Apple's Massive, Ring-Shaped New Headquarters Is Opening This April
This post originally appeared in Business Insider.
Apple has announced that its new $5 billion campus will be open to employees starting
in April.
The Silicon Valley tech giant said it would take over six months to move more than 12,000
workers to the new campus, which is set on a 175-acre site.
The ring-shaped facility, which Apple is now calling "Apple Park," is several months behind
schedule.
Construction on the main building and the surrounding parkland will continue over the
summer, Apple said.
Apple said the Apple Park would also feature:
a visitor's center with an Apple Store and a café that are open to the public
a 100,000-square-foot fitness center secure research-and-development facilities
2 miles of walking and running tracks and an orchard, a meadow, and a pond.
Apple started work on the Apple Park in 2013.
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, told employees last year that Apple planned to move the first
groups into the new "Spaceship" campus in January 2017.
Apple also revealed on Wednesday that the new 1,000-seat auditorium would be named the
Steve Jobs Theatre, after the company's late co-founder who would have turned 62 this Friday.
The auditorium, which is "opening later this year," sits on a hill overlooking the rest
of the campus and comes with a metallic carbon-fiber roof.
"Steve's vision for Apple stretched far beyond his time with us," Cook said in a statement.
"He intended Apple Park to be the home of innovation for generations to come.
The workspaces and parklands are designed to inspire our team as well as benefit the
environment.
We've achieved the most energy-efficient building of its kind in the world and the campus will
run entirely on renewable energy."
Jonny Ive, Apple's chief design officer, added in a statement: "Steve invested so much of
his energy creating and supporting vital, creative environments.
We have approached the design, engineering and making of our new campus with the same
enthusiasm and design principles that characterize our products.
"Connecting extraordinarily advanced buildings with rolling parkland creates a wonderfully
open environment for people to create, collaborate and work together.
We have been extremely fortunate to be able to work closely, over many years, with the
remarkable architectural practice Foster + Partners."
Why Do We Slaughter Livestock in New York City
The escaped Queens bull begs the question.
Late Tuesday morning, a bull escaped a Queens slaughterhouse, causing an inadvertent "running
of the bulls" moment for bystanders, police, and journalists alike.
As the bull barreled along an unpredictable path, cops shot it with tranquilizers as they
attempted to stop it.
After a nearly three-hour-long chase during which no injuries were reported, the bull
was eventually captured.
Plans to send it to an animal sanctuary were made in vain—the bull died that afternoon
while in transport.
The cause of death has yet to be determined (it could be the dozen tranquilizers that
actually hit the bull, it could be stress, etc.).
Of course, the internet has already started to mourn the bull, which it inevitably rooted
for.
"We are all the Queens Cow," one tweet proclaimed.
"Just let him live his life!!" read another.
The tweet from Eyewitness News in New York: "Rest in peace, Queens Bull.
We hope you're running wild and free in heaven's pastures!"
The Queens cow never ran completely free in any pastures, and its entire existence was
predicated on the fact that it would one day become a burger.
Still, it's natural that a large mammal on the loose in a metropolitan area would
become a news story—but the most remarkable thing about the Queens bull is that it is
not unique.
It's not even the first to escape in Jamaica, the neighborhood in Queens where it got loose.
The last one, which escaped in April, gained perhaps even more fame after being rescued
by the comedian Jon Stewart, who took the captured bull to a shelter in upstate New
York.
The previous month, another cow in Queens made an escape from a slaughterhouse, and
it, too, was sent to a sanctuary.
There was a Queens cow on the loose in 2011, and before that in 2009.
These high-profile escapes raise the inevitable question: What are livestock doing in Queens,
anyway?
It turns out that slaughterhouses in cities are on the rise.
According to a New York Times article from 2009:
There are about 90 live-poultry markets in the [New York City] metropolitan area.
That number has doubled since the mid-1990s, state officials say, because of the demands
of immigrants from countries where eyeballing your meat while it is alive is considered
common sense.
About a quarter of the markets are also licensed to slaughter larger livestock.
In many instances, the livestock itself is only shipped in for slaughter, rather than
being raised here (real estate in the city is still pricey).
And the Big Apple seems to be the mecca of in-city slaughter, the Times article says:
New York has probably the country's highest concentration of live-animal markets, though
there are pockets in New Jersey, New England, Philadelphia, California and the Midwest,
said Susan Trock, a veterinarian who manages poultry health inspections for the State Department
of Agriculture and Markets.
Tom Mylan, who carves up cows in front of customers at Marlow & Daughters, a butcher
shop and locavore's temple in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said he lived near three live-animal
markets, two run by Hasidic Jews and one by Latin Americans.
Although they may not share his obsession with animal welfare and organic feed, he said,
he views them as allies against the mass-market industry he calls "big meat."
New York seems to be an epicenter of demand thanks to the concentration of locavores,
immigrants, religious observers, and foodies alike.
But still, most cities' meatpacking districts have now moved on to serve other needs—think
of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, which made the city at one point the meatpacking center
of the world, or NYC's own meatpacking district in western Manhattan, now the home of trendy
clubs and the fictitious Samantha Jones.
As slaughterhouses primarily moved to rural areas, many people have come to think of the
idea of urban livestock as unnatural, even as they follow the tales of escaped animals
with great interest.
An escaped bull—and one fleeing from sudden death—is a sympathetic character, and we
have a tendency to anthropomorphize animals that find themselves wandering city streets.
But cattle, much like deer, are not in need of protection as a species.
It's odd to bring large animals into population-dense areas to kill them—as the Queens bull shows,
they can get loose and cause a lot more damage in a city than they might elsewhere.
But what is possibly more unnatural is our tendency to separate the food we eat from
the live animals that provide it.
