[SIC] Sundays #22: Deuce Deuce in the 'Cuse

Volume 1, Number 22

Welcome back to [SIC] Sundays, an exclusive, less-edited, more stream-of-consciousness digest of developments for paid subscribers of [SIC] Weekly. Thanks for being here.

Along with those directly discovered, corollary sources for this edition include:Lean Luxe / The Trend Report / Elevator / Platformer / 1440 / Declarative Statements

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Hi all,

Who goes to a childhood friend’s possibly unsanctioned wedding at 2pm on Monday? On Halloween? In Syracuse? I’ll know tomorrow and I’ll report back. Strange days.

Meantime, a tight 25x links for your late night / early AM perusal. Some fascinating ones. have a look.

Ben

Actually, Nothing.

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• It’s Halloween 2022. But the 80s are The Decade Horror Went Wild / Criterion

• Also wild:  A small deli in Cleveland, Ohio, has gone viral" / Twitter

• While a Thai transgender tycoon buys Miss Universe contest / BBC

• Fascinating prediction from Kyle at The Trend Report: After funding, there is a Mr. Beast Burger in every American city. They become hubs for content and for local influencers to “create,” effectively turning each location into a new generation’s America’s Got Talent / Fortune

• And another: Social platforms swap out users for advertisers, turning these spaces into digital malls that have lower entry points than Meta’s metaverse. Nobody uses either / TikTok

• Symptoms of? Per Katelyn Donnelly: The End of the System of the World: A critical point has been reached; decoupling is for real now. This is another de-globalization piece in the same genre as Peter Zeihan / Noahpinion

• This is fascinating, and not good. People are Taking the Robots’ Jobs / Marginal Revolution

• Why Men Win At Work / The Future Does Not Fit the Containers of the Past

• The unintended consequences of working from home / Freakonomics Pod

• Hence? For America’s wealthy, trophy trees are the latest status symbol / Morning Brew

• Spotlighting the growth of electric vehicle charging / Carbon Almanac

• When an electric vehicle charger breaks, who’s responsible for fixing it? / Emerging Tech Brew

• Why doesn’t English have a plural ‘you’? / NYT

• From Isaac Dietz: Can Hypebeast magic revive JCrew? / NYT

• Tourism is back, and brands want to meet customers at the minibar / ThingTesting

• Also for your vacation: The eight songs Rick Rubin would take to a desert island / Louder Sound

• Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification / Platformer

• Also polarizing: It’s Not Just Western Brands: Li-Ning Stokes Nationalist Controversy And Anger. Li-Ning shares plummeted 13 percent after consumers pointed out that looks from its latest collection resemble the uniforms of Japanese WWII soldiers / Jing Daily

• Elsewhere in China - young women are embracing “Chillax” / Jing Daily

• The first mega-gallery for design? Inside Carpenters Workshop’s ambitious expansion / The Art Newspaper

• I bend the paint’: how Abstract Expressionism found its groove in postwar New York’s jazz scene /Christies

• Fave artist Steve Keene on the cover of the NY Times Weekend Arts Section / NYT

• Ghetto Gastro’s Jon Gray on “Durag Diplomacy” and the Beauty of the Bronx / The Slowdown

• The case for the late, boozy dinner / FT

• Barring that (in celebration of the end of sober October tomorrow): Try these nonalcoholic drinks / Wirecutter

  

Date with IKEA

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