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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andrew Cuomo’s Downfall Began with a Book Deal</strong> - A new report details how the former New York governor forced aides to work on his lucrative pandemic memoir, and how that scandal connects to the others that brought him down. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/andrew-cuomos-downfall-began-with-a-book-deal">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Russia Hasn’t Cracked Down on COVID-19</strong> - The country’s fragile political climate has repeatedly undermined its response to the pandemic. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/why-russia-hasnt-cracked-down-on-covid-19">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Reëxamining the Legacy of Race and Robert E. Lee</strong> - The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/reexamining-the-legacy-of-race-and-robert-e-lee">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?</strong> - In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-global-democracy-summit-raises-an-awkward-question-can-%20ours-endure">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Hard-Won Achievements of Mary Cocaine</strong> - A life of devotion to family, pie, and the city of Worcester. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-hard-won-achievements-of-mary-cocaine">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why the US government is always shutting down</strong> -
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How the US can shut down but other countries can’t.
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Toward the end of every year, the countdown until the United States government goes into a shutdown begins. Congress and the president usually avoid it in the final hour, but sometimes they don’t manage to agree on a spending bill and the government actually shuts down. The US is really the only country that does this.
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The longest shutdown in history, in 2019, lasted 35 days. Federal workers — and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/contractors-shutdown/">many contractors</a> — didn’t get a paycheck for 35 days. Some of those employees were furloughed, meaning they didn’t have to go to work, but more than half of them still had to go into the office unpaid.
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So … why? It goes back to the Constitution and how the federal government funds its agencies. We talk to a law professor and workers who have been through a shutdown to explain.
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You can find this video and all of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA"><strong>Vox’s videos on YouTube</strong></a>.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Remembering Stephen Sondheim</strong> -
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Remembering the man behind Company, Into the Woods, and Sunday in the Park With George.
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Stephen Sondheim died last week at the age of 91, and there’s too much to say. For most people, it would be enough to be the lyricist and composer behind iconic individual songs like “Being Alive” and “Somewhere.” But Sondheim wasn’t just a clever and affecting songwriter; he wasn’t even just a giant in the world of musical theater — he was <em>the</em> giant, a genius who remade the entire genre in his image.
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Sondheim musicals were once considered too cerebral for mainstream pop culture. Now, Sondheim’s songs, many of them rapturous odes to ambiguity, ambivalence, and the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/4/20752123/mortifying-ordeal-timothy-kreider-tumblr-
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meme#:~:text=The%20format%20is%20simpler%20than,becomes%20part%20of%20the%20joke.">mortifying ordeal of being known</a> — have become the gold standard by which onstage emotions are judged. “Isn’t it lovely how artists can capture us?” he wrote in his Pulitzer-winning <em>Sunday In the Park With George</em> (1984), and it’s true: No artist captured people quite like Sondheim.
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Vox has gathered our thoughts on the impact of his work, but before we dig into some of our favorite shows, a quick personal note about the person he was.
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In her 1999 autobiography, <em>Wake Up, I’m Fat!</em>, actress Camryn Manheim (who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRV1O-Cd_c0">famously dedicated</a> her 1998 Emmy win for <em>The Practice</em> to “all the fat girls!”) wrote about how impossible it had been for her to find an agent after Juilliard. Size discrimination was rampant, and Manheim was ignored despite her talent — until she got hired to do readings for Stephen Sondheim. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/arts/television-radio-a-step-forward-in-a-campaign-for-the-fat-girls.html">As Manheim</a> told it, Sondheim, after watching her work for a week, asked her to audition for him. When she confessed that she didn’t have an agent, he arranged for her to get one. Manheim never did audition for Sondheim, but thanks to him, she got her career.
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As a fat person who’d been told all my life I was too fat to be onstage, having Sondheim show up in the middle of this book as the benevolent patron saint of fat women was a revelation to me. Because Sondheim, my lifelong hero, my own patron saint, had looked at Camryn Manheim and seen all her talent, I felt like he was looking at me, too, encouraging me to live my dreams without shame or fear. After all, if Stephen Sondheim could look past a person’s size, why couldn’t everyone else?
