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WorkWorkSummer box office 2024: what were the big winners and losers'There was a rather nasty chill in the air when the summer season officially kicked off back in early May. After last year’s Barbenheimer mania (the two films made almost $2.4bn combined) proved for the umpteenth time that yes, cinema really was back, the industry hoped and prayed that the historically most profitable few months of the year would once again pay off.
WorkWork WorkWork WorkHow the Tories Lost BritainNever mind that Truss was ultimately undone by her own policies: an ill-judged foray into Ronald Reagan-style, trickle-down tax cuts that frightened the financial markets, sent the British pound into a tailspin and provoked the kinds of warnings about financial instability from the International Monetary Fund normally issued to rogue regimes in Latin America. WorkOpinion | Joy Can Do More Than Beat TrumpI’m wondering if the mood is shifting again. I wonder if we’re on the front end of a change in national temperament that could be fatal for MAGA — if we’re leaving the era of the nasty snarl in favor of the broad smile. And it’s not just the Harris surge that’s made me wonder about this. WorkThe enemies within: How the pandemic radicalised Britain Editor’s note: For the first time, we are joining forces with our sister titles in Liverpool, Sheffield and Birmingham to publish a joint piece that tries to explain the violence we have seen in the past fortnight, perhaps the most widespread far-right disorder since the Second World War. It draws on the reporting we have done over the past few years, as well as our eyewitness accounts of some of the worst riots since the Southport stabbing. WorkHow Arizona's Maricopa County Became the Battleground for Election Conspiracies - The New Yorker (No paywall)On a stifling Monday evening in August, Loretta Siwik walked into a meeting of Arizona District 12 Democrats in a suburb south of Phoenix. Siwik considers herself a "McCain Republican," but, as the Party continued to embrace Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election had been stolen, she told me that she was "exploring." "I don't like the idea of a conspiracy," she said. "It makes people too anxious." The meeting took place at the Pecos Senior Center, a fluorescent-lit room dotted with signs promoting multigenerational bingo and beginner bridge classes. By six-thirty, the room was crowded with about a hundred people. A woman wearing a shirt that read "We may not be perfect, but they're nuts: Vote Democrat" circulated a sign-in sheet. There was a feeling of cautious optimism in the air. The Cook Political Report had recently shifted the Presidential race in Arizona from "Lean Republican" to "Toss Up." Days earlier, a Kamala Harris-Tim Walz rally in Glendale had drawn huge crowds. "It was a little bit like a rock concert," one attendee told me. "We started out with this 'We'll do the best we can' attitude, but now we think we can win this." WorkOpinion | The High Price of Safety in El SalvadorEarlier this summer, thanks to a free ride on a bus sent by the government, Mr. del Cid and his neighbors joined the adoring crowd outside the National Palace to witness Mr. Bukele’s inauguration. This second term is both legally indefensible (El Salvador’s Constitution bans consecutive re-election) and, like the president himself, wildly popular (he won by a landslide). Mr. Bukele took the occasion to warn people not to complain about the “bitter medicine” coming their way. This is one of his favorite catchphrases — and he means it. Work WorkWorkThoughts on the Durov arrestBREAKING: #Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested by French authorities.Early official comments to French media suggest this follows from France's displeasure with Telegram's moderation & compliance with official requests(?).If so, I'm pretty sure this is an unprecedented action… pic.twitter.com/hKa1Ip0buD Work9 Weird Symptoms Cardiologists Say You Should Never IgnoreIf a middle-aged man starts clutching his chest, sweating profusely, and gasping for air, everyone knows he's probably having a heart attack. It’s the “Bollywood drama” depiction of heart problems, says Dr. Basel Ramlawi, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Main Line Health in Philadelphia. “It’s the most dramatic way—but not the most common way—in which patients present.” WorkWhy inflation fell without a recession - The Economist (No paywall)AT THEIR annual retreat in Jackson Hole, central bankers celebrated the fall of inflation. But do they deserve the credit? In the rich world, annual price rises in the median country are down from a peak of about 10% in early 2022 to below 3% today. Remarkably, this has been achieved without deep recessions. The Federal Reserve will probably soon join central banks in Europe in cutting interest rates, bond yields have fallen sharply since the summer and stockmarkets have shrugged off a growth scare that struck at the start of August. America’s economy was bigger in the second quarter of 2024 than was forecast before the covid-19 pandemic struck. WorkHow Does Mpox Spread, and Who Is Most at Risk?Scientists are continuing to investigate when people are contagious. Some people can spread mpox days before they feel ill. No evidence to date indicates that people who never develop symptoms can spread the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WorkMiddle East crisis live: Israeli troops claim five Palestinian militants killed at mosque in West Bank operationYemen’s Houthi group has agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to access a damaged crude oil tanker in the Red Sea, Iran’s mission to the United Nations said, after the Iranian-aligned militants attacked the Greek-flagged vessel last week. The Sounion tanker is carrying 150,000 tonnes, or 1m barrels, of crude oil and poses an environmental hazard, shipping officials said. Any spill has the potential to be among the largest from a ship in recorded history. WorkAppliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to RepairLobbying groups across most of the device manufacturing industry—from tractor manufacturers to companies that make fridges, consumer devices, motorcycles, and medical equipment—are lobbying against legislation that would require military contractors to make it easier for the U.S. military to fix the equipment they buy, according to a document obtained by 404 Media. WorkWorkWhat Is Post-Quantum Cryptography?
