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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

Editor's Pick

How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area (Ultimate Guide)
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=110949&nl=daily is a
useful analogy for luck. Some people get a good starting point in
life. They have a large net and happen to be in a location with a lot
of fish. They start in a lucky position. Others start with a small net
and in a poor location—one could argue they start in a less lucky
position. That is something that you and I can’t control. We don’t
choose our parents, where we’re born, or aspects of our genetics.

“Most things that happen in society are multi-turn and repetitive.
These are called preferential attachment processes which happen when
something (such as money, status, fame, punishment) is distributed
based on how much is already possessed. Most social processes are
preferential attachment. For example, if two Founders each tweet out
the same great idea at the same time, the one with more status will be
given credit for the idea.

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Editor's Note: When you work on something you're intensely curious
about, you don't need productivity hacks. You don't need to distract
yourself with software apps. You want to do the work because it's
interesting. You want to learn more, grow, develop your skills, and
explore the seemingly never-ending world that you're spending your
time in.

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TikTok loses its bid to pause the law that could ban it next month
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TikTok’s future now depends on the Supreme Court, though there’s
no guarantee the court will agree to hear the case. "As we have
previously stated, we plan on taking this case to the Supreme Court,
which has an established historical record of protecting Americans'
right to free speech,” the company said in a statement. “The
voices of over 170 million Americans here in the US and around the
world will be silenced on January 19th, 2025 unless the TikTok ban is
halted."

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Prices wont stop falling in China, and Beijing is grasping for
solutions - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=110949&nl=daily]
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As prices spiral downward, companies are pumping out more goods to
avoid losses, creating a vicious cycle that is eroding confidence.















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The week CEOs bent the knee to Trump - WSJ (No paywall)
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Companies abandoned Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Now,
they are rushing to curry favor with the president-elect as he
prepares to return to the White House.

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Elon Musk and Tesla Shareholders Are Richer Than Ever - Inc (No
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On Wednesday, shares of Tesla climbed 5.93 percent to break a record
high that had been in place for three years. The same day, Musk became
the first individual ever to boast having more than a $400 billion net
worth on account of a massive sale of insider shares for SpaceXone of
Musks other billion-dollar companies.














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Joining a Professional Group Where Everyone Already Knows Each Other -
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Even for experienced professionals, it can feel intimidating to join a
new professional group or association especially if you discover that
youre practically the only new member and everyone else already seems
to know each other. How can you break in and build relationships when
no one else seems to feel the need? Here are four strategies to help
you feel more comfortable, so you can stick around long enough to
enjoy yourself and the benefits of membership: 1) Ask for networking
help. In most cases, youll know at least one person in the group who
can help you break in. 2) Commit to understanding the dynamics of the
group.3) Overindex during your first year. Because youll feel like a
stranger at first (and you are) the antidote is to make yourself a
regular as quickly as possible. 4) Double-check your assumptions.

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Ionis blazed trails in genetic medicine. On the cusp of a major
approval, can it also be a commercial success? - STAT (No paywall)
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CARLSBAD, Calif. Stroll inside Ionis Pharmaceuticals Southern
California headquarters, past the giant hanging glass sculpture of an
RNA molecule, and you cant miss it on the back wall: In bright red, a
digital countdown clock ticks off the days, hours, minutes, and
seconds until a moment the biotech is betting will be
transformational. Its now down to just six days.














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Court Refuses To Pause TikTok Ban As Case Heads To Supreme Court -
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A federal appeals court refused Friday to put its ruling upholding the
federal ban on TikTok on hold while the company appeals to the Supreme
Court, giving TikTok only weeks to secure a favorable ruling from the
Supreme Court before the ban takes effect January 19.

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An interview with the military commander of Syrias new masters - The
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IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE building of a small Alawite town on Syrias
Mediterranean coast sits Abu Hassan al-Hamawi, a bearded Islamist. He
is the military commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and is largely
responsible for the groups sweeping conquest of much of Syria in
recent weeks.














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Russia appears to pull back its forces in Syria - FT (No paywall)
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Satellite imagery and Ukrainian intelligence suggest activity
consistent with drawdown at Moscows key air base

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Court Denies TikToks Bid to Pause US Ban Set for Jan. 19 - Bloomberg
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TikTok is expected to ask US Supreme Court to intervene Company argued
pause doesnt pose national security threat














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Student loan debt update: millions could see payments surge in 2025
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Next year, borrowers who are in an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan
could see higher payments. These plans allow federal student loan
borrowers to see a lower payment amount based on income and family
size, and they also often qualify for total student loan forgiveness
after 20 or 25 years.