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Thank you, Mr. Sondheim, for this, and so much more. —<em>Aja Romano</em>
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<em>Into the Woods</em>
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<em>Into the Woods</em> was my gateway Sondheim. When I was about 8 years old, my older sister sat me down in front of the PBS recording of the original Broadway cast performance, and together we bopped our way through the infectious nursery rhyme rhythms of the opening number. Cinderella, Jack (of beanstalk fame), and Little Red Riding Hood were all going into the woods in search of their wish, and I was enchanted.
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Then my sister left me to watch the rest of the show myself. When she came back a few hours later, she found me much shaken by what I had just witnessed, and ready to rewind the VHS and watch the whole thing again and again and again until I understood it.
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A lot of people have similar <em>Into the Woods</em> stories. It presents as unusually accessible for a Sondheim show, even cuddly, so much so that a bowdlerized version of the first act is frequently licensed to schools as <em>Into the Woods Jr.</em> (I made myself very annoying to the director of my middle school production by opining that adding the second act would really make our staging a lot richer.) After all, it’s a fairy tale mashup! With bouncy little songs about beans and cows and such! You can even hum them!
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The 2014 Paris staging of <em>Into the Woods</em>.
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But if <em>Into the Woods</em> greets you with open arms, it’s only to hide the vicious points of its claws. That deceptively simple opening theme grows more and more unsettling as it repeats, until Rapunzel’s wordless arpeggios have turned into screams. And the characters’ wishes don’t rebound on them so much as devour them whole.
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Sondheim understood something fundamental about fairy tales: that these are stories of grievance and vengeance and lust and the spite that curdles families like bad milk. When <em>Into the Woods</em> tells us that no one is alone, it’s both a comfort and a threat. —<em>Constance Grady</em>
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<em>Assassins</em>
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I was 13 the first time I saw <em>Assassins</em>. My mother and I, having driven 90 minutes for the privilege, were probably the only people in the audience at Circuit Playhouse in Memphis who knew what we were getting into.
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At first, the rest of the audience didn’t quite know what to do with this sketchy, scathing satirical drama about the marginalized men and women who try to kill presidents in America, but by the time “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVjAMm1ryA">The Ballad of Booth</a>” was over, they figured it out. Sondheim spends the entire song making us sympathize with a racist, conspiracy-mongering narcissist, but at the climax, he reminds us exactly who we’re in league with by having John Wilkes Booth drop a racial slur. It hit the audience like something physical, exactly as it should.
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We talk about the power of theater in the abstract, but <em>Assassins</em> impacted me in a very concrete way, more profoundly than any other single piece of media in my life. The ability of Sondheim and librettist John Weidman to both sympathize with and condemn their ensemble of historical outcasts, all while interrogating the larger social systems that failed them, taught me what deep, clearsighted empathy really looks like.
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<em>Assassins</em> doesn’t always work — its contradictions, its tripwire of Grand Guignol and pathos, can lead to productions that miss the point completely. But when <em>Assassins </em>works, it devastates. There’s a reason <em>Assassins</em> failed twice to come to Broadway: first, in 1990, when it debuted off-Broadway just before the Gulf War began and was deemed too anti-patriotic; then, in fall 2001, when it was canceled before opening. <em>Assassins</em> is often too uncomfortable, too painful to bear — which is exactly why, as our assassins observe, attention must be paid. <em>—AR</em>
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<em>Sunday in the Park With George</em>
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<em>Sunday in the Park With George</em>, the 1984 musical for which Sondheim won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (alongside collaborator James Lapine), is about two kinds of artistic burdens.
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The first act, which follows pointillist Parisian painter Georges Seurat as he creates his 1886 masterpiece <em>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte</em>, is about the burden of genius. Seurat (who has been memorably played by Mandy Patinkin, Daniel Evans, and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others) becomes so consumed with creating an image that captures a singular moment in time that he shuts out the world, including his girlfriend, Dot.
