What I am reading today

Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You like the links, sign-up for the email newsletter.

• Is Tesla-rival Faraday Future a zombie company? Well, it seems to be the case. What happened? Read on tech node.
• The fake Rolex of canned goods: Good God! This has to be the “headline of the day” and envy of The New York Post headline writers. Read on Taste Cooking.
• The unexpected effects of the HIV prevention pill is one story you want to read today. It will take about 20 minutes to read and two days to seep into your mind. Highly recommend this one. Read on Mosaic Science.
• Toward a more radical selfie is about the 18th-century British artist, Mary Morris Knowles, a women’s

These are some of the stories, essays and blog posts I have read today. This list is updated multiple times a day, so be sure to comeback often. The latest one is on top. Sign-up for my email newsletter to get this mailed to you at the end of the day.

• Climate change is acting as wildfire “threat multiplier.” a smart analysis of chnaging climate, and the California Wildfires. Read on WeatherWest.
• Why I am long humanity. An excellent essay by my dear friend and investor, Michael Eisenberg. “Social Media has become the Rings of Gyges,” he writes and “craving for human-ness is increasing as uncertainty in the world, and the economy is increasing.”
• Regardless of your politics, this article about how Amazon used a bidding war to scrap cities data is worth a read. Read on In These Times.
• How debt collection companies are destroying small business across the

Do you remember what happened at the start of this week? Me neither! The news is flowing so fast these days, that you can’t really figure out what’s really happening. And that is why misinformation — aka the real fake news — surreptitiously gets embedded in our brains and we start believing that it might be true. The whole thing is becoming a bit of a confusing mess. And that’s the objective of the propagandists. Yet another accurate Orwellian prediction. Perhaps that is why I am sharing these articles today so that when you get a chance to read them, you feel you feel satisfied, at the very least.