De oorlog die Israël in Libanon voert, brengt gevoelens van onmacht bij Nederlandse Libanon-veteranen naar boven. „Mijn tijd in Libanon is een boek dat nooit meer dichtgaat.”
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The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life."
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human attention. Along with MS NOW host Chris Hayes' bestselling " The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource," his work is part of a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life. Burnett says the "attention liberation movement" is about throwing off the yoke of time-sucking apps. People "need to rewild their attention. Their attention is the fullness of their relationship to the world"....
There are several dozen "attention activism" groups across the United States and Canada, and the movement has also cropped up in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and England. Burnett said he expects it to spread further.
Some examples cited in the article:
"More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation."
A few miles away "Nearly 20 people in their 30s stared at their cellphones for a few minutes. Then they set them down and looked at their bared palms for a while. Then those of their neighbors." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader destinyland for sharing the article.
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human attention. Along with MS NOW host Chris Hayes' bestselling " The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource," his work is part of a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life. Burnett says the "attention liberation movement" is about throwing off the yoke of time-sucking apps. People "need to rewild their attention. Their attention is the fullness of their relationship to the world"....
There are several dozen "attention activism" groups across the United States and Canada, and the movement has also cropped up in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and England. Burnett said he expects it to spread further.
Some examples cited in the article:
"More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation."
A few miles away "Nearly 20 people in their 30s stared at their cellphones for a few minutes. Then they set them down and looked at their bared palms for a while. Then those of their neighbors." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader destinyland for sharing the article.
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BERG EN TERBLIJT (ANP) - Topfavoriete Demi Vollering zag het plan van haar ploeg mislukken in de Amstel Gold Race. Het Franse FDJ United - SUEZ wilde de koers al vroeg zwaar maken voor de kopvrouw, maar dat zorgde ervoor dat Vollering al ver voor de finale alleen kwam te zitten en zelf de aanvallen van andere favorieten moest pareren. Zo lukte het de later teruggevallen Nienke Vinke en de uiteindelijke winnares Paula Blasi om op zo'n 25 kilometer van de finish een beslissend gat te slaan met de als derde gefinishte Europees kampioen.
"We kozen ervoor om er een harde koers van te maken, om snelle rensters als Lorena (Wiebes) te breken. Dat deden we, maar de groep die overbleef was te groot en wij hadden niet veel rensters meer over. Achteraf hadden we in het begin meer energie moeten sparen, maar we hadden dit zo besloten. Dat is wel een les voor de volgende koersen", keek de winnares van de Ronde van Vlaanderen al vooruit op met name Luik-Bastenaken-Luik van volgende week.
MÜNCHEN (ANP) - De Amerikaanse tennisser Ben Shelton heeft zijn tweede titel van het jaar veroverd. De mondiale nummer 6 was in de finale van het tennistoernooi van München met 6-2 7-5 te sterk voor de Italiaan Flavio Cobolli.
Shelton stond voor het tweede jaar op rij in de finale van het graveltoernooi in Duitsland. Vorig jaar moest hij zijn meerdere erkennen in Alexander Zverev. De Duitse drievoudig winnaar verloor zaterdag in de halve eindstrijd van Cobolli.
Shelton brak Cobolli meteen in de eerste game. Hij moest daarna zes breakpunten wegwerken om op 2-0 te komen, waarna hij prompt de volgende servicegame van Cobolli op love brak. De Amerikaan had even later negen setpunten nodig om de eerste set binnen te halen.
5 toernooien gewonnen
Cobolli serveerde sterk in de tweede set en stond slechts drie punten af in zijn eerste vijf opslagbeurten. Op 5-5 werd het eerste breakpunt van de set hem meteen fataal.
Shelton won eerder dit jaar het toernooi van Dallas. Hij heeft nu in totaal vijf toernooien gewonnen.
Police say 29-year-old arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and drink driving after collision on Soho street
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit pedestrians in central London in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A woman in her 30s is in hospital in a critical condition and a man in his 50s suffered life-changing injuries after they were hit by a car in Argyll Street, Westminster, at about 4.30am on Sunday, the Metropolitan police said.
Continue reading...Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to ask MPs to back controversial voluntary repatriation scheme
Italian lawyers will be paid bonuses if they successfully convince their immigrant clients to return home under a government plan that has been compared to a “wild west-style bounty”.
The incentive is in the latest security bill from Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government and goes to the lower house of parliament for final approval this week. It was passed by the upper house after fiery debate.
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