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It's been fun, but we'll now focus our company social communications on other platforms like Mastodon () and Instagram (medium). PLEASE NOTE: We will no longer update this account. Looking forward to continuing the conversation!
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"Geriatric millennials" (born between 1980 and 1985) are best positioned to lead teams that will thrive in the hybrid workplace," writes @ericadhawan .
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"My body was doing things I never thought would be possible and were it not for the joy of the experience, I might have cried." — @rgay
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We are excited to announce a new partnership with @kaepernickpub and to welcome @kaepernick7 as the newest member on our Board of Directors. Read the full statement here:
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“Who you are and who you want to be has nothing to do with gender, sexuality, body type, race, or age” @mileycyrus
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In a small room at a private resort, a technology expert fielded questions from the ultra-wealthy—not about what to invest in next. But about how they could survive the end of the world.
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“We owe our children better than this. We owe ourselves better than this.” by Hillary Clinton
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"People are hurting and have been hurting for far too long. Yet, no one’s been listening. We have been pretending that we have been making progress in our country while people have been dying in the dark." @AndrewYang
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No one at Twitter will tell Satan—or an account acting as him—why he has been "shadow banned." His story illustrates the increasing collateral damage from Twitter’s high-minded project to reinvent itself as a safer and healthier platform.
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We've made updates to our Partner Program to better balance incentives. Plus: preventing fraud, responding to AI-generated content, and expanding to more countries.
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"Medium deserves tremendous respect for building an open platform that’s not polluted by anger and disinformation. I find myself blessed and grateful for that environment." -- @gassee on how he approaches using Medium to share decades of business wisdom
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We're hosting a dedicated hour of writing over at in a few minutes (12–1pm EDT/9–10am PDT/6–7pm CEST), join us for a dedicated hour to write, with no distractions. More info:
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#9 : "What Donald Trump is attempting to do has a name: coup d’état. Poorly organized though it is, it is not bound to fail. It must be made to fail." — @TimothyDSnyder
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We’re hosting a writing hour for the next hour or so, just a dedicated Zoom room for writing remotely but collectively, with gentle tunes. Join the room here:
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How an ER doctor who was working in a hospital less than a mile from the World Trade Center on 9/11 used his experiences that day to develop training tools for healthcare workers around effective/empathetic communication with patients:
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Have some writing you've been meaning to get to? Join us at noon ET for Writing Hour, more info here:
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A reading list on AI from @BarackObama : "I wanted to share some of the books, articles, and podcasts that have helped shape my perspective over the past year."
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Unlike past pandemics, there are hundreds of thousands of people who've never fully recovered from COVID. @tarahaelle will be exploring the stories and struggles of those with long COVID in a new publication on Medium
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We've changed our policy on AI training @Medium . The default answer is now: No. As @tonystubblebine writes: "AI companies have leached value from writers in order to spam Internet readers."
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Meghan Markle has always been an outsider due to her race—she was never meant to exist in the Royal Family in the first place. (via @zoramag )
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Starting in a few minutes over at , join us for a dedicated hour to write, with no distractions
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#DearInternet , remember us? Well, we remember you...
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How one biology professor uses Medium to reach a broad audience with his research and ideas: An interview with @bstockwell
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“Thank you” by Barack Obama
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Kamala Harris just became the first woman, the first Black woman, and the first Indian-American woman to be elected vice president of the United States.
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"Brian Kemp is showing the U.S., and anyone thinking about running in 2020, that as long as you’re ruthless enough you can still cheat your way to a win in America. Even if people watch you do it," writes @AlexWhitcomb .
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What we'll look like in 100 years, as imagined by a handful of illustrators
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We are mourning the loss of Tess Rothstein, a beloved Medium alum, who was killed in a bike accident yesterday in SF. Tess was courageously curious and open-hearted, and we feel lucky to have worked with her. Our deepest condolences to her family.
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We understand some are having *feelings* about this title. Taking votes for a new one:
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"What is the matter with us? Why do we need to personally be at risk to care about risk to others?" asks @ASlavitt .
