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9 devastating takeaways from NYT’s massive report on Amazon workers during the pandemic

Interviews amazonyorktimes Those pee-bottle stories were just a whiff of how Amazon workers are treated. A blockbuster New York Times exposé, published on Tuesday morning, delves deep into many of the persistent problems plaguing Amazon’s workers, on multiple fronts, with a focus on how those problems reached a fever pitch during the pandemic. To report the story, journalists Jodi...

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Three years after Kate Spade’s tragic death, her best friend is keeping her legacy alive

What happened to kate spade When Kate Spade died by suicide in 2018, people around the world mourned the loss of the designer, who’d become famous through her eponymous brand. Spade sold her namesake company in 2006, but in the years before her death, she’d launched another label, Frances Valentine, that expressed her quirky, ebullient aesthetic. Today, Frances Valentine...

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How to change your personality, according to science

How to change your personality We live in a world that celebrates “authenticity” and encourages us to “just be ourselves.” However, recent scientific research estimates that around 60% of people would not just like to change their personality, but are actively working on it. To be sure, some may feel deeply offended by the notion that their character could do with a...

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You’re about see a lot more ads in video games

Advertising in games There’s nothing the video game world loves more than a good argument, and the rumored rise in interest in in-game ads on the PlayStation (and maybe Xbox) could be the industry’s next tempest in a teapot. Sony is reportedly working on a plan to put ads into titles on its platform, borrowing heavily from the...

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The Oldest English Swear Words, Visualized

What was the first cuss word Sometimes, in the dead of night, I will writhe in the dark and claw at the sheets, tormented by a single, seemingly unanswerable question: “In what Year of our Lord did someone first ask out loud, ‘Who farted?'” It appears I am not the only one. Lapham’s Quarterly—the literary magazine established in 2007...

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