as an automator, I built the agents and I built those systems that can help, you know, redistribute those jobs.” Part of Harris’s job, he explained, was to provide companies with a plan to reabsorb employees whose jobs had been automated. I asked Harris whether the companies have adopted those plans. “I wouldn’t say I’ve seen it, but I’ve created programs that would have helped do that. Did the companies listen to what I advised? Well, that’s another thing.”

Boomers are passing down fortunes — and way too much stuff Nov 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM # Bloomberg Businessweek ### Boomers are passing down fortunes — and way too much stuff Nov 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM [Bloomberg Businessweek](https://apple.news/A880ZrgDNSwmj94QpANNqJQ) “We’re sort of like the gay uncles that come in and say, ‘No, you really don’t need that,’ ” says Cole Burden of SimplifyNYC, a company he started in 2019 with his husband, Caleb Dicke, to focus on what they call “generational decluttering.” They and others like them zero in on three things: getting rid of stuff, providing organizational tools and cleaning homes. “We really are facilitating the relationship between one generation and the next,” Burden explains.

Francis Crick — the last of the lone scientific geniuses Nov 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM # The Times of London ### Francis Crick — the last of the lone scientific geniuses Nov 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM [The Times of London](https://apple.news/AEegF64TaQRqmYNeQCZpSVg) Crick, who died in 2004 at the age of 88, and Watson did not make their breakthrough alone. Rosalind Franklin, a gifted x-ray crystallographer, also played a part. The story is well known: data from her lab at King’s College London — shown to Watson and Crick without her full knowledge — helped them to refine their double helix model. Franklin, who was 37 when she died of ovarian cancer in 1958, has since become an emblem of women’s overlooked contributions to science. The author shows that her relationship with Crick was, in fact, cordial, even affectionate: in 1957, after surgery for the disease that would soon kill her, she went to convalesce at his family’s home in Cambridge. The relationship, Cobb shows, was more collaborative than legend allows.

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Nov 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM # The New Yorker ### What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Nov 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM [The New Yorker](https://apple.news/ARLXLkIw2QGqGMP5wZh9iag) The suicide gender gap, for another example, is actually narrowing—in 2007, it was five to one—and young women attempt suicide more often than young men do. Women’s wages over all are still seventeen per cent lower than men’s, partly because women are vastly overrepresented in many relatively underpaid provinces of health care and social services. And this same asymmetry helps to explain the unemployment gender gap among younger adults: health care is the source of most labor-force growth in the U.S., and it’s women who are taking most of those jobs. Even so, unemployment among Black women is up, partly because they were overrepresented in federal agencies that were decimated by DOGE, and labor-force participation among women with children is down, possibly because of rising child-care costs and the kinds of strict return-to-office policies endorsed by the Trump Administration.

They Tear Down Walls and Hire Architects to Make Room for Their Lego Worlds Nov 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM # The Wall Street Journal ### They Tear Down Walls and Hire Architects to Make Room for Their Lego Worlds Nov 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/AdZTfIH1qSH-MhhaNmih18w) North, an executive at a mortgage company, says she’s spent $100,000 to build her Lego world and the space to display it. That excludes costs for the large Lego mosaic she commissioned for outside the basement room that’s become her Lego lair.

Are solid-state batteries about to kill combustion engines for good? Miracle battery tech gathers pace Oct 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM # BBC Top Gear Magazine ### Are solid-state batteries about to kill combustion engines for good? Miracle battery tech gathers pace Oct 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM [BBC Top Gear Magazine](https://apple.news/ALyZNGmLjTYyqid6yfx1zbQ) It's striking that Rimac Technology, which is linked to the VW Group via the Bugatti-Rimac car company, has one cell supplier in ProLogium, and the larger VW Group has another in QuantumScape. Clearly there's no individual technology likely to dominate, and as QuantumScape points out, if they get the prices down none of these new cell makers will have the capacity to supply the number of new cars that need them, so they'll probably coexist.

‘It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency Oct 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM # The Washington Post ### ‘It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency Oct 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM [The Washington Post](https://apple.news/AxT2VKHCfQbqecgDZhCLOLg) When Lauryn Jiles, 26, entered the workforce in 2022, every time colleagues treated something like an emergency, she followed suit. Jiles, who has worked as a commerce writer and in social media management, described how projects would be lined up, only to pivot last-minute; in another role, corporate layoffs caused her workload to double. “I started developing a stress rash on my skin,” said Jiles, who is based in South Carolina. “That’s when I was like, yeah, I’m not going to do this anymore.”