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The second act follows Seurat’s great-grandson in 1984. He constructs elaborate, experimental art installations that nobody seems too excited by, and he spends more time trying to find funding for his work than his great-grandfather had to. This act, then, is about the burden of realizing the limits of your own imagination, of understanding that you might not<em> </em>be a genius after all, or at least that what’s in your head will never quite translate into reality.
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Actress Annaleigh Ashford as Dot in <em>Sunday in the Park With George</em>, 2017.
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<em>Sunday</em> is stacked with some of Sondheim’s greatest songs. The first-act standout “Finishing the Hat” (often spoken of as Sondheim’s single best song) depicts Seurat as he works to get a relatively minor detail — a hat — exactly right in his painting, isolating himself from the rest of the world in the process. “Children and Art” sees an elderly Dot contemplating the only two true legacies a person might leave behind. (They’re in the title.) “Color and Light,” “Putting It Together,” “Move On” — I could go on.
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Yet I keep coming back to “Sunday.” The song shows the final assembly of <em>A Sunday Afternoon</em>, Seurat moving his various pieces around to create the painting we know today. It’s deeply, achingly beautiful, and the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsHflVxyGKQ"> effect onstage of actors coming together</a> to replicate the famous image is staggering. The music and lyrics somehow capture the feeling of light trickling through the treetops, frozen for eternity. It’s the song hundreds of<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr99DVmFt2c"> Broadway performers gathered to perform</a> as a memorial to Sondheim, and with good reason: The song feels like legacy, an unforgettable echo passed down through the ages. —<em>Emily VanDerWerff</em>
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<em>Company</em> (or, <em>Original Cast Recording: Company</em>)
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<em>Company</em> had made its 1970 Broadway debut only a week prior when the cast gathered in a studio to record the<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6UbNkEqfwOVchQcmAYxJvZ"> original cast album</a>. An orchestra was there, too. So was the show’s director Hal Prince, playwright George Furth, and composer, a 40-year-old Stephen Sondheim. Serendipitously, so was pioneering documentarian D.A. Pennebaker.
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Pennebaker, perhaps best known at that point for having made the 1967 Bob Dylan film <em>Dont Look Back</em>, had been brought in to film the recording session as a potential pilot for a TV series about different cast album recordings. But, as Pennebaker recounts in a humorous text crawl at the start of the film, that show never happened. The pilot remains a stand-alone film.
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<em>Original Cast Album: Company</em> is a jewel of musical documentaries, capturing the cast’s incredible performances with the kind of close-up detail you can’t get when you’re down in the seats and they’re onstage. Most notable is Elaine Stritch’s grueling, yowling marathon recording of “Ladies Who Lunch.”
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Yet somehow Sondheim manages to steal the show whenever the camera turns to him. He exudes some mixture of amusement, exhaustion, and quiet agony when he hears a rhythm go off just a little. He tries to get Pamela Myers to pronounce “Bobby <em>bubi</em>” correctly, an imperceptible difference to most ears; he catches notes that have crept out of line; he watches with anxious confidence as Beth Howland hurtles herself through the breakneck “Getting Married Today.” He knows this cast can do it — they’ve been doing it onstage — but ever the perfectionist, he won’t take his foot off the pedal until he’s sure it’s worthy of committing to vinyl.
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<em>Company</em>, among the earlier shows for which he wrote both music and lyrics, was also one of the first on Broadway to center on adult relationships and mature themes. There are ways in which it’s aged weirdly, and others in which it feels like Sondheim wrote it yesterday. “Being Alive,” both in the show and in the movie, is so moving it makes your heart want to explode out of your chest — a testament to Sondheim’s uncanny grasp of the perplexities and weird, wonderful joys of just being a person in the world. The film offers a glimpse into the kindly exacting, genially unrelenting drive for perfection for which his collaborators loved him. <em>—Alissa Wilkinson</em>
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<em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</em>
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My love for Sondheim blossomed immediately, despite my first encounter being an extremely high school production of <em>Sweeney Todd</em>: We tried to replicate a Broadway chorus using some ambitious teenagers with fake beards and … me, in a makeshift orchestra pit, staring down a trumpet part rewritten for xylophone. (It was still better than the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120202135955/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20155983_3,00.html">Tim Burton version</a>.)
