09-23 Eight and Skate. Today’s iteration of the United Auto Workers—now on a decisive strike—is both a renewal of an old tradition and a new creation. (www.nybooks.com)
09-22 Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk: If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match (www.theguardian.com)
09-22 Are we destined for a zero-sum future? A backdrop of slower economic growth may be shaping attitudes of tomorrow that cut across political divides (www.ft.com)
09-23 There is a man in India who held his arm up one day and decided to keep it there. Almost 50 years later, his arm is still in the air. (old.reddit.com)
01:04 20 y/o Mike Tyson in his most terrifying prime vs virtually unknown José Ribalta. Tyson's previous four fights lasted 5 rounds total. Ribalta lasted 10 Rounds, taking 200+ blows that each could've killed a normal human. Tyson credits Ribalta as the toughest man he ever faced. (youtu.be)
05:18 Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight (fortune.com)
09-23 Tinder thinks some people will pay almost $500 a month for more 'efficient ways to find connections' with its 'VIP' plan (www.businessinsider.com)
09-23 Tata Projects bags contract to build Micron's $2.75 billion and India's first semiconductor plant, While Tata electronics planning to enter semiconductor manufacturing (www.thehindubusinessline.com)
01:40 Is there an argument in metaphysics about what in physics is called 'Superdeterminism': all events are connected in some way through a complex web of cause and effects? (www.reddit.com)
09-23 Gen Z is souring on college degrees as a path to success, sociology professor says. They have a good reason: Skills-based hiring is the way of the future (finance.yahoo.com)
09-23 Billionaire investor Bill Gross warns of more pain for bond investors with fixed-income on track for unprecedented 3-year slump (finance.yahoo.com)
09-23 Stocks are 'pretty overvalued' – and a recession is likely to hit in the next 9 months, says billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach (finance.yahoo.com)
06:39 Does “Girl Dinner” kind of… sound misogynistic to anyone else?? xD (Link in description for what that means btw). Am I the only one who feels this way? (www.reddit.com)
09-23 Have you ever felt that you are totally anti-religious to the point you could be accused of offending religious feelings or even xenophobia? (www.reddit.com)
09-23 What do you think about the study that showed that kids raised by single fathers grow up the same way as kids with both parents do, while kids raised by single mothers show the effects of the other parent being absent? I'll add the content in the comments (www.reddit.com)
09-23 Something I noticed in Legend of Korra, RWBY, and a lot of other shows. A male villain does a ton of bad things, people call him misunderstood or complicated. A female character does one single bad thing, and people claim she's the worst character ever. She doesn't even have to be a villain (old.reddit.com)
09-23 At some point, Ubuntu will be entirely snap-based including its core. I believe Ubuntu-based distros (Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, elementary OS...) should change to a Debian based system. (www.reddit.com)
09-23 Which War Does Washington Want? - As Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, lobbied Congress for more war-related aid, House Republicans continued to fight their own battle over government spending. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 A Novel About the Therapeutic Impulse and Its Discontents - “Loved and Missed” is a seductive, clear-eyed account of the delights and dangers of caring for others. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 The Last Gun I Shot - As a Texan, as an American, I believed that I wouldn’t be able to understand where I lived unless I wrapped my head around the guns themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 “Early Short Films of the French New Wave” Is a Revelation - A two-disk set is an opportunity to appreciate underappreciated talents and the cultural policies that nurtured them. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 The Biden Administration’s Next Big Climate Decision - The liquefied-natural-gas buildout—and fossil-fuel exports—challenge progress on global warming. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 Kelly Clarkson on “Chemistry,” Her Divorce Record - The singer tells the staff writer Hanif Abdurraqib about chronicling the end of a marriage in real time. Plus, the novelist Hernan Diaz, and Robert Samuels on figure skating. (www.newyorker.com)
09-23 Rupert Murdoch Takes a Step Back—Not Away - Although the media mogul announced that his son Lachlan will become the chair of News Corp. and Fox Corp., he was also careful to quash speculation that he would be retiring. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Zelensky Offers to Broker Peace Deal Between Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans - The Ukrainian President warned that an escalation in the fighting in Washington could spread to neighboring regions such as Maryland and Virginia. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 22nd - “There’s four antique stores, three quirky cafés, one store that only sells socks, and one store that only sells socks and maple syrup, and nothing opens till noon.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 The Real Message of “The Real Housewives” - Since the show’s rise during the Great Recession, it has fulfilled a pedagogical role in women’s media. The lesson it imparts is: you better work, bitch. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Questions from Florida’s Newly Adopted Classic Learning Test - Jane owns 12 guns. Jimmy owns 23 guns. Fred owns 128 guns. Who is the coolest? (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 The New York Film Festival Kicks Off - Plus: Fall for Dance, a seedy new Wolfgang Tillmans show, the violinist Joshua Bell, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Inner Turmoil Meets Atmospheric Turbulence in “AIRHOSTESS-737” - A flight attendant tries to conceal physical and emotional pain with a coat of bright-red lipstick, in Thanasis Neofotistos’s short film. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 House Republicans Refuse to Host Zelensky Because They’re Too Busy Fighting One Another - Reflections on a day of self-parody on Capitol Hill. (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Sikh Separatism and the Brewing Conflict Between Canada and India - Did India carry out or abet the assassination of a Sikh leader on Canadian soil? (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 Rishi Sunak’s Self-Serving Climate Retreat - The British Prime Minister has rolled back the country’s policies on reducing emissions. To what end? (www.newyorker.com)
09-22 “Swing State” and “Dig” Put Down Roots Off Broadway - Rebecca Gilman and Theresa Rebeck use plants as metaphors for human flourishing in their latest works. (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 The Replacements Are Still a Puzzle - The reissue of “Tim” shows both the prescience and the unrealized promise of the beloved band. (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 Introducing: Critics at Large - On a new culture podcast, The New Yorker’s critics take on some of the defining texts of our era, from Rushdie to “The Real Housewives.” (www.newyorker.com)
09-21 How New York, a City of Immigrants, Became Home to a Migrant Crisis - Eric Lach discusses why Eric Adams—who once personally welcomed buses of asylum seekers at the Port Authority—is now saying that migrants are going to “destroy New York City.” (www.newyorker.com)
00:10 FTX was a family business fraud . His mother received tens of millions through her PAC. His father advised on tax law, for "free"(& later for $1M). Even his sister was a "consultant". Also, SBF effectively said he has no idea how a $14M "company" property was titled to his parents. (www.reddit.com)