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...Its shares are now worth about $2.1bn, a handsome windfall to their publishing empire, which also includes Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Vogue....
...We all know that the medium is the message, and this really terrific New Yorker feature by Jay Caspian Kang illustrates how social media is changing not only our politics, but our emotional and even our...
...Other stuff I’ve been reading Generative AI can’t beat human coders yet but this New Yorker essay suggests we may be living in the waning days of coding....
...Ski slope scams A federal programme that promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the US soon became rife with fraud, the New Yorker investigates....
...“All New Yorkers have a basic right to clean water, yet PepsiCo’s irresponsible packaging and marketing endanger Buffalo’s water supply, environment and public health,” James said on Wednesday....
...The kid’s a New Yorker, so he takes these terrors in his stride. Economies and crime waves rise and fall but a sense of menace is forever....
...This year, everyone from New Yorkers to out-of-towners has had to book a slot for the only line that now exists: arrive on time and join it....
...One good read Thoughts on drug decriminalisation from a tolerant but mildly grouchy New Yorker....
...Drawing from Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2017 New Yorker article (which became his multi-prize-shortlisted book Empire of Pain), Painkiller is a new six-part drama about the US opioid crisis, and the Sackler...
...Here’s Patti Smith’s obituary and homage to the Television frontman (New Yorker) — CoinDesk is doing “Policy Week”. Here’s Marc Hochstein arguing that crypto needs its own Glass-Steagall....
...Like Trump, Pecker is an “outer borough” New Yorker who grew up outside Manhattan....
...On Sunday I had a good laugh at a New Yorker cartoon. It depicted a man watching the news....
...“It’s not what is in place now, but it’s what was in place at the time,” Hoffman said....
...Factor-focused strategies may no longer be the exchange traded fund industry’s shiny new thing....
...of New Yorkers....
...Amazon’s case, its takeover of Whole Foods didn’t violate any federal antitrust laws because the ecommerce giant and the Austin, Texas-founded grocery chain weren’t direct competitors, according to Bruce Hoffman...
...Across all of New York state, roughly 1.3mn residential customers are behind on payments worth $1.7bn, a historic record, according to the Public Utility Law Project of New York....
...She is a New Yorker by birth, but made her name in Los Angeles, helping to lift the LA Philharmonic into the first division....
...Try making your own coffin (WSJ $) — “A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore” (Twitter thread) — The haves and the have-yachts (New Yorker)...
...In this deeply reported piece in The New Yorker, Yasmin Rafiei looks into the record of the Portopiccolo Group, which controls dozens of elderly-care homes in the US....
...But even most New Yorkers don’t go; the vast majority of audiences everywhere get their standup on Netflix and streamers, or TV clips on YouTube, or standup clips on TikTok....
...Founded in 2007 by then 20-year-old New Yorker David Karp, Tumblr was promoted as a place of creativity. In a 2011 interview with Inc. magazine Karp seems remarkably balanced....
...The Angel You Don’t Know’s blend of US R&B and Afropop was warmly received, including end-of-year picks by the New York Times and the New Yorker....
...“Barry’s no fool, he wouldn’t come in if he didn’t have a mandate,” said Reid Hoffman, the creator of professional social network LinkedIn, and friend of McCarthy....
...Yorker, the BBC, The Guardian, The Washington Post and even the Financial Times....
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