Caracal ITK | Oct. 5

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT

Misinformation is about to get so much worse: A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Saahil Desai

Cambodia’s prime minister is Zoombombing opposition meetings: Hun Sen’s government, which has shown little hesitation in quashing any sign of dissent, is taking control of user activities on the internet.
ROW

POLITICS

The largest autocracy on Earth: Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
Adrienne LaFrance

Why science can't settle political disputes: Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy, based on the belief that science is purified of politics, may be damaging democracy.
MIT Press Reader

DISRUPTION

Bad bosses: What’s wrong with labor algorithms
Knowledge @ Wharton

“When you have an algorithm as a boss, it’s a hard and at times even unforgiving supervisor.” -- Lindsey Cameron

COMMERCE

TikTok now has over 1 billion users: The company reached this milestone just 4 years after its 2017 launch, with its 2018 merger with Musical.ly and pandemic lockdowns accelerating its trajectory.

Ozy Media, once a darling of investors, shuts down in a swift unraveling: NYT reports the digital media start-up had come under scrutiny for its business practices after articles in The Times.

Google search's next phase: Context is king: Google says search is still far from solved.
The Verge

CULTURE

Why are people nostalgic for early-pandemic life? Pandemic fatigue is fueling a bizarre sense of longing.
Morgan Ome + Christian Paz

How Peyton and Eli Manning are changing television: An alternate ‘Monday Night Football’ becomes an instant hit on what was once a dull evening.
Jason Gay

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Caracal ITK | Oct. 4

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT

The age of America first: Washington’s flawed new foreign policy consensus.
Richard Haass

The transatlantic relationship descends into a food fight: America and Europe have competing visions of how to feed the world — and we could all be caught in the cross-fire.
Politico

China’s radical new vision of globalization: Xi’s vision of “dual circulation” is a darkly pessimistic economic strategy, fit for a new Cold War.
James Crabtree

POLITICS

Politico: Brexit is ‘going badly,’ say Brits in new poll

+ More than half of Britons think Brexit is “going badly” — and the number of people with that opinion is growing

DISRUPTION

How artificial intelligence completed Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony: On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released.
The Conversation

COMMERCE

Jony Ive teams up with Ferrari to develop electric car: Former Apple designer’s LoveFrom signs deal with Agnelli family’s Exor.
FT

Electric Motor City: Ford and General Motors fight it out to electrify: The switch to battery power is the latest showdown between Detroit’s heavyweights.
Economist

Innovating in existing markets: 3 lessons from LEGO: LEGO’s journey from market leader to the brink of bankruptcy and back yields valuable insights for companies seeking to revitalize mature products.
MIT

CULTURE

The redemption of a televangelist: For decades, the mascara-laden Tammy Faye was relentlessly mocked. Maybe America got her wrong.
Jonathan Merritt

+ There are around 71,000 wild horses in the United States, with the bulk of them in Nevada with 43,000

Why is every young person in America watching ‘The Sopranos’? The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: A parable about a country in terminal decline.
NYT

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Caracal ITK | Oct. 1

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT

Xi Jinping’s campaign: China’s new reality is rife with danger: The president will be defined by his campaign against his country’s capitalist excesses.
Economist

France’s humiliation by America will have lasting effects: Snubbed over subs, President Emmanuel Macron is even keener to build up European autonomy.
Economist

POLITICS

How Labour wins: If the right can do populism, why not the left?
Tim Stanley

+ "You can’t lose four elections and not change." -- Sir Keir Starmer when asked if he is moving the Labour party away from ‘the left.’

The Biden objectors who hold the 2022 election in their hands: Politico reports a quarter of those down on Biden's job performance say they "somewhat disapprove," helping his numbers slide — but also leaving Biden an opening.

+ The 2022 election cycle could see a record-breaking $8.9 billion spent on midterm ads, per a new report from AdImpact

DISRUPTION

The future of getting there: Sustainability is an enormous question for cities and governments around the world. Carmakers and others are busy coming up with ideas about what mobility-to-come might look like.
FT

Climate change is the new dot-com bubble: The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet. There's just one problem: We can't afford another bust.
Wired

COMMERCE

Apple is working on iPhone features to help detect depression, cognitive decline: Company is working with UCLA, Biogen to see if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns.
WSJ

How the “organic” label leaves small farmers out: The USDA’s requirements for organic labeling make it easier for large agri-business than the smaller farmers you’d think of as “organic.”
Sierra Garcia

CULTURE

Ma Yansong takes LA: How the quiet force behind George Lucas’ museum makes his mark
LAT

The real appeal of reality stars: Reality shows bring “ordinary people” into our homes as entertainment, presenting celebrities to us “cafeteria-style.”
JSTOR

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