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 every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’

Interesting problem to have.

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