What we’re reading (10/3)
“Dockworkers On The East And Gulf Coasts Have Agreed To Suspend The Strike After Reaching A Deal For Better Pay” (Business Insider). “More than 45,000 striking port workers at docks from Maine to Texas have suspended their strike until January 15, 2025, and will return to work on Friday while contract negotiations continue, the union and organization that represents the ports said in a Thursday statement.”
“The Whiskey Industry Is Bracing For A Trade War If Trump Wins. It’s Not Alone.” (New York Times). “For the whiskey industry, the stakes are particularly high. In March, a 50 percent tariff on American whiskey exports to Europe will snap into effect unless the European Union and the United States can come to an agreement to stop the levies. The outcome may depend on who is in office.”
“Revenge Of The Office” (The Atlantic). “When [Andy] Jassy spoke last year about the company’s [Amazon’s] decision to move from a remote policy to a hybrid one, he said that it was based on a ‘judgment’ by the leadership team but wasn’t informed by specific findings.”
“This Teenage Hacker Became a Legend Attacking Companies. Then His Rivals Attacked Him.” (Wall Street Journal). “Arion Kurtaj, now 19 years old, is the most notorious name that has emerged from a sprawling set of online communities called the Com. They are gamers and hackers and online con artists who are native English speakers, able to talk their way into sensitive networks—social engineers in cybersecurity parlance. They have become one of the top cybersecurity threats in the world, and they are mostly boys and young men.”
“Before Brita: A Brief History Of Water Filtration” (JSTOR). “Early depictions of water purification techniques appear in Egyptian tombs from the fifteenth and thirteenth centuries BCE: In The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson sketches a reproduction of water filtration from a tomb at Thebes.”