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What we'll look like in 100 years, as imagined by a handful of illustrators
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Some jobs are bad. Some jobs are terrible. And then there are the jobs that are so unbelievably awful that it demands a noteworthy exit. These are the stories of those jobs, and those resignations.
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Introducing Series, a new way to create and read stories on Medium. Exclusively on our app, starting today.
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"As a society, we really don’t mind if women suffer, physically or mentally, as long as it makes things easier for men," writes Gabrielle Blair
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“The Event.” That’s what they call the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or cyberattack that they believe is coming.
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A developmental psychologist built a database containing 600 variables on the behavioral and psychological development of every known serial killer since the 15th century. She says it can predict would-be serial killers. In fact, it may already have.
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Get a good night's sleep—quickly
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Building a machine with the cognitive abilities we typically ascribe to human beings is the holy grail of computer science. This small startup in New Zealand is confident they'll be the first ones to pull it off.
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Rockets to Mars, digitized consciousness, underground bunkers—these are all methods of separating themselves from the broader population. Of survival for them, and not for us. And it only gets weirder from there.
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Introducing #UnrulyBodies — a new pop-up magazine brought to life by @RGay on what it means to live in a human body today. We’ll be releasing new essays every Tuesday in April from this amazing set of writers.
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The former magazine editor who spent weeks coordinating—then printing—an entire issue about quitting your job, just so she could look her boss in the eye and quit her job.
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1/ This is the story of the monumental legal effort underway to hold pharmaceutical companies—and drug distributors—responsible for the opioid epidemic.
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"For as long as I can remember, my polling stations have been full of retired Black women working the polls, trying to help preserve what little democracy we have left."
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1/ We’re proud to launch Momentum, a new Medium blog that will amplify the voices dedicated to dismantling anti-Black racism. Read more from lead editors Tracey Ford, @AdrienneWrites , and @JadaGomez :
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Today is an opportunity to reflect on what you stand for -- and against. #MakeTheInternetSmartAgain
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1/ Around the world, people are adjusting to their new "normal"—whatever that means. From an ER physician diagnosed with #Covid19 , to an Italian monastery providing live updates from quarantine, these are the stories of life during a global pandemic.
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Its mission was planned to last only 90 days. 14 years later, it was still transmitting data from Mars. So long, Opportunity Rover. You truly were the little robot that could.
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It's hard to overstate how important the movie 'Contact' was in inspiring a generation of women interested in STEM, writes Shannon Stirone.
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“Reflections on Meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton, and the…” by @deray
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"Little Lili has been alive for less than a week and is already the subject of undue scrutiny, much like her mother, Meghan," writes @LTintheCity .
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"People like McCain love guns more than they love other people. You know what? It’s even lamer than that. They care more about being SEEN with guns than they care about other people. They use the blood on their hands as cheek blush," @DrewMagary writes.
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The former EMT who quit by driving his boss to a restaurant in the desert, and leaving him there.
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“How Russian & Alt-Right Twitter Accounts Worked Together to Skew the Narrative About Berkeley” by @RVAwonk
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"Do not let them take away your power. Don’t let them take away your democracy." Read the full transcript of @BarackObama 's #DemConvention remarks:
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"The economy doesn’t come back until the death toll slows. It won’t matter how many cable TV pundits you throw at this," writes @ASlavitt .
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"There’s no luxury or service Trump isn’t willing to sacrifice you for." - @ASlavitt
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“How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour” by @ossia
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9/ And that leads us to today. Sharing, as we once knew it, is dead. But tech companies have cleverly rebranded it to juice whatever profit the ever-changing concept has left. Read more about it in @susie_c ’s eulogy for the sharing economy.
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It was supposed to be just a small experiment; a chance to draw some attention to what seemed like a sketchy content farm. He didn’t anticipate how aggressively the internet would organize its outrage
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“The Blind Hatred Of Hillary Clinton” by @AhmedBaba_
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The former education worker who couldn’t afford to quit dramatically, and instead plotted carefully and meticulously for her window to leave.
