Extra Extra: Is Repetitive Music Damaging Workers' Mental Health?

Feb. 25, 2019, 5:45 p.m.

Because you love demented Twitter scandals, check out today's end-of-day links: British premonitions, harmful effects of repetitive music, NYC Chinese food guide, RIP Mark Hollis, cloudless world, La Marina bankruptcy, and doggy tries to participate.

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  • Trump bragged today that his daughter Ivanka has created millions of jobs, which is a lie that makes zero sense: "I don't know if anyone knows that, but she's created millions of jobs."
  • The New Yorker has a longread about British psychiatrist John Barker, who set out to collect the premonitions of the British public.
  • Have you ever thought about the harmful mental effects of repetitive music on restaurant, retail & other service workers? "I'm not suggesting that working at Applebee's is the same as being at Guantanamo, but the principle's the same."
  • The Cut unpacks a typically demented Twitter scandal about @ElleOhHell, who was not actually a woman named Elle: "She wasn’t a woman at all, but a man, pretending to be their own wife, who was also divorcing him."
  • Eater has a big guide filled with recommendations and feature pieces on Chinese food in NYC.
  • The UK experienced its warmest February day on record today, with some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in winter, hmm, wonder why that is!
  • Speaking of which: what would the world be like without clouds?
  • RIP Talk Talk frontman and post-rock legend Mark Hollis. He was 64.
  • After former Hillary Clinton staffers criticized Bernie Sanders for using private jet flights to campaign for Clinton in 2016, Sanders's former campaign spokesperson said Clinton and her staff were "total ingrates:" "It doesn’t make me feel good to feel this way but they’re some of the biggest assholes in American politics."
  • Upper Manhattan venue/restaurant La Marina has filed for bankruptcy, saying it owes more than $600,000 in debt, "including more than $116,000 in deposits shelled out by 12 patrons who booked weddings and other events there."
  • New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was allegedly "caught on video getting a handjob and paying $100 at a Florida massage parlor/brothel, according to court documents.
  • Here is the Supergirl/The Room mashup you never realized you wanted.
  • Students from an elite Bronx private school were apparently caught using “racist, homophobic, and misogynistic language" on video.
  • Is your partner lying to you about your memes?
  • And finally, do you ever feel like you have no fucking clue what is going on, but still want to be part of the action anyway?