13 Jan 25 Monday Briefing
Executive Lyfe Fantasies
Excuse any shoddiness or truncation in this Monday Briefing, dear readers, because I’m currently living out my executive lyfe iPad-only fantasies for at least the next five days, thanks to Apple not giving out loaners when your MacBook is in for servicing (screen display issue, maybe not serious but certainly annoying af). I’m just getting back into the swing of things for the year, only to be stymied by tech issues, amongst other annoyances in life, so thank you for bearing with me!
News Roundup
Los Angeles burns and not surprisingly, insurance blows, tech billionaires try on supplication for size, the third largest US city sings the fiscal blues, Zuck tries to gaslight the entire world into believing that community moderation will birth a brave new world (it might, but I’m not sure I want to find out), and poor Meghan can’t get a break, which is to say, she should really take a break from wanting relevance and publicity.
Watch/Scroll
How did the Han dynasty occupy southern China? Something something fish eating mosquito larvae something something.
A wonderfully informative thread about professional lighting and what goes on behind the scenes.
Read
There’s something uniquely neurotic about food and diet culture in the US, to put it mildly, from paranoia about seed oilsto ultra-processed foods. BigAg and the food industrial complex exist, yes, and…
In a more wholesome, if ancient, shift, let’s consider the wonder behind recreating 8,600 year-old Neolithic bread and just why our ancestors started consuming dairy.
Ponder
I was raised to believe that budgeting was next to godliness and cleanliness, despite the whole do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do vibes. This longread by Anne Helen Petersen is a vibe shift in the way it forces me to rethink and possibly unlearn almost everything I thought I knew about the subject.
Sperm will never be the commodity that eggs are, with devastating consequences for the human females who are exploited for one of their body’s most precious products.