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    Extra Extra: Don't Give "Attention Hijackers" What They Want

    by Ben Yakas
    Published July 24, 2020
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    • For the record, Paw Patrol has not been cancelled, despite what White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany claimed today.
    • Charlie Warzel argues in this very good op-ed that we should collectively ignore the cancel culture debaters and other "attention hijackers." He writes that we have more productive things to do with our time: "In other words, we have every possible reason to withdraw our attention from those who greedily seek it and invest it somewhere else."
    • Revel is being sued by at least 12 people in NYC "who claimed the scooters malfunctioned or by people who claim they were injured by Revel riders driving them unsafely."
    • If you're looking for an exquisite brunch hate read, the NY Times has got you covered: "Turning a Second Home Into a Primary Home."
    • The beginning of the pandemic shutdown was apparently the longest period of quiet in recorded human history.
    • Have you accidentally tricked your body into thinking you're lighter than you actually are?
    • RIP La Caridad 78, the Cuban-Chinese UWS restaurant that has been a staple in the neighborhood for more than 50 years.
    • More than two dozen people, most of them children taking swimming lessons, were sickened at a New Jersey pool "by a toxic concoction of chlorine gas and hydrochloric acid."
    • A Lyft driver who told a woman that he would not give her a ride if she wasn't wearing a mask told NBC that he was spit on and attacked by her, and he was later arrested.
    • How would you reimagine the Brooklyn Bridge?
    • The National's Aaron Dessner talked to Pitchfork about his collaboration with Taylor Swift.
    • And finally, please take me here:

    this is what it looks like when you open the gates to heaven
    (sawneedogs IG/TT) pic.twitter.com/jmNC4pzltl

    — Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) July 24, 2020

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