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<em>Sweeney Todd</em> — a tragicomedy about a mythic serial killer — has given Sondheim a certain macabre reputation, despite his many proudly quotidian musicals. But Sondheim knew that people want to see the pure expression of emotion in a musical, and that there are plenty of ones worth exalting besides joy and sorrow. In Sweeney, he summoned a monster to swallow up all our <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140912184656/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/05/classicalmusicandopera1">fears of change and of staying the same</a>. Not to mention fears of, well, being chopped into bits.
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The grand theatrics are still a bit of a departure. The ordinary people Sondheim is known for appear here only as a faceless chorus and bit-part fools; they feed the cruel machine of the Industrial Revolution. The main figures are larger-than- life oddballs: a barber with a mysterious past, an obsessive judge, a hardscrabble pie-maker. Dense music and lyrics often abruptly shift in cadence, dancing around the inevitable bloodletting; medleys usher victims into the barber chair even as they chatter and croon about their dreams.
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Actors Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, and Alexander Gemignani onstage in the 2005 Broadway staging of <em>Sweeney Todd</em>.
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The lighter Sondheim touch is thankfully present throughout; there are some quiet, lovely songs (“By the Sea”), and almost every scene is leavened by the wit of the bumbling yet cunning pie-maker, Mrs. Lovett. The highlight is one of her duets with Sweeney, “A Little Priest,” in which Sondheim delivers on the impossible task of coming up with new twists on all the puns you might expect from the start of the musical.
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Still, depending on your feelings about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140912184656/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/05/classicalmusicandopera1">musicals that are really operas</a>, it may all seem a bit much by the second reprise of a ballad sung to some shaving knives. That was definitely the vibe I got from confused friends who showed up to a high school musical about Victorian cannibalism. (The next production chosen was <em>The Pajama Game</em>, and I think our suburban principal let out many sighs of relief.) But if the world is “man devouring man, my dear,” then, as the demon barber himself asks, “who are we to deny it in here?” <em>—Tim Williams</em>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Twitter is again losing Jack Dorsey, its multitasking, wizard-bearded visionary</strong> -
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Jack Dorsey, creator, co-founder, and CEO of Twitter onstage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention in Miami, Florida, on June 4. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Critics often said Dorsey was distracted, but he shaped the company into what it is today.
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Twitter’s co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as the company’s chief executive, marking the end of an era for the company, which has been shaped and guided by its forward-thinking and at times distracted founder. Dorsey will remain a member of Twitter’s board until at least next year.
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The news, first reported by CNBC, was in some ways a surprise, especially given the timing: a Monday morning and a company holiday at Twitter after the Thanksgiving weekend.
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In other ways, Dorsey’s resignation has long been anticipated. Wall Street investors have criticized the Twitter co-founder for his outside interests: running another important tech company he started, Square; pursuing futuristic projects around <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-bluesky-decentralized-social-media-network-
|
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bitcoin-2021-2">decentralizing the internet with blockchain</a>; and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/05/into-
|
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africa-tech-leaders-weigh-in-on-jack-dorseys-planned-move-to-the-continent/">traveling the world</a>. In just the last year, formidable activist investor <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/1/21160375/jack-dorsey-twitter-elliott-
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management-paul-singer-ceo">Elliott Management</a> had pushed aggressively for him to resign even sooner.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="Y3lNr5">
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Dorsey’s replacement is former Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal, who has worked at the company for 10 years and is regarded as a trusted leader among his staff. Agrawal was in charge of executing Dorsey’s vision to build a decentralized version of social media, built on blockchain technology, which would allow users to choose their own algorithms.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="yxGxMz">
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While it’s still too early to say if and how Twitter will operate any differently under Agrawal’s watch, what we do know is the company is losing its vision-oriented, original-thinking founding leader. He may have been an absent CEO at times, but was nevertheless respected by many in the tech industry for inventing a platform that put the public in conversation with each other about topics both trivial and world-changing, while retaining a sense of humor and eccentric personal style.
