Emotionally Intelligent People Use 2 Simple Rules to Stop Negative Thinking and Move Forward

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Emotionally Intelligent People Use 2 Simple Rules to Stop Negative Thinking and Move Forward     Are you trapped in a cycle of negative thinking? Here's how to break out of it. Continued here

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Peloton Told Customers to Stop Using Their Bikes. Then It Told Them They Had to Keep Paying for Their Subscription     The company is recalling 2 million bikes. In the meantime, it's trying to figure out how to do the right thing for customers. Continued here

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3 Toxic Things Great Leaders Never Do, According to a Survey of 800 Employees     Playing favorites is Number 1. Continued here

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This Surveillance System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate     The conditions inside the Fulton County Jail system are dire. Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are sleeping on the floor in plastic trays. Cell doors hang off hinges, footage from one local news report shows, and leaked water pools on the floor in some areas. Last September, one person was found dead and covered in bed bugs.The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, which runs multiple jails around Atlanta and has been granted more funding to fix the problems, is also in the process of rolling out a new surveillance system that can track inmates to precise levels. Across the region’s jails, hundreds of sensors are being embedded into the walls. Using radio frequencies, these communicate with wristbands issued to inmates. Continued here

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New Research Finds the Entrepreneurial Leader Has a More Exceptional Personality Than the Corporate Leader     What separates the entrepreneur from the rest? Continued here

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Hyperdimensional Computing Reimagines Artificial Intelligence     Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track.For one, ANNs are “super power-hungry,” said Cornelia Fermüller, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland. “And the other issue is [their] lack of transparency.” Such systems are so complicated that no one truly understands what they’re doing, or why they work so well. This, in turn, makes it almost impossible to get them to reason by analogy, which is what humans do—using symbols for objects, ideas, and the relationships between them. Continued here

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Apple's Vision Pro AR/VR Headset Helps Companies Build the Future of Gaming and the Metaverse     For businesses building in the space, this is a revolution Continued here

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New NASA video shows just how big black holes really are     A new NASA animation puts the size of 10 supermassive black holes into perspective — by showing how some of them simply dwarf our entire Solar System.Black holes: Black holes are points in space where gravity is so strong, even light can’t escape its pull. The point of no return around a black hole is called its “event horizon,” and while we can’t see anything inside it, we can learn about black holes from what’s around them. Continued here

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How to Negotiate with Powerful Suppliers     In many industries the balance of power has shifted from buyers to suppliers. Companies that have gotten into a weak position need to tackle the problem strategically, the authors argue. They should consider the following actions and implement the least-risky one that is feasible for their organization. Continued here

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3 Things You Need to Know to Build a Strong Network     It can seem a lower priority when you're building your business, but a small time investment here will pay off later. Continued here

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The Congressman Telling Trump Supporters to 'Buckle Up'     Their civil war is imaginary, but there really are men with guns, more now than I’ve seen in 20 years of reporting on the right.The night that Donald Trump was indicted, Republican politicians again swore their allegiance to the man and the base for which he stands. Most invoked banana republics, but a bolder faction suggested retaliation. “We have now reached a war phase,” wrote Representative Andy Biggs on Twitter. “Eye for an eye.” Speaking in Georgia, Arizona’s failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake—continuing her audition for VP on Trump’s ticket—promised that 75 million armed Americans stood between Trump and prosecution. “That’s not a threat,” she smirked. “That’s a public-service announcement.” But Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a former sheriff’s deputy, issued the most strident statement of all. He advised followers on Twitter: Continued here

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Happy, sad, angry, horny: The ultimate map guide to 90s rock music     What was special about the 1990s? Both a lot and nothing much, argues Chuck Klosterman in The Nineties: A Book, a retrospective of the decade that straddles the emergence of the internet.With the Cold War concluded, it seemed — if only for a few brief years — that America had reached a civilizational end point. Everything would be the same, or permutations of the same, forever. Nothing would ever matter again. Gen X, then supposedly in their prime, certainly were a cohort fit for their time: bored, cynical under-achievers, passively waiting for something, anything, to end the beigeness of everyday life. Continued here

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The Man Who Invented the Trillion-Dollar Coin     About a dozen years ago, a pseudonymous commenter on a financial website, writing under the name Beowulf, presented an unusual solution for a debt-ceiling standoff: If the federal government was at risk of default, and Congress couldn’t agree to either cut spending or raise the borrowing limit cleanly, couldn’t it simply mint a trillion-dollar coin?Beowulf had come across a 1997 law that, in response to requests from coin collectors, gave the Treasury the power to mint platinum coins of any denomination. (Collectors had complained that even coins available at the time with the smallest face values were still too expensive to afford.) The law started as a way to make collectible coins cheaper, but unlike every other law regulating new coins, this one did not establish a specific face value or limit the number of coins produced. Continued here

