Turn that clown upside down.
The US added 467,000 jobs in January despite the omicron variant surge. / The Washington Post
Shares of Facebook parent company Meta plunge in the biggest one-day decline for a stock in US history. / CNBC
Explainer: How Apple's push for privacy on the iPhone cost Meta $10 billion. / The Economist
Starbucks has around $1.6 billion in outstanding "stored value card liabilities." / Moneyness
Three more anonymous former Washington Football Team employees come forward with allegations of sexual harassment. / Jezebel
A visualization of the words used most often whenever women are mentioned in news headlines. / The Pudding
Beijing's Winter Olympics begin, but with China's closed-loop system around the Games, it's not clear who's watching. / Foreign Policy
Taliban fighters are no longer allowed to carry weapons in amusement parks, in what appears to be "another effort by the country's new rulers to soften their image." / Reuters
When headlines scream 2022: "Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras." Or maybe "Shake Shack hooks up with DoorDash for chicken sandwich-themed dating site." / VICE, MarketingDive
Related: An auction house sells the negatives of two Charles Goldie photos as NFTs, then encourages the buyers to destroy the originals. / Hyperallergic
Photographs taken from a helicopter of salt ponds, sites where sea salt is produced, begin to resemble abstract art. / Tom Hegen
Music critic Alex Ross lists multiple reasons to abandon Spotify that have nothing to do with Joe Rogan. / The New Yorker
At least 27 Kansas towns have enacted free land programs since the late 1990s. The state still struggles to give away its land. / The Hustle
Michigan is financing a road said to be capable of wirelessly charging any electric cars driving on top of it. / Fox 2 Detroit
See also: The Netherlands will dismantle a historic bridge to deliver a giant yacht to Jeff Bezos. / Quartz
From October, a remembrance of Glurpo, the world's first (only?) underwater clown, who also ran for president of Texas. / Texas Monthly
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