Monday morning news drop
Divorcing Couples Fight Over the Kids, the House and Now the Crypto Dividing the family’s Bitcoin stash has become a major source of contention in divorce cases. (New York Times)
The internet turned “money” into a hobby Why (mostly) 20- and 30-something dudes made crypto and sports betting their personality. (Vox)
The Bond Market Can Finally Do Its Job Again: Its behavior is supposed to warn about inflation but the function was smothered by a decade of QE bond buying (Bloomberg)
Why Your Car Might Be Worth More Today Than When You Bought It The surge in used-car prices is undoing years of depreciation on some models, leaving some car owners with vehicles worth more now than when bought. (Wall Street Journal)
How the Sugar Industry Makes Political Friends and Influences Elections A city commissioner race in Florida provides a window into how the sugar industry cultivates political allies, who help protect its interests. (ProPublica)
The Waste Land: Two crucial and interconnected resources—human feces and arable soil—face crises of mismanagement. (New York Review of Books)
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen Prof Joel Nigg, who is one of the leading experts in the world on children’s attention problems, and he told me we need to ask if we are now developing “an attentional pathogenic culture” – an environment in which sustained and deep focus is harder for all of us. Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can (The Guardian)
Covid longhaulers are still fighting for recognition. People with long Covid face an uphill battle convincing skeptics their malady is real – but discrediting uncommon conditions is hardly a new phenomenon (The Guardian)
It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart: The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them (The Atlantic)
Neo-Nazis and QAnon: how Canadian truckers’ anti-vaccine protest was steered by extremists Ottawa’s occupation was a result of unrivaled coordination between anti-vax and anti-government organizations. (The Guardian)
The hacked account and suspicious donations behind the Canadian trucker protests The jumble of misinformation, online fundraising groups and amplification from right-wing political figures suggests there’s more to these protests than meets the eye. (Grid)
Eric Clapton’s Covid vaccine conspiracies mark a sad final act Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored. (NBC News)