Justin Trudeau: Less Urgency for Electoral Reform After Harper Defeat. Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Justin Trudeau is softening on electoral reform
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised that the 2015 federal election would be the last fought under the first-past-the-post system, but, a year into his majority government, he is suggesting that electoral reform is no longer the urgent issue it was when the Conservatives under Stephen Harper were in power.”
2. Scientists accidentally discover method to convert CO2 into ethanol
“The process is cheap, efficient, and scalable, meaning it could soon be used to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.”
3. Donald Trump is the first demagogue of the Anthropocene
“I want to propose a new way of understanding Donald Trump. He not only represents a white racial backlash, and he has not only opened the way for an American extension of the European far right. Insofar as his supporters are drawn to him by a sense of global calamity, and insofar as his rhetoric singles out the refugee as yet another black and brown intruder trying to violate the nation’s cherished borders, Trump is the first demagogue of the Anthropocene.”
+1: Breitbart surfaces a new Bill Clinton sexual assault accuser.
4. Silicon Valley confronts its Peter Thiel problem
“Tech’s high priesthood has compared Donald Trump to Hitler and Stalin. But that doesn’t mean they’ll stop doing business with one of his biggest backers.”
5. I’m buying an iPhone because I’m ashamed of my green bubble
“As a person who has only ever used an Android phone, I never had a clue about my ‘green bubble’ status until someone I was dating brought it up in the middle of a conversation.”
+1: How the web became unreadable.