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1/ In 2017, a teacher at a Merced, CA high school was sexually harassed by the school’s basketball coach. What happened next highlights a key question of the #MeToo era: what does the movement look like in small-town USA—and can it succeed?
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"I suspect as 2020 approaches, we will watch as supposedly progressive male voters explain why whatever women are running for president are somehow lacking." @JessicaValenti on the sexism problem most male voters still have.
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It's hard to overstate how important the movie 'Contact' was in inspiring a generation of women interested in STEM, writes @shannonmstirone
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We believe good ideas should be rewarded. So today we're excited to share a major update for writers on Medium.
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"Done right, vaccines end pandemics. Done wrong, pandemics end vaccines." @aslavitt with a vaccine reality check:
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This era is doing something to our mental health, and while sometimes friends will reach out for help, they may do so quietly enough that you can miss it. Listen closely.
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“Donald Trump Is Accomplishing Russia’s Goals While Screaming ‘America First’” by @AhmedBaba_
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8/ Sharing didn’t deliver broad financial stability—it increased contract labor, pushing down already low wages for freelancers and employees alike.
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3/ Though China seems to be "flattening the curve," their new normal is anything but. Ting Zhang shares what it's like to live there right now:
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. @JessicaValenti on the one piece of advice young women need
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. @aslavitt is feeling hopeful about 2021. "Extraordinary people are out there. In labs, holding hands with our loved ones, volunteering. And I choose to think of them and all of you when I think of this country."
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"Meetings have taught me one valuable lesson: watch the quiet people."
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1/ Overpriced coffee, libraries, hugs... what small-but-important things are you missing lately? Here, Medium writers reminisce about the little things they want back.
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"Every day that there isn’t social distancing, these cases grow exponentially." These graphs will help you understand what's happening as #COVID19 spreads. ✍️ On Medium: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, by Tomas Pueyo
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“I Lost My DACA Status Because I Was Arrested, Though Never Charged With a Crime.” by @ACLU
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Their line of questioning marks a massive departure from the techno-optimism of the late ‘90s, and hews toward a certain fatalism: The future is doomed, and there's no stopping our march toward it.
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"140 characters or even 240 does not leave much room for humility or kindness. This callous, call-out culture has completely infected both sides of the political aisle, corrupting normal people and pundits with equal viciousness," @ryanholiday writes.
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“Men’s opinions have never been considered biased, especially white men’s opinions, which are considered the standard neutral opinion in journalism, while those of women and people of color are considered biased, inaccurate or not newsworthy.”
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👋 Calling all storytellers: We’re excited to announce the #MediumWritersChallenge . Four writing prompts. Four weeks. $100K in rewards for your writing. Read more: 👇
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In her first piece as a Medium columnist, @JessicaValenti argues that motherhood isn't what holds women back from careers—it’s men who refuse to do their fair share. Valenti's column will publish every Thursday, and covers feminism, politics and culture.
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2/ Italy's death toll has overtaken China's, and their lockdown measures have been some of the most extreme in the world. Writing from Northern Italy, Greg Hopkins says "the psychological effect is disturbing:"
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Women do not cause unwanted pregnancies. Men who ejaculate irresponsibly do, writes Gabrielle Blair
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“A Map of the Introvert’s Heart” by @gemmacorrell
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"As women, our load has become so great that we see taking any amount of time for ourselves as the equivalent of self-care. It’s not." Refreshing reminder from @PerfectPending :
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Today, we’re launching Elemental, a new publication by Medium dedicated to providing deeply reported, science-backed stories on health and wellness.
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Diabetes has become the most expensive disease in the United States, costing patients $15 billion per year. Faced with an insulin pricing crisis, a group of biohackers were forced into finding a solution: create the medicine themselves.
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“I’m With The Banned” by @PennyRed
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The former corporate worker who quit his job when the cost of a cheap printer somehow became more important than actual people.
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"If Trump wins re-election I don’t see a path towards ending the pandemic here in the U.S. without continual ongoing damage." @ASlavitt on what a Trump re-election means for the pandemic:
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"What is the matter with us? Why do we need to personally be at risk to care about risk to others?" asks @ASlavitt .
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