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☆ Something is up with Spotify Wrapped's new feature — it's telling way too many people they belong in Burlington, Vermont
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

People first started noticing the trend on social media — when everyone started posting their Spotify Wrapped, as is tradition — and thought it was a glitch on Spotify's end. But it turns out that Burlington is just representative of the listening habits of a disproportionately high number of Spotify users. Advertisement"Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay," Queer outlet Them wrote, referencing how queer Spotify users seemed to be getting overwhelmingly assigned to Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge. Berkeley was the Sound Town for 0.3% of all Spotify users, while 0.1% of users were assigned to Cambridge, Spotify told BI.

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☆ Who you follow on Instagram could be costing you dates
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

There weren't just girls close to their circle, but influencers, models, and pornstars, she told Business Insider. Someone, often a straight man (but not always), has an Instagram following list flooded with random, beautiful, scantily-clad women they don't even know. But dating experts told Business Insider that digging your heels in will naturally strike up questions and even red flags to potential partners. "There are absolutely guys who go overboard here," Blaine Anderson, a dating coach for men, told Business Insider. I do not expect whoever I'm with to not be attracted to other people — of course," Seposyan told Business Insider.

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☆ Scott Shleifer steered billions into startups for Tiger Global. With his reign now over, the industry wonders what's next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Few investors are more emblematic of the no-interest-rate private market frenzy than billionaire Scott Shleifer. Tiger's venture approach in 2020 and 2021 — constantly described as unsustainable by rivals — included maneuvers such as offering start-ups more money than they were asking and emailing founders term sheets after a single meeting. Shleifer's reputation and personal wealth grew with Tiger's venture success. As Tiger was fundraising late last year, investors learned of a $10 million settlement Tiger Global made to a former female employee. At least one Tiger investor was surprised to hear about it from Coleman and not Shleifer himself.

Persons: Scott Shleifer, —, Chase Coleman, Donald Trump's, Michael Gross, Tiger, Bain, John Curtius, Shleifer, Eric Lane, Evan Feinberg, Griffin Schroeder, Coleman, Sarah Samuels, Samuels, Scott, OpenAI's, Sam Altman's, Altman, Paul Graham Organizations: longtime Tiger Global, Business, Tiger, Walmart, The, Washington Post Locations: Florida, India, Flipkart, New York

☆ 2024 Corvette E-Ray: The Quickest ’Vette Ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Dan Neil | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ZOOM SERVICE The 2024 Corvette E-Ray is the company’s first hybrid model and the first with all-wheel-drive, courtesy of permanent-magnet motor (160 hp/125 lb ft) between the front wheels, paired with a mid-mounted 6.2-liter, 495-hp V8 and eight-speed transmission. Photo: ChevroletON A RECENT TRIP to Los Angeles, I spent a day being awesome in the new, unseemly civilized Corvette E-Ray, Chevrolet’s first hybrid-powered Corvette and the first with winter-worthy all-wheel drive. For Canadians, Christmas came early this year. The E-Ray has the distinction of being not only the most vigorously accelerating ’Vette in history; it is also, weirdly, the most refined, versatile, usable and commodious. Our test car—in the 3LZ trim package ($123,705, as tested)—was a leather-wrapped luxury launch, buoyed on the adaptive suspension and supple, multi-mode magnetic dampers.

Persons: Ray, Chevrolet’s, Christmas, — Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Opinion | The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In my reporting, the best explanation I’ve heard for the board’s decision, as poorly communicated as it was, is that it fired Altman for the precise reason it said it fired Altman. “It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global LLC in the spirit of a donation,” it warned. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, didn’t have the power to stop OpenAI’s board from firing Altman, but he did have the power to render the action hollow. He announced a new advanced innovations division, to be led by Altman (and the OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who resigned in solidarity with Altman) and staffed by any OpenAI employees who’d like to join. By Wednesday, Altman was back as chief executive of OpenAI and all but one of the board members had resigned.

