Joseph Matheny Step Chickens and the Rise of TikTok ‘Cults’verified_publisher The New York Times - Taylor LorenzLast week, a new name broke into Apple’s most-downloaded social networking apps. Among the usual suspects of Instagram, Facebook and TikTok appeared an app called Stepchickens, with a cryptic blue selfie...
Joseph MathenyThe Arts Milton Moses Ginsberg, Unconventional Filmmaker, Dies at 85verified_publisher The New York Times - Richard SandomirMilton Moses Ginsberg, who directed two notably ambitious and eccentric films before falling into obscurity, one about the meltdown of a psychiatrist and the other about a press aide in a Nixon-like administration...
Joseph MathenyVietnam War How One Epic Document Exposed the Secrets of the Vietnam Warverified_publisher The New York Times - Elizabeth BeckerThis article is part of a special report on the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Brandishing a captured Chinese machine gun, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara appeared at a televised news...
Joseph MathenyTechnology Flying Car Makers Want to Build ‘Uber Meets Tesla in the Air’verified_publisher The New York Times - Cade Metz and Erin GriffithIt was sleek, cone-shaped, a little confusing — like something Hollywood would give a sci-fi villain for a quick getaway. It wasn’t a helicopter. And it wasn’t an airplane. It was a cross between the with...
Joseph MathenyPandemics Forget Going Back to the Office—People Are Just Quitting Instead The Wall Street Journal. - Lauren WeberAs the pandemic clouds lift, the percentage of Americans leaving employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in more than two decades The shift by workers into new jobs and careers is prompting...
