04:28 2 years ago, Saudi Arabia quietly canceled the ‘petrodollar’ deal with America that wired the world economy for 50 years. Then war broke out in Iran (news.google.com)
02-07 YouTube Revenue for Full-Year 2025 Topped 60 Billion, Making Video Platform Bigger Than Netflix Ad revenue hit record 11.38 billion in Q4 but fell short of Wall Street expectations (old.reddit.com)
02-06 Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits / A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay the victim 8.5 million in damages. (old.reddit.com)
02-06 After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing ''better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'' (old.reddit.com)
02-06 Yet another Windows update is wreaking havoc on gaming rigs worldwide — Nvidia recommends uninstalling Windows 11 KB5074109 January update to prevent framerate drops and artifacting (old.reddit.com)
04:28 2 years ago, Saudi Arabia quietly canceled the ‘petrodollar’ deal with America that wired the world economy for 50 years. Then war broke out in Iran (news.google.com)
06:30 World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ (www.theguardian.com)
04-06 The freewheelin’ Harmeet Dhillon: The prominent Republican litigator built her reputation as the ultimate San Francisco iconoclast (www.politico.com)
06:32 “The Drama” Is One Long Troll - Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. (www.newyorker.com)
05:48 What Would a Ground Invasion of Iran Look Like? - As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What Trump’s Reorganization of the Forest Service Means for Rural America - Lots of room for lumber lobbyists, less for forest science. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy - As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists - If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What Will the Artemis II Moon Mission Teach Us? - Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 “Theodore Roosevelt Taylor,” by Tyehimba Jess - “In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing - Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem - Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen - Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions that shape the art. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? - Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? - As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man,” “True Color,” “Half His Age,” and “Under Water.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 “Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks,” by Morgan Parker - “Sometimes I text my friends I’m crying / and they reply lol.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family - In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free? - Two writers of different evangelical generations offer rival visions of marriage, motherhood, and ambition. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax - To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest—his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 Do the Circulation-Desk Shuffle - The New York Public Library’s new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine? (www.newyorker.com)