Jun 21, 2021

🔗 A lot of links

Legit. | Legal News

Good Monday afternoon! For the next 2 weeks, we’ll be taking a little break and sending out interesting (legal & non-legal) links instead of long-form stories. Enjoy!

P.s. we’ll be back with a new website 👀

Lmk if you want to give me feedback & I’ll give you early access!

LEGAL STUFF

Top legal news from this week, with a few long-reads thrown in at the bottom.

US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against chocolate firms.
Bitcoin drops as China intensifies crypto mining crackdown.
Greece approves controversial new labor bill.
Belgium’s climate failures violate human rights, court rules.
Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days.”
Justice Mahmud Jamal becomes first person of color to sit on Canada Supreme Court.
Spotify acquires podcast discovery platform, Podz.
SPACman: William Ackman’s SPAC is buying 10% of Universal Music Group for $4 billion.
New Yorker: Anatomy of a murder trial (2010)
Long read: What’s going on at Yale Law School?

NON-LEGAL STUFF

The best non-legal articles I’ve read this week.

How to be lucky (Psyche) - on cultivating a serendipity mindset.
Planetary sapience (Noema Mag) - on natural and synthetic intelligence.
We Are Not Robots (100days) - on automation, biryani, and the art of ‘andaza’.
E-Mail from Bill (New Yorker) - a 1993 article on Bill Gates and this new thing called ‘email’.
Touching the future (Griffith Review) - on AI, stories of the future, and disrupting the present.
Name of the Game (Real Life) - is there a difference between creators and influencers?
The Tyranny of Time (Noema Mag) - “the clock does not measure time; it produces it.”
How to Understand Things (Nabeel Qureshi) - self-explanatory.
The New Frontier of Belonging (FKPXLS) - on the power of the collective.

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