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“I want you all to know that this was my decision and I own it. It was a tough one for me, of course. I love this service and company … and all of you so much. I’m really sad … yet really happy,” wrote Dorsey on Monday in a company email that <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720">he also tweeted</a>. “There aren’t many companies that get to this level. And there aren’t many founders that choose their company over their own ego. I know we’ll prove this was the right move.”
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</p>
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You could read Dorsey’s emphasis on “founder ego” in his goodbye note as a dig at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who founded that company 17 years ago and seems to have no plans to relinquish his control over it. Unlike Zuckerberg, Dorsey has been famously hands-off in delegating some key decisions — like whether or not to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform — to his employees, like chief legal officer <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/tech/vijaya-gadde-twitter-risk-takers/index.html">Vijaya Gadde</a>, whose team made the final call to ban Trump, with Dorsey’s sign-off (Dorsey <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/twitter-trump-suspended.html">was reportedly traveling in French Polynesia</a> around the time of the decision).
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Dorsey was in some ways an unconventional leader, and under his guidance, Twitter did things a little differently. While Twitter suffers the same problems around hate speech, extremism, and harassment that every major social media platform faces, it has managed to garner praise from members of the social media research community for offering more transparency, at least compared to competitors, about what goes viral on its platform. And the company clearly wields incredible influence as the social media platform of choice for world leaders, journalists, and many celebrities and newsworthy figures.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ohg4cT">
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But at the same time, it has <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-
|
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users/">struggled</a> to gain the volume of users and financial success as competitors like YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. This is partly because Twitter, unlike some of its competitors, has taken a relatively measured approach to growing its product. For a long time, Twitter wasn’t focused on making money; it didn’t sell ads for years. Its product design hasn’t changed much. It also didn’t, as a habit, acquire or copy its competition, as Facebook often does.
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</p></li>
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</ul>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="dd8dGG">
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And some of Dorsey’s personal plans and interests gave external critics more reasons to push for his replacement in recent years. Dorsey famously wanted to leave Silicon Valley to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-says-moving-to-africa-2019-11">move to Africa</a> for at least three months in 2019 (he later scrapped those plans), and for the past few years, he began devoting more of his time to developing a new decentralized social media ecosystem, Bluesky. In Dorsey’s tweets and public interviews over the past few years, he’s spent more time talking about Bluesky, crypto, blockchain, and other related decentralized internet endeavors than growing Twitter’s main product itself.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="jUmMxK">
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Elliott Management group made Dorsey’s divided attention the backbone of its failed <a href="https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2020/3/9/21171482/twitter-jack-dorsey-elliott-deal-jesse-cohn-silver-
|
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lake">attempt to push Dorsey out</a> of the company last year.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="7uJsED">
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Still, despite these challenges, Dorsey is leaving Twitter in a place of relative strength compared to even a year ago. In recent months, Twitter has been <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22417844/twitter-scroll-subscription-ads">monetizing more of its products</a> at a rapid pace beyond just advertising, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-is-twitter-blue-and-is-it-
|
||
worth-%243/id1080467174?i=1000541453129">introducing tools like Twitter Blue</a>, a paid subscription version of the platform. And the company’s earnings the past few quarters have been relatively strong.
