"I hope that news-reading goes the same way as smoking: a gross thing that our grandparents did because they didn’t know any better. Maybe one day people will only be allowed to read the news in designated zones, lest anyone else catch a whiff of any second-hand news."
— Adam Mastroianni, https://www.experimental-history.com/p/reading-the-news-is-the-new-smoking
Mike Taylor 🦕
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