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Selective empathy is fucking us up. Gone are the days of the universal brand of empathy: put yourself in the shoes of others, etc. Today it's all about choosing who you are going to empathise with. Why would I care if the fascist's wife has been abused? She chose to be with such a despicable being! Feeling empathy for your team only has undesirable outcomes. An idea is to see it not as an altruistic feeling but rather because it might be a needed feature for survival, y'know, cause we can't do much alone — npr.org

The U.S. tip-free experiment is failing. Over the past few years, restaurants tried to remove tipping. But it's not working out. Higher price perception and reduced feeling of power for diners are some reasons — grubstreet.com

The less you regard your future self as a stranger, the happier you become — sagepub.com

On whether humans witnessed evolution: “Over the years, selective predation by human fishermen, who ate the least human-looking crabs but threw the mask-like ones back into the sea alive, has caused the crabs to become more and more human-looking.” — quora.com

Why is Microsoft faring better than its rivals in the current tech backlash period? — axios.com

On Airbnb: “This consistent demographic of tourists, interchangeable with one another in their cosmopolitan tastes and habits of consumption, expects to find wherever it goes the café culture of Melbourne, the industrial lighting of Brooklyn, and the Internet speeds of Stockholm. “These people are not looking to live like a working-class family of migrants from Bangladesh,” he said. “They are not looking for that kind of local.”” — newyorker.com

Undead pigs? Scientists reestablish some kind of life (neurons carrying sugar, electrical impulses) in pig brains more than four hours after their death — nature.com

What are we doing now that will be unthinkable in 50 years? Some say the War on Drugs. But Meredith Broussard has a rather contrarian opinion: self-driving cars. She argues that in social transportation, the authority we give to drivers is the fruit of some social contract's long evolution. It's not the same with machines — vox.com

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