Giethoorn is rightly called the Dutch

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Joanne McNeil, who often reports on how the human experience intersects with labor and technology brings blazing compassion and criticism to Wrong Way, examining the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. Within these divides, McNeil turns the unsaid into the unignorable, and captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop, full-service gig economy.

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JOANNE MCNEIL was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation.
Joanne is the author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User.

SARAH JAFFE is an author, independent journalist, and a co-host of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast.

The small village of Venice or the Venice of the North. Its main feature is that there are no roads as we understand them – all traffic is carried out along numerous water channels that crisscross the entire picturesque small village.

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The village of Giethoorn gained particular fame in 1958 after the popular film of the time by the Dutch director Bert Haanstra "Fanfare". In fact, the village was founded in 1230 by refugees who whatsapp number database from a flood in the southern part of the country.

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Having founded a small settlement in this marshy area, they began actively mining peat. As a result, narrow channels appeared, which after some time were completely filled with underground water. Since then, the water channels have become the only roads in the village of Giethoorn, and all the residents here travel exclusively on light boats and boats.

northern venice

Another attractive feature of the village of Giethoorn is its cute, neat houses. Near each of them there is always a small lawn with small trees, well-trimmed bushes and flowers. Most of the houses are located on numerous islands, which are connected to each other by wooden bridges, of which there are about 50 in the village.