The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Is a thumbs-up emoji a contract? A Canadian court says yes [1000d]
• Inside the organization that’s trying to finally unionize architecture [1000d]
• A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid [1000d]
• Ant Group, Jack Ma-founded fintech giant, gets fined almost $1 billion by China regulators [1000d]
• Dust cloud 2023: Sahara sand could choke your summer skies this weekend and next week [1000d]
• A massive offshore wind farm just got approved off the coast of New Jersey [1000d]
• Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its ‘copycat’ Threads app [1000d]
• How DEI work will actually be affected by the affirmative action ruling, according to experts [1000d]
• POV: AI could increase corporate profits by $4.4 trillion a year, according to new research [1000d]
• How much do you need to be financially secure? Americans now cite a surprisingly high salary [1001d]
• You might get a refund check from the FTC if you were scammed by bogus financial services [1001d]
• Earth just hit another ‘hottest day ever.’ Here’s the online tool that maps weather extremes [1001d]
• Fast fashion is literally making us sick [1001d]
• This airline wants you to travel across the world without clothes [1001d]
• A decade after its brief disappearance, the Twinkies brand is thriving [1001d]
• The Threads logo is confusing people, but that’s exactly why it’s brilliant [1001d]
• Jony Ive discusses his first hardware project post-Apple [1001d]
• An oral history of how David Bowie created the metaverse—more than 20 years ago [1001d]
• This radical proposal totally reimagines Skid Row housing [1001d]
• How splitting sound might lead to a new frontier of quantum computing [1001d]