The World That's Coming

The Daily Telegraph has installed devices to monitor whether journalists are at their desks, BuzzFeed News has learned.

The newspaper confirmed the move in an email to staff after multiple employees said they came into work on Monday morning to find small plastic monitoring boxes attached to their desks.

Journalists were baffled by the unannounced appearance of the boxes. Staff resorted to googling the brand name and discovered they were wireless motion detectors produced by a company called OccupEye that monitor whether individuals are using their desks.

The word the press latched onto, to describe the ongoing jigsaw of Bowie’s career, was “chameleon.” It’s not a very good word: Chameleons change continually so they won’t be noticed, which was not an option David Bowie ever entertained. He regenerated periodically, trying on new faces, reacting against his former selves. If his work was any guide, success made him move harder and faster in new directions, jumping into “plastic soul” at the peak of his glam fame, rejecting art-pop godhood in the ’80s to turn suited and slick, and then jumping again into the cacophony of Tin Machine.

In fact, he wouldn’t be the first to observe the strange phenomenon of Trump/Sanders support crossover.

It seems counterintuitive – there seems at first glance to be little common political ground between the two – but at previous Trump rallies, supporters have been quoted by journalists as picking Vermont senator Bernie as their second-choice.

Hot Air chalks it up to the “blue collar coalition” both candidates are developing; moreover, Sanders has in the past publicly appealed to Trump supporters to back him instead, and even instructed his canvassers with specific scripts to lure Trump supporters.