WorkWorkWorkThis ancient disease still kills 1 million people every yearIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce. WorkAsian Men Are Finally Starting to Get the Girl (or Guy)Indeed, since the 2018 blockbuster “Crazy Rich Asians” became a box office hit, Asian and Asian American stories and characters have proliferated in American pop culture. And after decades of degrading, often emasculating portrayals, Asian and Asian American men like Booster have been at the center of the new work, often playing the sort of hunky hero parts that Hollywood long kept out of reach. |
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YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news - The Economist (No paywall)
 Salam madior fall has been a pioneer more than once. In 1999, while studying in America, he and a friend founded Seneweb, one of the first websites devoted to news from Senegal, his home. By 2002 Seneweb was the most visited news site in Francophone Africa. In the late 2000s, media firms there still focused on satellite television. Mr Fall thought that setting up “a fully-fledged tv channel would be going backwards”. So in 2012 he started putting news videos on YouTube. Today, Seneweb’s headquarters in Dakar has more than 100 employees, plans to expand across West Africa, and has correspondents as far afield as Europe and America.
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WorkAfter a Big Week for Democrats, One Good Day for TrumpHe seemed almost chipper (at least more chipper than the night before, when he called into Fox News with his initial meandering reviews of Ms. Harris’s big speech). He talked about how the restaurant’s owner had started as a dishwasher and worked his way up, and joked with him about how he must have lots of cash now. The owner compared Mr. Trump to Ronald Reagan. “Thank you, Javier,” said Mr. Trump, looking touched. Work
WorkWorkWhy Harris's Barrier-Breaking Bid Feels Nothing Like Hillary Clinton's“This is a time where the rights of women are fundamentally under attack as it relates to abortion, I.V.F., when and how to have a family,” said Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California and a close Harris ally. “It’s not about minimizing the importance of race or gender. It is about appreciating that in this moment in the history of our country, this election is bigger than anybody’s race or gender.” WorkWorkFrom In the Dark: What Happened That Day in Haditha? - The New Yorker (No paywall)This program is drawn from a new season of the award-winning investigative podcast In the Dark. On a November day in 2005, in the city of Haditha, Iraq, something terrible happened. “Depending on whose story you believed, the killings were a war crime, a murder,” the lead reporter Madeleine Baran says. “Or they were a legitimate combat action and the victims were collateral damage. Or the killings were a tragic mistake, unintentional—sad, but not criminal. Basically, the only thing that everyone could agree on was that twenty-four people had died, and it was Marines who’d killed them.” Season 3 of In the Dark looks at what happened that day in Haditha, and why no one was held accountable for the killings. Baran and her team travelled to twenty-one states and three continents over the course of four years to report on a story that the world had largely forgotten. Episode 1 airs this week on The New Yorker Radio Hour, and you can listen to the rest of the series wherever you get your podcasts. Work5 Moments That Make or Break a CEO-Board Chair Relationship - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)What distinguishes an effective CEO-board chair relationship? According to a Spencer Stuart survey of nearly 200 directors and 30 CEOs of S&P 500 companies, trust is the most critical factor. Chairs and CEOs build trust over time by being vulnerable, open, and transparent about their expectations and challenges — particularly in five moments: 1) when negotiating CEO compensation; 2) during the annual CEO evaluation; 3) when giving feedback from executive sessions of the board; 4) when boards consider their own composition and succession; and 5) in moments of adversity. WorkYou Might Think More Police Surveillance Means More Safety. There Are Several Problems With That.Across the United States, cities are spending a larger share of the money at their disposal buying and deploying surveillance technology. From cameras to A.I.–enhanced microphones, and from automated license plate readers to drones and robots, cities are responding to cries for more safety with security theater. This might lead to a few extra arrests, but it does little to create sustainable safety. Forcing residents in neighborhoods with higher crime rates to live under constant, all-seeing digital scrutiny will neither make people safer from the systematic harms they face, including police violence, nor patch up their rocky relationship with the police who are sworn to protect and serve them. WorkAfter Kennedy's Endorsement of Trump, the Two Signal a New AllianceStill, Mr. Trump and his allies on Friday relished the fact that the former president had won the backing of a member of America’s most storied Democratic family, albeit one who has had many of his relatives denounce him and his endorsement of Mr. Trump. Of all the outlandish political news stories of the summer, mused Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, which helped organize the rally, “maybe most remarkable of all: A Kennedy has endorsed a Republican.” WorkTrump's Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off ScriptHe openly rejected advice from allies to limit his personal attacks on Ms. Harris and other Democrats during a speech on Wednesday in North Carolina. He called the nation’s first Black vice president “lazy” during a stop in Arizona on Thursday afternoon and, that night, rambled during a 10-minute phone call with Fox News. The anchors ultimately cut him off and ended the interview, but Mr. Trump picked up where he had left off by quickly phoning into Newsmax. WorkWork WorkAlain Delon to be buried in grounds of his estate in 'strictest privacy'Identified with French cinema's resurgence in the 1960s, Delon starred in a string of classic films such as Plein Soleil, Le Samouraï and Rocco and His Brothers. Once a familiar face in Douchy, he had not been seen in the village for several years after he suffered a stroke in 2019 and was diagnosed with a slow-developing lymphoma in 2022. WorkRegulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good - The Economist (No paywall)“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL 9000, the murderous computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of many examples in science fiction of an artificial intelligence (AI) that outwits its human creators with deadly consequences. Recent progress in AI, notably the release of ChatGPT, has pushed the question of “existential risk” up the international agenda. In March 2023 a host of tech luminaries, including Elon Musk, called for a pause of at least six months in the development of AI over safety concerns. At an AI-safety summit in Britain last autumn, politicians and boffins discussed how best to regulate this potentially dangerous technology. 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