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☆ At the P.G.A. Championship, Justin Thomas Looks for Last Year’s Magic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Bill Pennington | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Five years ago, when Justin Thomas came to the 2018 P.G.A. Thomas was 25 and the winner of one major championship. Championship as the defending champion. Championship in Tulsa, Okla., Thomas has endured the bumpy, maddening irregularity typical of any golf career (amateur or professional). A month earlier, he stumbled to a tie for 60th at the Players Championship, an event he won two years ago.

☆ No, you can’t ride a lion on safari — why more companies are telling travelers ‘no’ these days
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Monica Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

It's one of the dirtiest words in hospitality — and travelers may be hearing it more these days. The travel agency Discover Africa had to say it when potential clients asked if their young son could ride a lion while on safari. "When we said no to riding a lion, the guest asked what other wild animals he could ride," said Susan Swanepoel, a senior travel consultant at Discover Africa. There was the Japanese company that wanted Japanese food, prepared with Japanese ingredients by Japanese chefs, for some 6,000 guests for six weeks surrounding the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. They wanted me to get hold of the camp manager to go to their tent to change the pillows around for them."

☆ Threat of TikTok ban has creators scrambling to build followings on Instagram, YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Politicians have been threatening a nationwide TikTok ban unless ByteDance sells its stake in the app, a move China said it "strongly" opposed. "That's the power of TikTok," Spangler said, adding that the app drives the majority of sales for his business, The Good Chad. Olivier Douliery | Afp | Getty ImagesIn April, Montana legislators approved a bill that would ban TikTok from being offered in the state starting next year. Creators are turning to other platformsVivian Tu, who lives in Miami, has been preparing for a possible TikTok ban by working to build her audience and diversify her content across multiple platforms. With the looming threat of a TikTok ban, Foster said she's been sharing content across Instagram, YouTube and Twitter to try to expand her following.

☆ Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Amy X. Wang | Grant Cornett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship. What if, Thomas Hobbes wondered, someone rustled up a second boat out of the discarded planks; would you now have two original vessels? Not long ago, I found myself wandering through Paris with a fake Celine handbag slung over my shoulder. In France, a country that prides itself on originating so much of the world’s fashion, punishments for counterfeiting are severe, to the point that I technically risked three years in prison just by carrying my little knockoff around. My plunge into the world of fantastically realistic counterfeit purses — known as “superfakes” to vexed fashion houses and I.P.

☆ How Freeing Ukraine’s Trapped Grain Rankled Farmers Elsewhere in Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Patricia Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In Britain, food prices were up 19 percent last month from the previous year. In Spain, farmers are worried that a lack of rainfall will irreversibly damage wheat and barley production. Now, to quell the rising discord, the European Union is considering a temporary ban on grain imports to five nations. The combination of spiraling prices for consumers in one part of the world and plummeting incomes for farmers in another illustrates the maddening complexities of the global food market. But the war in Ukraine threatened to seriously worsen the crisis by reducing the country’s grain exports and driving up food and fertilizer prices.

☆ How a pro skateboarder went from making $800 a month to being a financially independent real-estate mogul with a portfolio worth millions
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Mikey Taylor started his career as a professional skateboarder making barely enough money to get by. He now runs a real-estate fund and educates investors on how to create a road to financial freedom. "There was a part of skateboarding that really changed the way I looked at the world," Taylor told Insider. "One hundred grand as a professional skateboarder doesn't feel like one hundred grand in a more conventional career because our careers are so short," Taylor told Insider. Setting the groundwork for his life after skateboarding, Taylor started investing in the stock market and bonds at age 20.

☆ The new normal on Twitter: watching it break
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

When he would check his notifications tab on Twitter, Sinker, who has tens of thousands of followers, often saw the platform recommend the same weeks-old tweet from another user. Probably, but it becomes a less sure thing with each bit that falls off,” Sinker, a writer who has been on Twitter since 2007, told CNN. But in trying to cut his way to profitability, Musk risks making Twitter a less viable service. Weeks earlier, Twitter users encountered other various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts. After some publications pointed out the sudden surge in Musk posts in users’ feeds last month, the Twitter CEO responded: “Please stay tuned while we make adjustments.”

☆ Silicon Valley Bank gave the tech industry 40 years. The tech industry couldn't give Silicon Valley Bank 40 hours.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by regulators on Friday. Venture capital firms were quick to turn their back on the bank that has served them for decades. As one VC put it to Insider's Ben Bergman, "I don't think Silicon Valley Bank is going under, but I also don't want to be the last one holding the bag." Now, the consequences have extended beyond just SVB, as startups that used the bank worry whether they'll even make payroll next week. A bank that catered to tech startups' specific wants and needs is now gone.

☆ Infected in the first wave, they navigated long COVID without a roadmap
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Julie Steenhuysen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Three years later, at least 65 million people worldwide are estimated to have long COVID, according to an evidence review published last month in Nature Reviews Microbiology. An analysis of thousands of health records by the RECOVER trial found that non-Hispanic white women in wealthier areas were more likely than others to have a long COVID diagnosis. Researchers said that likely reflected disparities in access to healthcare, and suggests that many cases of long COVID among people of color are not being diagnosed. She has since been diagnosed with long COVID and can no longer work. Other infections such as Lyme disease can result in long-term symptoms, many of which overlap with long COVID.

☆ Did You Like (or Hate) This Column? Your Feedback Is Requested.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Please hold on after this alleged humor column for a brief, three-minute survey. Your feedback is extremely valuable. Oh come on! You’re used to this maddening modern drill. These days, every consumer experience—both online and in real life—is getting subjected to an immediate debrief, conducted by a faceless robot who really seems to care.