|
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9OmSDX">
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“Jack says he is choosing the company over his own ego, but I think this is about as good as it gets for the company — and he is leaving being able to say the stock was up,” one former Twitter executive told Recode. The source also said that Dorsey trusts the new CEO Agrawal, who has executed his vision so far. “Leadership change always gives engineers a reason to freak out … so putting a CTO in place keeps the engineers placated and maintains the steady, iterative product direction Jack oversaw.”
|
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="A2XRBm">
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Dorsey <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2008/meet-our-ceo-and-
|
||
chairman-again.html">stepped down as Twitter CEO</a> once before, after being pushed out by his board in 2008, only to have a <a href="https://fortune.com/2015/06/11/twitter-ceo/">Steve Jobs-style return in 2015</a>. It seems less likely, though, that he would return a second time.
|
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</p>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="REh6hF">
|
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There’s a lot we still don’t know about the leadership switch at Twitter. In the coming weeks, we should expect to find out more about the circumstances around Dorsey’s exit and how the company might change under Agrawal.
|
||
</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ob1Iql">
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But what’s most clear now is that Dorsey’s exit is another example of a trend at other significant tech companies. As my colleague Peter Kafka wrote earlier this year when <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22263352/big-tech-founders-leave-bezos-amazon">Amazon founder Jeff Bezos</a> said he’d step down from his CEO role, Big Tech has gotten so big that it no longer needs its demigod-like startup founders at the helm. Bezos, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google all turned over their companies to trusted stewards with more low-key personas — and those companies are still financially doing great.
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="5W10Z8">
|
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The exception to that is Mark Zuckerberg, the tech founder CEO who seems to have no plans to step down, even though he and his company are perpetually mired in scandal. Unlike Dorsey, Zuckerberg has been rewarded by Wall Street for his relentless focus on growing his company’s profits. And also unlike Dorsey, Zuckerberg managed to negotiate unilateral control over his board from the very beginning.
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ydV4MQ">
|
||
Dorsey could still be in charge if he had more power over Twitter’s board or if he grew the company at an expansive scale like Facebook.
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="EWU1hn">
|
||
But instead, Twitter will move into a new era — one without an eccentric, <a href="https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/jack-
|
||
dorsey-wizard-beard-official-length">wizard-bearded</a> leader <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/twitters-dorsey-
|
||
called-trolling-
|
||
congress-214958804.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALJCKXUDhh1pL7rpSvbra1EM8DHskMc-
|
||
zenjYVyRat2AeffQq9Yqeemu1lOkWBO0aKiQMQVESmrCvrnDDVZDofAJdgzGF7O-zaUd2QS-3gyKU4Ok0K892mQTO6lq_Di9VtO7IQ6PLtL8klRMyovpHZZkyJcuFOXv8bwMUNsQwxbE">who trolled Congress</a> and waxed poetic about the future of the decentralized web. The Dorsey years may not have been the most focused, but they were memorable.
|
||
</p>
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="EK9Nd5">
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<em>Peter Kafka contributed reporting to this article. </em>
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</p>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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||
<ul>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lance Klusener to step down as Afghanistan coach after Dec 31</strong> - Klusener had taken over as Afghanistan coach from Andy Moles, who was serving in an interim capacity after the exit of Phil Simmons following the 2019 World Cup</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>South Africa promises secure bio-bubble for Team India; appreciates BCCI for continuing ‘A’ tour</strong> - However, BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal said the tour remains on schedule provided the situation doesn’t aggravate in the rainbow nation after a new COVID-19 variant was detected there</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bangladesh vs Pakistan first Test | Abid Ali misses second century as Pak. beats Bangladesh</strong> - The second test starts on Saturday in Dhaka.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>World Tour Finals | Sindhu leads India’s campaign; focus on Lakshya, Satwik-Chirag as well</strong> - It will be the best ever representation for India at the year-end tournament with as many as seven of them qualifying for the $1,50,000 event.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ind vs NZ Test | ‘We did it together bro’, says Ravindra to Patel as they discuss nerves</strong> - Ravindra in the company of Ajaz Patel held a; 91-ball vigil that yielded 18 runs for him to save the match.