THE WEEK STARTS HERE! Five Things - Issue #442

Thanks to the shutdown, untold numbers of contractors who work for the government are going unpaid.

A HUNDRED YEARS ago a wave of student protests broke over China’s great cities. Desperate to reverse a century of decline, the leaders of the May Fourth Movement wanted to jettison Confucianism and import the dynamism of the West.

The tech giant will spy for anyone with the cash to buy your secrets.

Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

Hotels and restaurants are hoping you’ll take a selfie in one of their novelty bathrooms.

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