The Temu/Shein Saturday Night Live skit is SO WILD
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Louise Matsakis
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Louise Matsakis
@lmatsakis
senior business editor @wired. My Signal is louise_matsakis.83. I co-write Made in China: wired.com/newsletter
- I don’t believe that a single person intends to give a tip to a multibillion dollar venture-backed startup. They are trying to tip the person who delivered their order. This deceptive model should be illegal nytimes.com/2019/07/21/nyr…
- For my newsletter this week I wrote about how an industrial chemical manufacturer became a TikTok meme, and what Chinese influence actually looks like on TikTok youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jing…
00:00 - a high school publication in Kentucky broke the story that their local police department was training officers using quotes from HitlerJaw-dropper from the journalism students at @manualredeye: A Kentucky State Police training slideshow obtained via open records request quotes Hitler, advocates being ‘ruthless killer’ manualredeye.com/90096/news/loc…
- There have been a lot of great stories about injuries and safety issues at Amazon, but this one from the Atlantic and @reveal is particularly vital, shocking, and important. Read it before you start buying holiday gifts with Prime
- Last year, an art student named Julia King found an argyle vest in a thrift store. She took a photo of herself wearing it and listed it on Depop for $22. Within a few weeks, her photo was photoshopped and put on dozens of e-commerce sites to sell replicas restofworld.org/2021/how-shein…
- Be✍️hot✍️enough✍️to✍️conform✍️to✍️sexist✍️standards✍️but not TOO hot✍️that I don’t✍️get✍️hired
- NEW: over 900 Amazon employees have signed an internal petition promising to walk out on September 20th to protest the company’s lack of action on climate change. It will be the first walkout at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters ever wired.com/story/amazon-w…
- Almost 2,000 Whole Foods workers will lose their medical benefits after it was acquired by Amazon, the company run by the richest man in the world
- Amazon is hiring a pair of intelligence analysts that will, among other things, collect info about "labor organizing threats against the company" and file "restraining orders against activist groups." amazon.jobs/en/jobs/102606…
- Replying to @bijanstephenthis is too easy but: no one can have more than $100 million dollars. I'd like to go a lot lower, but you asked for dumb ideas
- Replying to @lmatsakisOn one hand this, is spot-on and darkly hilarious, but on the other, it speaks to how negative the connotation of Made in China is and shows why so many brands try to cultivate a Western image even when their products are produced there too
- On TikTok, you can’t tell when anything was posted- there are no timestamps on videos. The app also blocks you from seeing the clock on your smartphone when you use it- unlike every other social app. I wrote about this!