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40 Father's Day Gifts for the Dependable Dude in Your Life     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDYeah, yeah, the "bear foot" slippers were a riot when you gave them to Pop Pop last year, but this is a good time to go beyond the gags and give him something that won't end up in a landfill. Dads are hard to shop for, what with their tendency to tell you exactly what they want and then go out and buy it for themselves two days before Father's Day. Outflank him and use our guide to snag the perfect gift that not even he knows he desperately needs in his life. Continued here

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The 15 Best Games on PlayStation Plus     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDEven though PlayStation Plus has a convoluted structure, the video game subscription service remains a worthwhile choice for avid gamers. It’s especially an affordable entry point for PS5 owners who missed out on previous generations of Sony’s console. Longtime PlayStation devotees may have to really dig through the catalog to uncover a delightful surprise. Continued here

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The Reddit App War Is Getting Messy     Big changes are coming to Reddit, and nobody is happy about it. Reddit management is looking to take the company public, which means the money-minded folks behind the scenes are feeling pressure to spruce up the coffers of the free-to-use social media service. Naturally, those effots have riled up the site’s users.Back in April, Reddit announced it would be tweaking its API, affecting how third party apps can use Reddit’s data and architecture. Essentially, the company is hiking the cost of using its data to levels third party app developers say are untenable. Continued here

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Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects     Marriage rates in America are falling fast: Many men and women are marrying later, and more and more people. are never marrying at all. Marriage is in retreat for a host of reasons, but one overlooked cause is the rising difficulty many young people have finding a partner who meets all of their requirements—emotional, physical, financial, and political. That last requirement has only become more important over time, with fewer Americans willing to date or marry across the aisle.Dating apps and websites report a growing share of users setting political criteria for matches. The Survey Center on American Life, a project of the American Enterprise Institute, recently found that about two-thirds of liberal and conservative singles would be more likely to “swipe left” and reject a potential match who did not share their politics. Continued here

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Apple Vision Pro: Can it really buck the trend of augmented reality flops?     Apple is best known for its game changing new product launches. The arrival of the iPod was instrumental in transforming how the world interacts and consumes music, while the launch of the iPhone marked the start of the smartphone era. It has also helped tablets and later smartwatches become must-have accessories thanks to the iPad and Apple Watch.And this week's announcement that the company will sell a $3,499 (£2,800) mixed-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, from early next year, has been seen by some as a new iPhone moment. Continued here

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The Three Biggest Obstacles to Convicting Trump     Although Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought a strong case, he still faces significant challenges.Donald Trump has been indicted on 37 felony counts related to his theft of classified documents and his obstruction of the investigation into that security breach. Now comes the hard part: trying the case. Continued here

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The Carrington event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A "Miyake event" would be far worse     A little after midnight in the late summer of 1859, campers dozing beneath the night sky in the Colorado Rockies woke to a display of auroral light “so bright one could easily read common print.” In their account of the event, published in the Rocky Mountain News, the party recalled that “some insisted it was daylight and began the preparation of breakfast.”Thousands of miles away, crowds gathered in the streets of San Francisco with eyes turned skyward. “The whole sky appeared to undulate something like a field of grain in a high wind; the waters of the Bay reflected the brilliant hues of the Aurora,” wrote one journalist in the San Francisco Herald on September 5, 1859. “Nothing could exceed the grandeur and beauty of the sight; the effect was almost bewildering and was witnessed with mingled feelings of awe and delight by thousands.” City dwellers around the world shared this experience. Continued here

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Bethesda's "Starfield Direct" shows off a massive, galactic-scale space RPG     It's been about a year now since we got our first glimpse of Starfield's "No Man's Skyrim" gameplay. Today, ahead of the game's planned September 6 launch, Bethesda's 45-minute Starfield Direct presentation offered a deep dive into the game's galactic scale and many of the systems that will power exploration on and between "over 1,000 planets." Continued here

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A Zany Nightlife Comedy     This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Continued here

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Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders     You’re probably counting value, not adding it, if you’re managing people. Only managers count value; some even reduce value by disabling those who add value. If a diamond cutter is asked to report every 15 minutes how many stones he has cut, by distracting him, his boss is subtracting value. Continued here

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The Growing Battle Over Infant Milk Allergies     For Taylor Arnold, a registered dietitian nutritionist, feeding her second baby was not easy. At eight weeks old, he screamed when he ate and wouldn’t gain much weight. Arnold brought him to a gastroenterologist, who diagnosed him with allergic proctocolitis—an immune response to the proteins found in certain foods, which she narrowed down to cow’s milk.Cow’s-milk-protein allergies, or CMPA, might be on the rise—following a similar trend in other children’s food allergies—and they can upend a caregiver’s feeding plans: In many cases, a breastfeeding parent is told to eliminate dairy from their diet, or switch to a specialized hypoallergenic formula, which can be expensive. Continued here

