Monday Notes

Adobe Scraps Its $20 Billion Takeover of Figma

Adobe Scraps Its $20 Billion Takeover of Figma
Adobe will pay a $1 billion breakup fee to the design software maker, amid greater antitrust scrutiny of mergers.

Little Brother brews a new future

Little Brother brews a new future
On the surface, the story of Little Brother, the Durham, North Carolina hip-hop duo, originally a trio, doesn’t seem different from many music groups. A foundin…

A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe
Studies show that Black women who visited hospitals for prenatal care were 10 times more likely than white women to have child protective services and law enforcement called on them, even when their cases were similar

How Prophetic Was ‘Her’?

Ten Years Later, How Prophetic Was ‘Her’ About AI Dating?
A decade later, reflections of Spike Jonze’s human-AI romance are all around us