[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop

Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com

Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.

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[Link] We Were With Afghan Soldiers as the Taliban Took Kandahar

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Since the Taliban took control of Kabul earlier this month, a lot of the focus has been on the failures of the U.S.-trained Afghan military—why they seemed to put up little resistance to the Islamist extremists in some of the provinces, and then, finally, in the capital.

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[Link] The Future of Weaponized App Data

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

It’s an old story with a new twist. A top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after someone leaked information about his private life. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill left his post after a Catholic-oriented Substack accused him of being a frequent user of Grindr.

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