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☆ Chaos at OpenAI ensues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the continued fallout from the shocking Sam Altman ouster at OpenAI. Altman is alive and well, but his run as CEO of OpenAI ended abruptly on Friday. But in the days since his firing, he's escaped a messy weekend looking like the ultimate hero, Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos writes. To be fair, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear don't seem to know why either. Meanwhile, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is already actively recruiting OpenAI employees on X.

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☆ From black gold to green power: Texas, weirdly, is leading America's clean energy future
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

John DavisDeals like Davis' have made Texas — America's oil capital for more than a century — the top producer of renewable energy in the US. The state has long generated the most wind power and is second only to California as a solar-energy producer. The high-stakes battle for Texas' energy future is a microcosm of how tricky America's green transition is shaping up to be, especially when politics are involved. Slowing down renewable energy could cost Texas in the long term, both economically and socially. The coalition seems to be growing stronger, even as Texas politicians shift further to the right on issues beyond renewable energy.

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☆ Opinion: No one needed another Napoleon movie, but this one has something unexpected to say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Napoleon, played by Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, is a talented young officer whose military victories quickly vault him into influence and power. The fact that Napoleon can’t live up to his own larger-than-life image is part of what makes Napoleon larger than life. There are obvious differences between Trump and Napoleon — Trump avoided the draft and was not a successful general; Napoleon was never elected and conquered large parts of Europe; Trump’s coup attempt was unsuccessful. “Napoleon” suggests that our fascination with grotesque populist windbags is itself a source of their power. Napoleon might not love this movie, but he’d surely enjoy seeing his face blown up there on the big screen.

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How do you sift through Mexico City’s roughly 57,000 places to eat — more than twice as many as there are in New York City — and choose the most essential dishes? “In a city like Mexico City, how do you narrow it down? Or weirdly French,” says Valdivia Nakatani) and appeared designed to appeal to the recent stampede of expats. Nostalgia came up a lot in our conversation, but that’s not to say that innovation was overlooked entirely. Consider it an inspiration to make your own, and you’ll see just how absurd and deeply gratifying an exercise it can be.

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☆ American forces in the Middle East are constantly under attack, but they aren't really retaliating. Here's why the US holds its fire.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Iran-backed groups have launched dozens of attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria since October 17. Middle East security experts say there are a number of reasons why the US is holding its fire. Attacks on US forces by Iran-backed groups in the region are not a new phenomenon. The Pentagon has only publicly confirmed a single incident of retaliation against the Iran-backed militias. Right now, US officials stress that deterrence — signaled by the massive movement of American combat power into the region — is working, and the Iran-backed attacks on American forces have been unsuccessful.

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☆ Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Two experts explain how long it could take until fusion power plants are possible. Fusion plants could theoretically produce almost 4 million times as much energy as burning coal or oil — with none of the carbon emissions. It's what Andrew Christlieb, who is part of a US Department of Energy fusion project at Michigan State University, calls "step zero." The US Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences program has a $763 million budget for 2023, which could grow to over $1 billion next year. Achieving commercial fusion power in two decades won't be quick enough to address many countries' goals of adapting clean energy and limiting global warming by 2035.

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☆ Opinion | The Conflicted Legacy of Mitt Romney
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After factional infighting dominated the G.O.P.’s struggle to elect a House speaker, it feels weirdly quaint to revisit Mitt Romney’s career. He’s served as governor, U.S. senator and presidential nominee for a Republican Party now nearly unrecognizable from what it was when he started out. At the end of his time in public office, Romney has found a new clarity in his identity as the consummate institutionalist in an increasingly anti-constitutionalist party. In this resulting biography “Romney: A Reckoning,” Coppins pushes Romney to wrestle with his own role — even complicity — in what his party has become. In this conversation, guest host Carlos Lozada and Coppins examine Romney’s legacy at a time when it may seem increasingly out of place with the mainstream G.O.P.