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Is your brain scamming you?
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Welcome to Sidewalk Talks with Vince Staples: a street smart guide to
staying in control of your money. In this series from Chime and Vox
Creative, rapper Vince Staples tackles common personal finance topics
to help people make better money choices. Whether youre hoping to
build savings, pay off debt, or simply want to better understand your
own finances, Vince breaks it all down and offers up some street smart
wisdom on taking control of your pay and your future.














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The Deal Trump Must Make With Putin To End Ukraine War Without Feeding
Russia's Imperialism
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The collapse of Syria's mass-murdering Assad regime delivered a huge
setback to Vladimir Putin's immense Middle East ambitions, including
losing his cherished warm-water port.

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"We Need This Done in a Hurry!" How to Prepare for a Rushed Project
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It's Time to Knuckle Down with a Plan. ??? Every project management
book, course, or methodology has beautiful diagrams of the process.
First, you set up the pre-planning meeting; then, you type up the
project proposal; and then, when everything gets rolling, you look at
the hard numbers.














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Yakuza Mine | Samurai, Ronin, Kabuki-mono: The Crazy Ones
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The Yakuza, an ethnic mafia in Japan, is an entity that exists
primarily to commit crime in search of profits. Strictly speaking, it
is not illegal to belong as a member of a criminal cartel. The
policing approach here is to approach it as companies with employees
who commit crimes.

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The Truth About AI Agents: Are They Really That New?
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o Timeless Patterns, Smarter Tools: AI agents may seem revolutionary,
but they are built on timeless integration patterns like those in ESBs
and ETLs, enhanced with smarter capabilities like dynamic parsing and
semantic routing.













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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Facing Impeachment Vote for
Second Time
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Opposition needs ruling party support to suspend president over
'insurrectionary' martial law bid, while removal would need court
approval

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Ex-wife, 4 others arrested in 'ambush' murder of California doctor
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The ex-wife of a California doctor and four others have been arrested
in connection with his "ambush-style" murder that took place over the
summer, according to Los Angeles officials and local ABC station KABC.
Dr.

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Last bone surgeon in northern Gaza killed, Palestinians say
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Dr Sayeed Joudeh died on Thursday while he was on his way to work. He
was a surgeon at Kamal Adwan and al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza.

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Trump calls for ending daylight saving time
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President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he's in favor of eliminating
daylight saving time, calling it "inconvenient" and "very costly" as
his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) directors also push for
action on the matter.

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What next for Assad and his family?
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When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not
only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family
ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez
was president for three decades.

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OpenAI announces a ChatGPT organizing system called Projects
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On day seven of "12 Days of OpenAI," the company announced Projects in
ChatGPT -- a way to customize and organize your chats. Well, they
aren't all going to be bangers.

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Argentinas president Javier Milei given Italian citizenship sparking
outrage
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Italy's government has granted citizenship to Argentina's president,
Javier Milei, on account of his Italian family roots, prompting
outrage among opposition politicians who contrasted his treatment with
that of the children born in Italy of migrant parents.

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From farmer to premier who is Francois Bayrou the new French prime
minister
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Francois Bayrou, the new French prime minister, calls himself a
country man. A tractor-driving "son of the soil" and breeder of
thoroughbreds, he has run for president three times, saying his rural
roots and centrist politics led him to try to find common ground
between left and right.

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Microglia: The double-edged sword in Alzheimer's progression
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Genetic depletion of microglia delays amyloid plaque deposition and is
reversed by xenotransplantation of human microglia. Credit: Nature
Communications (2024). DOI: 10.

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Sony-Honda's 275-mile electric sedan set to launch in US
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Two of Japan's biggest companies came together some two and a half
years back to develop an electric vehicle. Sony Honda Mobility has now
unveiled its first model, a four-door fastback saloon that's packed
with AI and even a computer graphics game engine.

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From scrap to strength: Solid phase manufacturing transforms aluminum
waste into high-value alloys
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Metal scrap can be directly transformed and upgraded into
high-performance, high-value alloys without the need for conventional
melting processes, according to a study by researchers at the
Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Famous Syrian activist Mazen Al-Hamada found dead in Damascus
'slaughterhouse' prison
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LONDON -- After dedicating his life to fighting the regime of Assad,
Mazen Al-Hamada did not live to see it fall.

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The Prototype: Turning Coal Into Batteries
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In this week's edition of The Prototype, we look at a new optical chip
for data centers, turning fossil fuels into EV batteries, Google's
quantum breakthrough and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in
your inbox here.

