The Saturday Selection, Vol. 11
Car dealer secrets, Hooters, and Goldman vs. AI.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our new Saturday send for paid readers, we’re rounding up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why Are These Interesting?
Good Sign Offs (via Public Announcement)
“With loving scrutiny,”
The Decline and Fall of Hooters (New Statesman)
“The thing about Hooters is that you're compromised the moment you walk in the door”: A dispatch from the last vestige of pre-internet America.
Podcast: The Resurrection of Abercrombie & Fitch (Wall Street Journal)
Inside the revival nobody expected.
Chum King Express (The Verge)
The man behind the AI gaffes at Sports Illustrated and USA Today has a yearslong history of filling the internet with garbage.
Escape From the Box (Prospect)
New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.
Zach Bryan’s Message To Men (The Atlantic)
The country singer’s rise is a small, hopeful sign for modern masculinity.
What My Adult Autism Diagnosis Finally Explained (New York)
“I’d long suspected something was off. Then, at 43, an unexpected answer arrived.”
Inside The Mind of A Nimby (Financial Times)
They are widely derided, but deep down isn’t everyone a Nimby?
Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Believe The AI Hype (Where’s Your Ed At)
On their damning new 31-page report.
David Remnick Wants Biden To Step Down (New Yorker)
For America’s most respected editor, “There is honor in recognizing the hard demands of the moment.”
Stay on the ride.
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Thanks for reading,
Noah (NRB) & Colin (CJN) & Louis (LC)
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