The pier took two months and $320m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks' worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away for repairs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The things people come up with bbc.com/news/articles/…

INR is “almost always right.” How come nobody has heard of it? vox.com/future-perfect…

The right to an attorney is fundamental to the U.S. justice system. Yet, in a small Mississippi court off the interstate between Jackson and Memphis, that right is tenuous. propublica.org/article/this-m…

After Peloton's disastrous 'The Gift That Gives Back' ad in 2019, Ryan struck while the iron was hot.

Within days, Aviation Gin dropped 'The Gift That Doesn't Give Back,' featuring the same actress drowning her sorrows in gin.

The ad, of course, went viral, generating millions

(1) Fashion Island Mall, Newport Beach is fantastic place to assess the current Athleisure debate. $LULU, Rhone, Vuori, Alo, Athleta ( $GPS), and Fabletics all close to each other. It's also littered with the ghosts of formerly hyped but now dead brands such as Kit & Ace. Here

In a recent briefing, General (res.) Yaacov Amidror, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, explained the current situation in the Israel-Hamas war and on the Israel-Hezbollah border:🧵

“If you think this will only be in Israel, if we are arrogant enough, this could absolutely happen in America too and this is the moral of this story” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

“In Hollywood, the more you fake it, the more people actually buy it. You have the right car? You’re wearing the right suit? You know the right people? No one does the diligence.” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation nytimes.com/2024/05/28/cli…

Internal documentation for Google Search’s Content Warehouse API has leaked ipullrank.com/google-algo-le…

How the population of bacteria on a person's skin leaves traces on the clothes they wear—and how these traces last for months and can be used to uniquely identify the wearer phys.org/news/2024-05-m…

I’m Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix & 6 other companies.

This is my definition of success:

Exclusive: David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour by 16 women, which he strongly denies.

Our investigation, which began 5 years ago, examines allegations that include drugging and on-stage groping. More than half of the women we spoke to were

It looks like an invitation to a gender reveal party.

This is a neat tool for founders raising metal.so

Large pharma revenue growth comes largely from M&A. $XBI

Since its inception, the international criminal court has charged 50 people, 47 of whom were African theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Stock purchases by senate members generate abnormal returns... returns are higher if the senator has direct jurisdiction over the firm through committee assignments”

This isn’t just insider trading: traders think Senators have inside info, so they buy the stocks Senators trade!

Pro-Russian disinformation groups are exploiting the “very, very lax” rules on Telegram and there’s little the EU authorities can do about it bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics