Thou shalt yacht kill
Shou Zi Chew, head of TikTok, faces a grilling before the House of Representatives, amid much talk about a ban. / MarketWatch, Wake Up to Politics
Recalling a headline from January: "Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025." / NBC News
Employees at 100 different Starbucks stores plan to walk off the job to welcome the company's new CEO. / The Guardian
A new book says the real history of the NBA is one of conflict between Black labor and white ownership. / The New Yorker
See also: "US Announces Plans To Reclassify Everyone's Race Based On Net Worth." / The Onion
The wreckage of Saddam Hussein's 396-foot yacht "al-Mansur" is a draw for sightseers. (We prefer Celine Van Heel's "The Spanish King.") / Jalopnik, It's Nice That
A Winnie the Pooh slasher film has been pulled from Hong Kong cinemas because Winnie is a playful taunt of China's President Xi Jinping. / The Associated Press
Questlove starts a book publishing imprint inside Farrar, Straus and Giroux. / The Root
Book publishers see BookTok as their savior, "all the moreso because they don't really understand it." / Vox
The Writers Guild of America says it's open to movie and TV scripts written with the help of artificial intelligence. / The Verge
Max Read on what Facebook criticism can teach us about AI criticism: "I'm open to the possibility that we rest on the edge of a precipice." / Read Max
A map of places in the US with the same name. "We calculated what place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are." / The Pudding
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