After Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, Singapore’s GDP increased by 0.2%. Do concerts have such substantial economic implications and are Southeast Asia’s ‘competition states’ jostling to attract the investment and growth opportunities that come with them?
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Nate Wilcox recently wrote about the signal to noise ratio in the information we receive:
Coming in a context of other tweets about Germany’s up is down policies declaring Jews who oppose genocide in Palestine to be anti-semites, a nominally left wing publication disinforming their readers about Brazil’s Lula, relentless economic gaslighting, a seemingly cooked-up online conflict between Black Americans and Palestinians, and the MI6 blaming Russia for the UK’s recent racist pogroms…
The Pentagon buzzword can apply to anything from missiles to pepperoni pizzas inside the military — while papering over the corpses that “lethality” produces.
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Dear Citizens,
In light of recent political parlance, we are announcing that we are no longer trying to keep our city “weird.” We realize that this statement contradicts the campaign we have spent the past two decades and thousands of taxpayers’ dollars advocating for our city’s weirdness via novelty bumper stickers that look great on the back of a Subaru. But we didn’t mean it like that.
We could never have foreseen that the word we chose to affirm our city’s quirky charm in the battle against corporate gentrification would be lobbied at a convicted felon and his spineless running mate. The early aughts were a much simpler time, when “weird” simply meant putting bacon on everything and not having sex with a sofa. We certainly didn’t have that one on our predictive bingo cards, and we were really into bingo, in a counterculture sort of way.
How we learned to sort true from false in medicine.
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The Department of Homeland Security wants to use face recognition technology on drivers and passengers approaching the border.
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New York University students who speak out against Zionism will now risk violating the school’s nondiscrimination policies.
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