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👋 Hi friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of Newley’s Notes, a newsletter containing my recent Bloomberg News stories, must-read links on tech and life, and funny dog videos.
Image above: Easter Procession, St. Marks (1898), by Maurice Prendergast
Here are 10 items worth your time this week:
1) 👉 My latest, an exclusive out Thursday with my Bloomberg colleagues Eric Fan and Paige Smith: US Agency Probes Workers’ Bias Claims Against India’s TCS <– 🎁 Gift link. The lede:
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating dozens of American workers’ allegations that India’s biggest IT outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., discriminated against them based on their race, age and national origin.
2) 🙏 RIP, Pope Francis.
3) 🚢 A helpful Bloomberg feature: “Tracking Every Trump Tariff and Its Economic Effect.”
4) 🇭🇰 Related: This week’s Schumpeter column in The Economist. The headline: “The trade war may reverse Hong Kong’s commercial decline.”
5) 🔭 “Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.”
6)🚦 Some Seattle crosswalk buttons were hacked to play what sounded like Jeff Bezos saying “Please, please don’t tax the rich.”
7) ⛵ “The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea.”
8) 📺 What I’m watching: “The Last of Us” is back for season two. One word on the action so far: wow.
9) 📖 What I’m reading: Last weekend I completed a months-long quest to conquer the great Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. I loved it. My (joking, but only kind of!) review, which I shared with colleagues, is: TLDR – 19th-century Russian aristocrats: They’re just like us!
10) 🦴 Dog-related video of the week: “That face says it all – he needs some love.”
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Newley