</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watch | All about the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh</strong> - A video on Purvanchal Expressway, the longest expressway in India</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>No Omicron infection detected in India: PGIMER</strong> - Experts urge caution given high transmissibility of new variant</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Thiruvananthapuram-based Nireeksha Women’s Theatre group develops short stories by nine Malayalam women writers as radio plays</strong> - The drama series is an initiative for She Radio on Radio Malayalam, the online radio of Malayalam Mission, Government of Kerala</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Telugu film lyricist ‘Sirivennela’ Seetharama Sastry passes away</strong> - The play of words in the film ‘Sirivennela’ won Seetharama Shastry unprecedented fame and moniker</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Duo build digital marketing firm with million dollar annual turnover</strong> - Beating pandemic blues, a start-up team at the Kozhikode Government Cyberpark has built a digital marketing empire with million dollar annual turnover</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Yazidi genocide: IS member found guilty in German landmark trial</strong> - Taha al-Jumailly is jailed by a German court for crimes including the murder of a young Yazidi girl.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Poland PM urges ‘wake up’ to destabilisation by Russia and allies</strong> - Mateusz Morawiecki tells the BBC that it was “not too late to act” before “bad things” happen.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>France issues arrest warrant over Japan ‘parental kidnap’</strong> - Vincent Fichot says his Japanese wife disappeared from the family home with his two children in 2018.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ballon d’Or: Lionel Messi wins award as best player in world football for seventh time</strong> - Paris St-Germain and Argentina forward Lionel Messi wins the Ballon d’Or - awarded to the best footballer of the year - for a seventh time.</p></li>
|
||
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Magdalena Andersson: Sweden’s first female PM returns after resignation</strong> - Magdalena Andersson is backed by MPs again, despite standing down last week hours into the job.</p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
|
||
<ul>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots</strong> - Don’t believe the hype—this isn’t reproduction or replication. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1816856">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>US preps vaccine contingencies amid panic over poorly understood omicron</strong> - Vaccines offer “at least some protection” against omicron, Biden believes. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1816834">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>All the best Cyber Monday 2021 deals we can find so far [Updated]</strong> - We’re sifting through the Cyber Monday junk to find the deals that are actually deals. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1816264">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The best Cyber Monday deals on Apple devices</strong> - Apple’s gotten in on the Black Friday action, offering gift cards on many of its most popular devices. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1815883">link</a></p></li>
|
||
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nissan announces halfhearted EV strategy after fumbling its lead</strong> - New playbook appears ripped from 2010, relies heavily on series hybrids. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1816779">link</a></p></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
|
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|
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<li><strong>How can you tell who owns bitcoin at a party?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/blechniven"> /u/blechniven </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/r5bi8g/how_can_you_tell_who_owns_bitcoin_at_a_party/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/r5bi8g/how_can_you_tell_who_owns_bitcoin_at_a_party/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
|
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<li><strong>The director of one of America’s finest hospitals is showing the President around the hospital.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“He has a very rare condition,” responds the director. “He produces semen way too quickly. If he doesn’t masturbate at least thrice a day, his testicles will explode.”
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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In the next room, another male patient is being given a blowjob by a gorgeous female nurse. “What’s going on in there?” asks the President.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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“Same problem, better insurance.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wimpykidfan37"> /u/wimpykidfan37 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/r4zpf1/the_director_of_one_of_americas_finest_hospitals/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/r4zpf1/the_director_of_one_of_americas_finest_hospitals/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>There are four kinds of sex</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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HOUSE SEX - When you are newly married and have sex all over the house in every room.
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BEDROOM SEX - After you have been married for a while, you only have sex in the bedroom.
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HALL SEX - After you’ve been married for many, many years you just pass each other in the hall and say “FUCK YOU”
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COURTROOM SEX - When your wife and her lawyer fuck you in the divorce court in front of many people for every penny you’ve got.
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25.8069758 is the root of all evil.
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Bob.
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