Word Art, Location Data & ❤️ emojis (Spam Mail #12)

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The link this week on The New York times is a great case study on how a business reinvents itself. If that’s not your thing, there’s some fun Word Art.

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The (Not Failing) New York Times (Mine Safety Disclosures)

How The New York Times reimagined their product, and their business model, to become profitable in the face of a struggling newspaper industry.

Hiring top talent is - by far - the most impactful determinant of NYT's core product: journalism. And better journalism drives more subscribers, which generates more profits for NYT to invest in hiring even more journalists.

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps (Vice / Joseph Cox)

This dives into the problematic network of data brokers and the military.

Many of the users of apps involved in the data supply chain are Muslim, which is notable considering that the United States has waged a decades-long war on predominantly Muslim terror groups in the Middle East, and hundreds of thousands of civilians have died during military intervention in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

What Every Heart Emoji Really Means (Emojipedia / Keith Broni, Jeremy Burge)

A fun look at how we use the ❤️ emoji.

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