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genXy Live: Jobs! Trips! Dollars! And more!

A short and scintillating recap of daily news (ish), and tomorrow's launch of "The Daily Whatever" @7am Pacific, 10am Eastern.
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Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to our short but sweet Live, including

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We kicked off talking about my desperate search for a remote job in the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the piece of flash fiction I wrote yesterday for Earth Day, The Last Bloom. Please check it out if you have a moment.

Lawrence Winnerman | SCIENCE FICTION
The Last Bloom
Amber’s footsteps echo through the cavernous hallway. The air is cold and dry, and they can’t help but think of the inside of a long, hollow bone. The femur of an elephant, perhaps, long dead and empty of marrow, once part of a living, breathing thing, and now as lifeless and as sterile as this hallway in the ‘Kive. Amber remembers a scene from one of t…
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Dana shared the background of her latest piece, a moving and deeply felt rumination over her daughter’s search for a college on their recent trip to Dublin, contrasted with Dana’s own search for a place where her family might feel safe in the current and coming turbulence of Trump 2.0. Read her wonderful piece here:

Dana DuBois Writes
My Daughter Was Looking for a College. I Was Looking for a Way Out.
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Finally, we spend a moment talking about a “Sudden Stop”—a financial trend that Paul Krugman talked about in a short piece yesterday. It’s fascinating and terrifying, because it might be happening here, to the US economy, for the first time in history.

Paul Krugman
Stop! In the Name of Trump!
Source: xe.com…
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Lastly - Join us tomorrow morning for “The Daily Whatever”, where we’ll talk about the news of the day, things we’re dealing with, and always, and open invite to contribute to the chat and Ask Us Anything. We’ll be doing this every morning for the foreseeable future at 7am Pacific, and 10am Eastern.

Love you, mean it! Bye!

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