{"id":5251,"date":"2018-01-20T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T23:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/20\/5-generally-interesting-stories-7\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:29:21","slug":"5-generally-interesting-stories-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/20\/5-generally-interesting-stories-7\/","title":{"rendered":"5 generally interesting stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a little behind on posting these this week but I have been keeping my new year’s media diet resolution<\/a> and largely have been staying away from social media. It’s been a good change. Here are some of the interesting stories I found in ways other than virality. <\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. “China Sets New Records for Gobbling Up the World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Commodities”<\/a> (Bloomberg) –<\/strong> China’s voracious economic appetite passed one major milestone last year: it is now the world’s largest customer for oil imports.<\/li>\n
  2. “American Democracy Is an Easy Target”<\/a> (Foreign Policy<\/em>) –<\/strong> Henry Farrell argues that the best way to understand Russian intereference in America’s elections is as “a loose collective of Russians, with incredibly meager resources, have been working together in a disorganized way to probe American democracy for weaknesses,” and it is those weaknessses, not some master strategy, that has made the efforts so successful.<\/li>\n
  3. “Facebook Crushed Everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pivot to Video\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dExcept Its Own”<\/a> (Slate) –<\/strong> Facebook’s changes to its Mews Feed is “a death knell for publishers that made the infamous ‘pivot to video’\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a strategy that many outlets made under the specific advice of Facebook.<\/li>\n
  4. “An Emissary to Tyranny”<\/a> (Foreign Policy<\/em>) –<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go and hang on a banana tree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: African-American diplomats serving in Zimbabwe face unceasing racial abuse from the government there.<\/li>\n
  5. “I have cancer. Don’t tell me you’re sorry.”<\/a> (The Guardian<\/em>) –<\/strong> Elizabeth Wurtzel on living with cancer is a powerful read.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I got a little behind on posting these this week but I have been keeping my new year’s media diet resolution and largely have been staying away from social media. It’s been a good change. Here are some of the interesting stories I found in ways other than virality. [Sign up here if you’d like … <\/p>\n

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