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☆ Sam Bankman-Fried said he had to teach himself human facial expressions, like smiling
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Bankman-Fried had to teach himself how to make facial expressions, Michael Lewis writes in his new book. The FTX cofounder questioned the whole point of making facial expressions in the first place, Lewis said. "One is facial expressions. Lewis writes that Bankman-Fried questioned the entire premise behind making facial expressions entirely: "What's the whole point of making facial expressions in the first place? AdvertisementAdvertisementBankman-Fried apparently found comfort at math camp, where "people didn't seem to care about his lack of facial expressions," and with childhood friend Matt Nass, who "didn't need Sam to generate facial expressions or ask him questions about himself."

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, Michael Lewis, Lewis, FTX, —, Matt Nass, Sam, Caroline Ellison, Ellison, JANE ROSENBERG Organizations: Service, Alameda Research, Bankman, Reuters Locations: New York, FTX, Bahamas

☆ The pilot of an F-35 that weirdly went missing ended up parachuting into someone's backyard after ejecting
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The pilot of the F-35 fighter jet that went missing ejected and landed in the backyard of a South Carolina home. The Associated Press reported that the pilot parachuted safely into the backyard on Sunday. The pilot was forced to eject from the F-35B Lightning II jet during a training mishap. Local news outlet WMBF reported parts of the aircraft were found near Bartells Road in Indiantown, South Carolina. AdvertisementAdvertisementBefore the jet was found, the US military called on help from the public to locate the missing aircraft.

Persons: Jeremy Huggins Organizations: Associated Press, Service, Marine Corps, Charleston International Airport, AP, Emergency, Services, Base, NBC News Locations: South Carolina, Wall, Silicon, pilotless, Charleston, Joint Base, Bartells, Indiantown , South Carolina

☆ Pence and other 2024 Republicans zero in on China to demonstrate foreign policy chops
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Daniel Strauss | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“China is the greatest strategic and economic threat facing the United States in the 21st century,” Pence said in his speech at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. For months, China as a foreign policy adversary has been the favored topic of Republican primary candidates. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations, made a point of spelling out how adversarial the relationship between the United States and China has become. “Yes, I view China as an enemy.”Haley has also used China as a way to frame Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as weak and incompetent. During the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump dug in against criticism directed at him for calling the coronavirus the “China virus.”Trump has used China to argue he has done more than other administrations.

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☆ Opinion | Wonking Out: Time, Memory and Inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Almost all the available evidence suggests that the U.S. economy is achieving what many economists had thought impossible — a soft landing in which inflation returns to acceptable levels without a recession. Yet polls suggest that the public remains very down on the state of the economy. Some commentators, however, are strenuously — I might even say weirdly — opposed to considering this possibility, which I find hard to understand. After all, we know that views about the state of the economy are marked by huge partisan differences. However, when it comes to one important issue, inflation, I think there’s a way to look at the situation that makes sense of the divergence between economists — who are almost giddy over the speed with which inflation has come down — and the broader public, which still says that inflation is getting worse.

Persons: — Locations: U.S

☆ Opinion | Winners and Losers of the First Republican Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

Welcome to Opinion’s commentary for the first Republican presidential primary candidate debate, held in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. Gail Collins: She seemed generally reasonable and wow, when the debate turned to education and she actually brought up reading. If there’s any life left in the old G.O.P., Haley gave it hope. Perhaps more important, in taking on the glib and callow Ramaswamy on Ukraine, she showed anger and dominance, essential qualities in a Republican debate. Any debate that doesn’t feature Chris Christie at the front of the highlight reel is a bad night for Christie.

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☆ Opinion | Mark Meadows Is Everywhere and Nowhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Katherine Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The image of Mr. Meadows somewhere surreal and incorrect, and only partially visible, is a fitting one. And in the audio where Mr. Trump jokes about classified documents and ruffles papers around, he’s reportedly talking to Mr. Meadows’s ghost writer. Then, later in the day, he contradicted his remark to say that Mr. Trump was “doing very well.”Why did he do any of this? At the time, the writer Tim Alberta noted various theories: Was Mr. Trump actually in bad shape inside the hospital, and Mr. Meadows thought people should know? Was Mr. Meadows overwhelmed?

