Brexit, Wikipedia, Advertising, McD Monopoly, Japan's Emperor - Five Things - Issue #276

Weimar gets a lot of references these days...

People are amazing.

Advertising, once a creative industry, is now a data-driven business reliant on algorithms. The implications are deeply sinister – not only for the consumer but for democracy itself.

Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost eve…