What Happens to Childhood When Everything Is Posted Online: Here’s What We’re Reading

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

1. When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?

Videos of kids simply acting like kids attract millions of viewers, sometimes billions. Every moment of childhood — getting new toys, tagging along to the grocery store, making up games in their back yards — is material that can be recorded and uploaded.

“So is it any wonder that the children who watch these videos begin to act as if their entire lives are being recorded, too?”

Washington Post

2. Is Canada’s weed industry turning into another bubble?

“Investors have been deliriously optimistic about Canadian weed stocks in the last month or so. The US vote to legalize marijuana in California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine, combined with the impending legalization of weed in Canada in early 2017 has a created an irrational exuberance of sorts at the potential size of a recreational market.”

Vice News

3. Online, everything is alternative media

“Much action during the campaign, therefore, was with the tens of millions of Americans who experience media and political campaigns through Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms. Everything else was on the outside, fighting its way in. The mainstream media was more allergic to this idea because it had more to lose: its business models, and its self-image as arbiter of fact and fiction and as agenda-setter.”

New York Times

4. How ‘Inception’ changed the way we listen to movies

“Investors have been deliriously optimistic about Canadian weed stocks in the last month or so. The US vote to legalize marijuana in California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine, combined with the impending legalization of weed in Canada in early 2017 has a created an irrational exuberance of sorts at the potential size of a recreational market.”

Long Reads

5. What the world gets wrong about spaghetti bolognese

“Spaghetti bolognese translates, roughly, to ‘spaghetti from Bologna.’ But if you try to take this particular flavor train back where it supposedly comes from, forget it—you’ll be turned straight around. The British broadcaster and politician Michael Portillo found this out the hard way when he took a camera crew to the city seeking the dish. ‘Oh my gosh, no,’ says the first young woman he encounters in the footage. She makes an X with her arms, as though warding off a great evil. ‘Assolutamente no. No no no no.'”

Atlas Obscura