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Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair     Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.“There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote as he reckoned with the rudiments of happiness. “We hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. This is what governs us,” artist Maira Kalman observed in her illustrated chronicle of the pursuit of happiness.To accept that there can be no happiness without despair is to recognize that, rather than a malady of the spirit, despair is the rudder course-correcting the ship of the self, steering it from the actual to the ideal. Continued here

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Trump indictment unsealed - a criminal law scholar explains what the charges mean, and what prosecutors will now need to prove     Federal prosecutors on June 9, 2023, unsealed the indictment that spells out the government’s case against former President Donald J. Trump, who is accused of violating national security laws and obstructing justice.The 49-page document details how Trump kept classified government documents – including papers concerning U.S. nuclear capabilities – scattered in boxes across his home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, long after his presidency ended in 2021 and the government tried to reclaim them. Continued here

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My God, This Is a Magical Country     Do you like being by yourself ? How do you experience your own company? It’s a fundamental human question. I’d invited my friend John—razor intellect, gamma-ray eyeballs—to drive across America with me, to take a trip into America, but John was immobilized by difficulties with his teeth. So I was alone. Alone for 10 days at the wheel of a sky-blue 2009 Toyota Camry—my son’s car, which I was driving back from Los Angeles to our home in Boston because he was taking a leave of absence from college.Alone, which has its advantages. I made the rules, I set the pace, autocrat of the pee break, and if I wanted another Filet-O-Fish, motherfucker, I was having one. Continued here

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How Will the G.O.P. Field Respond to Donald Trump's Indictment?     How do you campaign against a political rival for whom there is no conceivable precedent? When the Department of Justice indicted Donald Trump, last week, on counts arising from his handling of classified documents, he became not only the first former President in American history to face federal charges but also the most confounding front-runner ever in a Presidential primary. Trump is a candidate for Commander-in-Chief who now faces thirty-seven counts for refusing to return material related, according to the indictment, to "United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack." Trump, who first came to power assailing his rival, Hillary Clinton, for her storage of sensitive information, is now accused of urging an attorney to "hide or destroy documents," and of allowing unqualified civilians to see secret files. In one instance, at his golf club in New Jersey, the former President is alleged to have told visitors about a classified "plan of attack" against Iran, and was recorded on tape admitting that "this is still a secret."The federal indictment came two months after Trump was indicted in Manhattan on thirty-four counts related to a hush-money case. Those charges, which he denied, gave him a boost in the polls. The latest counts, which Trump also denies, could further fortify his grip on the Republican Party or, in the fullness of time, they could blast the race wide open. The effect will depend, in part, on the strategic calculations of his opponents. Continued here

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Why the Supreme Court Declined an Opportunity to Diminish the Voting Rights Act     On Thursday, in a stunning 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s redistricting process had illegally diluted the power of Black voters. The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who has generally been hostile to voting-rights concerns; in 2013, he wrote the majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, which threw out Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act. In this week’s opinion, Roberts preserved Section 2 of the V.R.A. Though he has concerns that Section 2 “may impermissibly elevate race in the allocation of political power within the States,” he wrote, “It simply holds that a faithful application of our precedents and a fair reading of the record before us do not bear them out here.” He was joined by the Court’s three liberal Justices and, surprisingly, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who also wrote a separate concurrence. The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, accused the majority of “hijacking the districting process to pursue a goal that has no legitimate claim under our constitutional system: the proportional allocation of political power on the basis of race.”To talk about the decision and its implications, I spoke by phone with Ruth Greenwood, the director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed what could have been behind Roberts’s seeming change of heart, what the decision means for other states around the country, and what the concurring opinions and dissents suggest about the future of voting rights. Continued here

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You Need To Watch The Most Misunderstood Sci-Fi Movie On Netflix ASAP     In science fiction cinema, what was considered a disaster 40 years ago is often reclaimed as a classic. Call it Blade Runner-ism, a film that was largely ignored by the public in 1982, but achieves near untouchable cinematic praise today. Two years later, David Lynch’s Dune would also bomb at the box office, but unlike Blade Runner, the 1984 Dune hasn’t quite rebounded in the cultural consciousness. Outside of any nuanced discussion, Dune (1984) is often considered an artistic failure even within the circles of people who love it. But, the thing is, if you haven’t seen it, you have to see it. The cult film, based on Frank Herbert’s first Dune novel, just hit Netflix. Here’s why it’s a great time to watch it for the first time, or, with fresh eyes.There’s a lot to say about the tortured making-of and mixed reception of Lynch’s Dune. In September 2023, there’s an oral history of the making of the movie called A Masterpiece in Disarray by Max Evry. Meanwhile, the same month, in my new book, The Spice Must Flow (which covers the entire history of the Dune franchise), I spend about 8,000 words on this film, but, end up referencing it in nearly every single chapter. There are two points here: You can get into the weeds very easily about the ins and outs of how this movie was made, but its influence is much bigger than it might seem. Continued here