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)
04-17 Stock Market Today: Dow up 1,000 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs, as oil prices plunge 10%; Iran says Strait of Hormuz is ''completely open'' (news.google.com)
00:50 VTI Holds Every Corner of the U.S. Market -- Including the Small-Caps Getting Hit Hardest. Is That a Problem or an Opportunity? (finance.yahoo.com)
04-17 We ditched our six-figure corporate jobs and sold our house to move to Albania. Moving abroad in our 30s let us chart our own path. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-17 I moved my family from Florida to Colombia. The lifestyle is affordable and we love the vibrant culture, but it''s hard to adjust to the lack of urgency. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-17 We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-mail Jobs - We need Directors of Manual Automation Sales Development who roll up their sleeves and type one singular e-mail every day in which they pass off their work to a different department. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze - Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy - “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws - The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Our Longing for Inconvenience - The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear” - Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool but mechanical as a drama. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 America’s Orange Jesus - Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 “Mother Mary,” Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, Reviewed - Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that’s smaller than their personalities. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran? - As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 “Beef,” “The Drama,” and the New Marriage Plot - Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” - Gina Gionfriddo’s zinger-filled sex farce and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s confounding musical are cathartic catnip. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Is Zohran Mamdani’s “Sewer Socialism” Resonating? - After an unlikely political rise, New York’s Mayor has embraced a model of governance focussed on basic services—and making sure New Yorkers see it. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich - The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion - Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making - OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life, take their jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, they might believe you. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 TMZ Gets Political - The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians shirking their responsibility to the American people. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain - A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid - Her films rarely center on—or even acknowledge—her race, seemingly out of concern that focussing on identity might limit her characters’ emotional palettes. But why couldn’t it expand those palettes? (www.newyorker.com)