“It was liberating, for those of us who had so often seen our striving met with raised eyebrows and condescension, to enjoy a brief era in which female ambition was cool and respected. It was predictable, of course, that the cultural tides would turn. They began turning, I believe, the moment ambitious women started getting called ‘girlbosses.’” https://jill.substack.com/p/an-ambitious-woman-after-the-end

I feel like the Weather app needs another term for this besides “breezy”

…I guess I don’t know what I was expecting

There’s no better way to start your morning than with your RSS reader just absolutely spilling the tea

Do the fact checkers at the Guardian actually…visit their own links?

May we all be able to exercise the level of restraint in our lives that this virologist does on Twitter

I think a lot of people correctly latched onto masking at the beginning of the pandemic as important for stopping the spread of severe disease (which it was) but then refused to shift their understanding post-vaccine toward it being important for individual protection for those wanting to avoid infection (as it is now), the implications of which become more untenable by the day.

This machine kills displacement

I remain skeptical that 256 million Americans have long COVID