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If we read more slowly, won’t that just mean that we get through less text before succumbing to distraction? I’m afraid that just such a result is immensely likely—unless we do some work to alter our habits. That work can be done, and it’s worth doing;
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain oblivious,” one of the discipline’s influential thinkers, Peggy McIntosh, a researcher at the Wellesley Centers for Women, has written. “White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear and blank checks.”
‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work?
Daniel Bergner
And that leads to Facebook, the singularly worst company in the tech sector ever. Its business model is to strip mine data from your relationships to your friends and family. It does this by showing you addictive, misleading and divisive content to optimise your screen time. (7/)
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