The Brutalist Report

FastCompany

• Generative AI’s refusal to produce ‘controversial’ content can create echo chambers [760d]
• Celebrating the best in email marketing [760d]
• Starbucks’ latest sustainability push: Cold drink cups will have 20% less plastic [760d]
• The music catalogs of Shakira, Neil Young, and others just sold to a Nashville-based company for $1.4 billion [760d]
• Why AT&T turned its new ad into a reunion for ‘The Office’ [760d]
• Can this Arabic font help readers with dyslexia? [760d]
• Mexico, strong-armed by the U.S., will stop incentivizing Chinese EV production [760d]
• Zepbound shortage update: FDA issues ‘limited availability’ warning. When might it end? [760d]
• ‘Complete and absolute despair’ for Texas farmers as shared water supply with Mexico threaten sugar and citrus production [760d]
• 4 years later it’s official: WHO says COVID spreads ‘through the air’ [760d]
• California landlords and business owners won’t be able to hide behind LLCs if new bill passes [760d]
• Ibotta IPO: Stock price closely watched today as Walmart-backed marketing platform lists on NYSE [760d]
• A shuttered Bed Bath & Beyond will become downtown Seattle’s newest music and arts venue [760d]
• Disneyland’s “Magic United” petitions the NLRB to form a union [760d]
• The Fed’s inflation fight isn’t over—that’s bad news for housing market affordability [760d]
• Why a hiring rejection will sting, even if you already have a great job [760d]
• Microsoft is riding on geopolitics to extend its AI footprint [760d]
• Trump stands to make another $950 million from Trump Media—unless the stock plunges again [760d]
• Why you should learn to incorporate more humor at work [760d]
• Like listening to waterfalls and birds on Spotify? Now when you play them you are helping protect them [760d]
• Humane’s ambient computing vision is a dead-end [760d]
• 9 Gen Z work trends that aren’t new but hit different now [760d]
• Why an ex-Googler just opened a chestnut farm in rural Pennsylvania [760d]
• This is how we can use AI to empower rural America [760d]
• 5 unexpected ways to (finally) stop procrastinating [760d]
• Florida researchers just discovered a way to turn CO2 into plastic [760d]
• Have you shared fake news lately? AI is making us worry that we’ll become part of the problem [760d]
• GM just opened a sprawling new design center that will help shape the future of its cars [760d]
• The secret negotiating power you have when you get laid off [760d]
• How to give a good group presentation [760d]
• Is the rise of strategy the death of design? [760d]
• These street lights double as EV chargers [760d]
• A worker dies every 96 minutes from a job-related injury. Here’s how to fix it [760d]
• Are Biden’s climate actions enough to win young voters? It’s complicated [760d]
• 3 policy changes that need to happen to make fashion more sustainable [760d]