Persons: he’s, Ginni, Donald Trump Jr, Cassidy Hutchinson, Meadows’s, Trump, Meadows, Trump’s, Walter, “, Tim Alberta Organizations: Fox News, Trump White House, Walter Reed National Military Medical

☆ A weirdly wobbly 'muon' particle might revolutionize physics by revealing a 5th force of nature or another dimension
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A subatomic particle called the muon is wobbling far more than leading physics models can explain. Its unusual behavior could be evidence of a fifth force of nature or a new dimension. And the reason could be evidence of a new, fifth force of nature. But there are still cosmic wonders we don't understand — mysteries that the discovery of a fifth force of nature may help solve. One possible explanation is that the muons' behavior is dictated by a fifth force of nature.

Persons: Aylin Woodward, Einstein, Rosen, Brendan Casey, Graziano Venanzoni Organizations: Service, Fermi, Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Lab Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ How different kinds of investors can approach this August market pullback
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Or are the stocks that are now hated going to turn out to be precursors of the next downturn? Of all the techs I follow, I think ServiceNow probably had the best quarter. We know what to pay when we think a stock is going up, which is the going price. Next thing you know that stock is down to $143 and you say to yourself, should I buy it back? In that case, you need to sell stocks pretty aggressively until we get oversold, raising cash to 10% like us.

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☆ They had a teenage summer romance. Here’s what happened when they reunited years later
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

The summer Andrea first crossed paths with Lewis Kelly. He seemed aloof, “a loner,” as Andrea thought back then. When Andrea didn’t hear from him, she assumed he’d forgotten about her. “We’re so cute.”Then, as the date of his arrival got ever closer, Andrea started doubting herself. “I just want to make it work and be with you.”At this, Andrea started crying.

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☆ A Multiracial, Hip-Hop-and-Bluegrass Band Wants to Fix Hate in America - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The free publicity, complete with an online post by Donald Trump, spurred a surge in record sales. I recently spent two days with Gangstagrass, a band that is making music that actually unites us, and reflecting on why it isn’t better known. A version of the group produced the theme song of the TV drama “Justified.” (The song, “Long Hard Times to Come,” was nominated for an Emmy in 2010.) The multiracial band was created by Rench, a Brooklyn-based musician and producer. When he isn’t making music, Mr. Whitener is a stay-at-home dad.

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REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoLOS ANGELES, July 19 (Reuters) - Margot Robbie recalls being at a rehearsal for the upcoming "Barbie" movie and experiencing an existential crisis. "So I was like, ‘I've got to make this movie and it's the biggest movie I've ever produced, and I've got to answer to two humongous corporations and a director I really respect and actors."" Similar to Robbie's existential crisis, the "Barbie" movie follows the doll who suddenly has an existential crisis in the middle of a dance number. Even though the Barbie doll first debuted in 1959, it has taken more than 60 years for the character to get to the big screen. It's kind of for everyone," he told Reuters during the "Barbie" world premiere in Los Angeles.

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☆ How to save San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

But treating San Francisco as some sort of outlier, a sui generis example of urban decay, is wrong, too. After I washed out back there I washed up on the Embarcadero, a typical San Francisco story. Because here's my one crazy trick to fix San Francisco: homes. Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThis is just a matter of good old-fashioned supply and demand. To revive the city, San Francisco needs to get back to its freak-flag-flying roots.

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☆ San Francisco’s ‘doom loop’ is a warning for every American city. Here’s how we can fix it — before it’s too late.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

If you want to rile up a San Francisco native, mention the doom loop. But treating San Francisco as some sort of outlier, a sui generis example of urban decay, is wrong, too. After I washed out back there I washed up on the Embarcadero, a typical San Francisco story. Because here's my one crazy trick to fix San Francisco: homes. To revive the city, San Francisco needs to get back to its freak-flag-flying roots.

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