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What really mattered in 2024
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The stories that will endure from a wild year. At the end of every
year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held
up or fell flat, what were the year's biggest events, and just what
the year, considered as a whole, really meant.

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Why does McKinsey still get hired
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In late 2005, I was in a Tokyo meeting room with some top GE
executives. As the company's corporate director of public relations at
the time, I was helping sort through a corporate initiative we were
planning to announce with some important Japanese customers.

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Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity
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When Alois Kachere decided to order a Starlink kit after the company's
launch in Zimbabwe in September, he hoped to be the first person in
his neighborhood to get the high-speed internet terminal. But others
had beat him to it: "Starlink is at capacity in your area," he read on
the website.

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Workers are being punished for ignoring AI advice - even when they
know better
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A report from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and ESMT
Berlin has revealed workers are now being penalized for ignoring AI
recommendations, even when they know better.

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What If AI Can Actually Help With Your Burnout?
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If you're still skeptical of using AI in your life, try our One
Annoying Chore Test.

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The Beginner's Guide to Recognizing and Changing Negative Thoughts
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This strategy will help you recognize and replace the negative
thoughts that can hold you back in life.

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The Incredible Power Of Friendship
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In many ways, those with whom you surround yourself make you who you
are.

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Can You Measure a Technology Team's Efficiency?
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Today we'll discuss a question I've heard a few times recently, "How
can leaders measure if their expensive technology team is effective /
efficient?" To some people, that's a fair question. Try to imagine you
have a group of a few hundred software engineers working for you.

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Three-Quarters of the Earth Has Gotten Permanently Drier
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Climate change has tipped the world into long-term desiccation

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How I learned to love literary criticism.
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When I asked Zena Hitz this question in our recent interview (do
listen, she's full of good things), Zena took her public position of
"zero". Obviously, I do not agree. How could this blog exist if I did?
But I don't think Zena and I disagree as much as it might appear.

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Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
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Maybe that's not as scary as Godzilla destroying Tokyo (again!--yawn)
or a cockroach eating Cincinnati. But it proved just as effective.
They cleared out 35 acres in the middle of my 'hood to build this
monstrosity, eliminating historic buildings and scenic park space.

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Amazon's AGI boss: You don't need a PhD in machine learning to build
with AI anymore
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BYStuart Isett/Fortune

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Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely
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If someone advises you to "know your limits," they're likely
suggesting you do things like exercise in moderation. To a robot,
though, the motto represents learning constraints, or limitations of a
specific task within the machine's environment, to do chores safely
and correctly.

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Luigi Mangione Isolated in Maximum Security, Not Under Suicide Watch
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Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the murder of
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is currently being held in
maximum security at the Huntingdon State Correctional Institution in
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

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This Is the New Type of Hire All Startups Need on Their Team
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The traditional approach to talent acquisition is undergoing a
significant shift.

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Neuroaesthetics Reveals How the Arts Help with Dementia and Trauma -
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Many of us do not have to look much farther than our family, circle of
friends, or co-workers to know someone who has been touched by
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or a neurological disorder such
as Alzheimers disease. And that doesnt even take into account the
acute daily stress, sometimes reaching toxic levels, that we all
experience.

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Thousands take to streets of Seoul as S Korea tries to impeach
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The city is seeing a flurry of activity today, as protesters - both
supporting and against the president - stage huge rallies ahead of the
impeachment vote this afternoon.

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U.S. Court Denies TikTok's Request to Freeze Sale-or-Ban Law
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Michael Hughes, a spokesman for TikTok, said, “As we have previously
stated, we plan on taking this case to the Supreme Court, which has an
established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free
speech.” He said that American users’ voices would be
“silenced” if the law were not stopped.

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Trump Backs a Longshoremen's Union That Supported Him
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Mr. Trump won a second presidential term with the support of many
union members, and he has vowed to protect American workers. And while
it is unclear how much he will do to help the labor movement broadly,
his backing of the I.L.A. suggests he could strengthen the hand of
unions that have courted him.

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U.S. Will Allow California to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars, Officials Say
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The waiver can be used to rein in toxic, smog-causing pollutants like
soot, nitrogen dioxide and ozone that lead to asthma and lung disease.
But California officials have also been using the waiver to curb
greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, a chief cause of global warming.
Gas-powered cars and other forms of transportation are the biggest
source of carbon dioxide generated by the United States.

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Western self-sufficiency in computer chips is just not going to happen
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American microchip giant Intel is looking for a new CEO following Pat
Gelsinger's shock resignation. This represents more than just a
corporate shake-up. It's the end of an era in which one company could
totally control a strategically vital American technology.

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