The motivations that are bringing slaughter back into the city are at the very least grounding—even
if it does cause the occasional traffic jam.
"Rogue" Twitter Feeds as Liberal Self-Care
Why we can't stop retweeting @AngryWHStaffer, @RoguePOTUSStaff, and fake Sally Yates
In a media climate shot through with both angst and alternative facts, a few pranksters
have inevitably combined the two.
Fake "rogue" government Twitter accounts!
Welcome to the latest exercise in liberal self-soothing.
Last week, someone posing as disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn fooled
thousands of readers (and Nancy Pelosi).
"While I accept full responsibility for my actions," faux Flynn wrote, "I feel
it is unfair that I have been made the sole scapegoat for what happened.
… But if a scapegoat is what's needed for this Administration to continue to take
this great nation forward, I am proud to do my duty."
Meanwhile, a counterfeit Stephen Miller favorited a tweet from David Duke, earning notice from
at least one liberal magazine editor.
The tweets hit the masochistic left's erogenous zones, flooding us with pleasure and pain.
Of course Miller was a shameless racist.
And "Flynn's" posts confirmed what everyone already suspected: The adviser hadn't courted
Moscow alone; his overtures manifested a deeper White House rot.
To the Democratic lawmakers who immediately called for a public hearing on Team Trump's
ties to Russia, Flynn's tweets told a damning story about a ruthless and dishonest administration
that thought little of sacrificing its loyal foot soldiers.
(And just look at that lackey persisting in his mindless obedience!
I am proud to do my duty … ghastly.)
Amid the torture of Trump's presidency, the posts meant that the opposition might
finally succeed in nailing some hides to the wall.
What's more, their rancidness provided a faint, secondary consolation: We were right.
Elsewhere in Shangri-La, progressives thrilled to a fake feed that sprouted after Sally Yates
got fired for refusing to enforce the Muslim ban.
"You know you have made the right decision when there is peace in your heart," @SaIIyYates
tweeted on Feb. 2.
The subsequent missives seemed as relatably banal as our own bursts of online anti-Trumpism.
Yates must feel impotent too, we observed, our empathy streaked with delicious self-pity.
Still, it was comforting to think that the venerated legal figure had not lost her iron
spine.
Tender uplift (and questionable grammar) was also available from a bogus Bollywood star–turned–Yates
impersonator, who claimed: "I took and uphold oath to defend the constitution not to someone's
personal likings."
(Meanwhile, the former deputy AG's actual account has been deactivated.)
One month into re-greatened America, liberal timelines are clogged with wish fulfillment.
It's not only hoaxers targeting any Trump staffer (or ex-staffer) with an L in his name
that can easily be replaced in a Twitter handle with an uppercase I.
There's also a crop of "alternative" government agencies—@AltStateDpt, @Alt_DeptofEd,
@Alt_CDC—conjuring a shadow bureaucracy of men and women who share progressive values
and want to fight.
A Rogue POTUS Staff account (845K followers) proclaims itself "the unofficial resistance
team inside the White House."
In language reminiscent of the jacket copy on a Le Carré novel, it continues: "We
pull back the curtain to expose the real workings inside this disastrous, frightening Administration."
Typical tweets describe Trump as a tyrant, mock his statements to the press, and attempt
to organize rallies.
The other "dark" agencies post fact checks and "strategy reads for the #resistance."
Then there is @AngryWHStaffer, whose bio flatly declares, "I work at the White House.
This is a disaster."
This fantasy employee whispers blandishments like "It's like rats off a sinking ship
here.
… Full on crisis mode."
Our inside guy promises: "Give what I'm seeing here, I'm left with one option to
save this nation.
I'm going to start leaking EVERYTHING."
True or not, the narcotizing vision of a White House riven by infighting and ineptitude is
Chicken Soup for the Leftie Soul.
Meanwhile, the account's tone, neither inflammatory nor trolly, is a perfect counterweight to
that unruly picture: It suggests an everyman driven to desperation by the chaos and malice
around him.
"This is crazy," the staffer will say.
"Please don't let this happen."
Our spy speaks for the silent, sane majority that imagines it would heroically leak some
intelligence if given the chance; the beleaguered citizens who come home from work, rub their
temples, and fire up The West Wing on Netflix.
Like Josiah Bartlet, this person is probably a fabrication.
But so what?
The notion that decent, well-meaning folks are keeping vigil on Trump from inside the
palace walls is a form of escapism, like alcohol or James Bond movies.
Properly understood, it's not fake news; it's fiction as self-care.
To that end, many of the rogue accounts take pains to distance themselves from the official
federal government.
Yet they remain wildly popular: @AltStateDpt, for instance, has 153K followers despite a
bio larded with disclaimers.
The Alt U.S. National Park Service—the first sham feed of them all, established when Trump
silenced the real NPS after a feud about inaugural crowd sizes—announces that it is explicitly
against political untruths, which is either encouraging or ironic depending on your perspective.
Its bio: "The #Resistance team against #AltFacts #FauxNews #FauxScience.
#Science #Climate #Facts Run by non-gov individuals."
It's unclear how many people seek out these handles because they want information about
the government and how many are chasing a psychic pick-me-up.
For the first group, the persuasive value of a given post often lies in the retweet,
which lifts the momentarily convincing message out of its questionable context.
For savvier consumers, though, the accounts may more resemble the Chrome extensions that
convert Trump's tweets into crayon scribbles or swap his face for cat photos, literally
altering reality to make it go down easier.
Here is where the line between "fiction as self-care" and "willful ignorance"
grows blurry.
Of course we all need a break sometimes.
And surely a few well-chosen parody accounts do not a filter bubble make.
But as more and more imaginary good guys give us permission to turn inward, it's worth
asking whether the solace of a slightly rosier worldview comes at too steep a cost if it
means disengaging from the truth.
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