☆ Alphabet finally makes the tough call to lay off workers. Here's how its cut of 12,000 jobs compares to the rest of Silicon Valley.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite seemingly all of its internet peers announcing job cuts, Google likely hired another 6K employees in 4Q22," Schilsky wrote. The 12,000 figure shared by Pichai on Friday suggests Alphabet layoffs are roughly in line with most of its peers. Meta's layoffs of more than 11,000 employees — announced in November — work out to around 13% of the company's overall workforce. According to filings, 98% of Meta's revenue currently comes from ads, and 87% of Alphabet's revenue comes from advertising. This wouldn't be a problem, he suggests, if Meta's revenue per employee hadn't fallen over the last 12 months $1.6 million per employee to $1.4 million.

Timothy York knows what works to treat his decadeslong opioid addiction: Suboxone, a medication that effectively quiets cravings. Since York arrived in federal prison in 2008, he has been held in a series of facilities awash with contraband drugs and violence. Yet the federal prisons are treating only a fraction — less than 10% — of the roughly 15,000 prisoners who need it, according to the bureau’s estimates. Some say the issues stem from a culture at the bureau that is skeptical of addiction medication and pits staff against prisoners. He was using an underground supply of Suboxone at USP-Coleman, the federal prison in Florida where he was incarcerated, but it was erratic.

☆ A ‘White Lotus’ Mystery: Constant Hotel Dining
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of the great delights on television at the moment is “The White Lotus,” HBO’s comedy-drama about terrible people vacationing in luxurious places. Set in its first season at a Hawaiian resort, and currently at a cliff-side Sicilian hotel (both part of the fictional White Lotus hotel chain), creator Mike White ’s series is a voyage into the empty lives and damaged psyches of the privileged class. Mr. White’s characters, for the most part, are rich maddening narcissists, incapable of joy. I love them all very much.

☆ In Praise of the Office Suck-Up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Rachel Feintzeig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

They loiter around the boss’s office. They dole out compliments to all the right people. They chime in enthusiastically at every meeting. The only thing more maddening than observing an office suck-up in action is realizing that it’s working.

☆ Make the Office Kiss-Up Work for You
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Rachel Feintzeig | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Worried About Being Locked Out of Facebook or Instagram? Here Are Options
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Robert Mcmillan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Locked out of Facebook or Instagram? It happens to a surprising number of people, often with maddening results. The reality, though, is that there aren’t many great options for getting an account restored once a user is locked out. Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., doesn’t have a customer-service line where any user can speak with representatives. The company, which has said it is committing to building out more customer-service options, advises people to use their guided tools, Facebook.com/hacked and Instagram.com/hacked, which ask a series of questions and then recommend various actions to secure the account.

Below, you'll find some of our favorite rewards credit cards without foreign transaction fees, with an emphasis on travel rewards cards that offer bonus points and miles for airfare, hotels, and more. Annual travel credit can effectively shave $300 off the annual fee if you use it Check mark icon A check mark. That's $1,200 toward travel when you redeem through Chase Ultimate Rewards®$300 Annual Travel Credit as reimbursement for travel purchases charged to your card each account anniversary year. Read Insider's guide to points and miles valuations to find out what your credit card rewards are worth. Virtually all of the best travel rewards credit cards waive foreign transaction fees by this point, so for this guide, we focused on narrowing it down to the best options in a variety of categories.

☆ Airline Fees Are Baffling. The White House’s Fix Is a Long Shot.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The government wants airlines to display, in detail, fees for bags, ticket changes and cancellations when they first flash a ticket’s price. The White House on Monday proposed a major fix to the often maddening maze of airline fees. Fliers shouldn’t expect relief anytime soon, if ever. The government wants airlines and online travel agencies to display, in detail, fees for bags, ticket changes and cancellations and certain seats when they first flash a ticket’s price. Today, ticket buyers are regularly warned of fees but at varying times, with specifics hard to find.

☆ Airline Fees Are Baffling. The White House’s Fix Is a Longshot.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Below, you'll find some of our favorite rewards credit cards without foreign transaction fees, with an emphasis on travel rewards cards that offer bonus points and miles for airfare, hotels, and more. Note that credit card lenders may use many different variations of credit score models when considering your application. Note that credit card lenders may use many different variations of credit score models when considering your application. Note that credit card lenders may use many different variations of credit score models when considering your application. Virtually all of the best travel rewards credit cards waive foreign transaction fees by this point, so for this guide, we focused on narrowing it down to the best options in a variety of categories.

☆ Apple's new AirPods Pro are worth the $249 even if you already own the older version
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Sofia PittTransparency mode is actually transparentWhen you're using your AirPods Pro and you're not in noise cancellation mode, you're in what Apple calls transparency mode. There's a built-in speaker in the new AirPods Pro that plays a sound so you can locate your lost AirPods. Audio quality is superiorThe new AirPods Pro have superior audio for a few reasons. I don't have a single bad thing to say about the new AirPods Pro. When I was too lazy to dig through my bag and get my new AirPods Pro, I listened to an audiobook with the older AirPods.

☆ 'Revealing' teen costumes, on-set massages, and a gender-discrimination complaint: Inside Dan Schneider's 'disgusting' Nickelodeon empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-30 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

For many Nickelodeon actors, life at the network was surreal, the "Amanda Show" actor Raquel Lee told Insider. Schneider set up a meeting to discuss the situation. On the one hand, the success of Schneider's shows provided rare stability in a chaotic industry. None of Schneider's shows credited more than two female writers in the entirety of their runs; "Zoey 101" and "Drake & Josh" had zero. The writer wrote that Schneider once pressured her into simulating "being sodomized" while she was telling a story about high school, to her embarrassment.

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