#jeff bezos vogue

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[nico-esoterica]

Be as emotional, spiral-y, fearful, and doubtful as you want. They don't manifest or sabotage your manifestations if you don't believe them and stick to your story! They're just emotions! Feelings! They're just chemical reactions! Throw the manifestation community rules OUT!

You don't need perfect mental health to manifest. You don't need to be confident or believe anything will happen. You just need to pick a story that you say is happening/will happen/has happened and stick to it. Tenses don't matter. Nothing does.

Thinking in your favor about yourself and your manifestations as a topic (money, relationships, success, health, beauty, etc) helps you feel better about being in control and only benefits you. But being a shining beacon of perfect mental health and fearlessness aren't necessary. Tbh, I interpret fearlessness as not giving a flying fuck if you're afraid and sticking to your guns anyway.

That's why so many people have still manifested in the midst of depressions, giving up hope, and flat out leaving the law of assumption all together conceptually. As long as you haven't changed your mind and said it's not coming, can't happen, etc, and maintained that and weren't just having a moment that you corrected, you still getting your shit, baby.

Baaabyyyyyyyyy, you have your fine ass sp, your dream body, and your billions. You're in Forbes, Vogue, and Jeff Bezos is sick of you bc you've outshined him.

YOU'VE GOT IT! *pygmy hippo screech*

[strokes-of-everything]

I just think it’s super duper insane for everyone out there shouting, « Eat the Rich! » and « Save the Planet! » to now be voting for Kamala and Walz who are being backed by:

Taylor Swift, the chick who couldn’t even deign to drive across St. Louis and instead booted up her private jet to fly ALL OF THIRTEEN MINUTES to reach her next destination.

Dick Cheney, who MADE MONEY OFF THE IRAQ WAR

Jeff FREAKING BEZOS, the absolute monopolistic overseer you all claim to despise

Vogue magazine, the elitist creators of body image issues since it began

Ivy Getty, a fucking OIL HEIRESS.

I could go on. And on. And on.

I give up. You all are so rabidly defending Democrat lies that you can’t even see you’re voting to keep the people in power you claim to hate more than anything else.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

📋 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐌 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐑𝐎, 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟒𝟎𝐱𝟒𝟎 📋

📌 ARO jam recipients (as of May 27th, 2024)

Tracy Robbins (designer, wife of Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins) *

Delfina Balquier (Argentine socialite, wife of Nacho Figueras) * and Nacho Figueras (professional polo player) *

Kelly Mckee Zajfen (friend, Alliance of Moms founder) *

Mindy Kaling (actress and comedian) *

Tracee Ellis Ross (actress, daughter of Diana Ross)

Abigail Spencer (friend, Suits co-star) *

Chrissy Teigen (television personality, wife of John Legend)

Kris Jenner ('Momager') *

Garcelle Beauvais (actress, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) *

Heather Dorak (friend, yoga instructor) *

📌 Archetypes podcast guests

Serena Williams 🏆

Mariah Carey 👑

Mindy Kaling (actress and comedian) *

Margaret Cho (comedian and actress)

Lisa Ling (journalist and tv personality)

Deepika Padukone (Indian actress)

Jenny Slate (actress and comedian)

Constance Wu (actress)

Paris Hilton (entrepreneur, socialite, activist)

Iliza Shlesinger (comedian and actress)

Issa Rae (actress and writer)

Ziwe (comedian and writer)

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (former wife of Canadian PM Trudeau)

Pamela Adlon (actress)

Sam Jay (comedian and writer)

Mellody Hobson (President and co-CEO of $14.9B Ariel Investments, Chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation, wife of George Lucas)

Victoria Jackson (entrepreneur, wife of Bill Guthy: founder of Guthy-Renker, leading direct marketing company)

Jameela Jamil (actress, television host)

Shohreh Aghdashloo (Iranian and American actress)

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (actress and singer)

Candace Bushnell (Sex and The City writer)

Trevor Noah (South African comedian)

Andy Cohen (talk show host)

Judd Apatow (director, producer, screenwriter)

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📌 40x40 participants

Adele 🌟

Amanda Gorman (poet and activist)

Amanda Nguyen (activist)

Ayesha Curry (actress, cooking television personality)

Ciara (singer and actress)

Deepak Chopra (author and alternative medicine advocate)

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris (former Surgeon General of California)

Elaine Welteroth (former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue)

Dr. Ibram X Kendi (professor and anti-racism activist)

Fernando Garcia (creative director of Oscar de la Renta)

Gabrielle Union (actress)

Gloria Steinem (feminist journalist and social-political activist)

Hillary Clinton (politician, wife of former US President Bill Clinton)

Katie Couric (journalist) *

Kerry Washington (actress)

Chef José Andrés (founder of World Central Kitchen)

Melissa McCarthy (actress)

Princess Eugenie (member of British Royal Family)

Priyanka Chopra (actress)

Sarah Paulson (actress)

Sofia Carson (actress)

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (former wife of Canadian PM)

Stella McCartney (fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney)

Dr. Theresa "Tessy" Ojo - CBE, FRSA (Diana Award CEO)

Tracee Ellis Ross (actress, daughter of Diana Ross)

Unconfirmed - Edward Enninful (former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue)

Unconfirmed - Daniel Martin (makeup artist) *

An official list of all "40x40" participants was never disclosed

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📌 Notes:

Names with an asterisk (*) indicate that they follow ARO on Instagram

Notably missing from these lists: Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and wife Nicole Avant, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, Beyoncé, Tina Knowles, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Kevin Costner, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia Rossi *, Brooke Shields, John Travolta, Kelly Rowland, Holly Robinson Peete, Misan Harriman *, Michael Bublé

Wedding guests missing from these lists: Jessica Mulroney, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham, Idris Elba and Sabria Dhowre, James Blunt and Sofia Wellesley, Janina Gavankar, Elton John and David Furnish, James Corden and Julia Carey, Patrick J. Adams and the rest of the cast of Suits, Joss Stone, Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford [Source]

Sunshine Sachs must've called in a LOT of favors to get so many famous names on board the Archetypes Podcast and the 40x40 project. Vanity projects that went... nowhere.

Without Sunshine Sachs, IMO it's highly unlikely that M will ever be able to reach the same level of celebrity access on her own.

If there are any names missing from these lists, please comment below 👇

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[scientia-rex]

I can’t decide how I think Anna Wintour actually feels about spotlighting Jeff Bezos’ fiancée as if there is a single interesting or worthwhile thing about her aside from being engaged to an ultra-rich man, but I hope she hates it. I hope she wrestled mightily with sullying the pages of Vogue with a commoner with pretensions.

[royal-confessions]

“Not Queen Rania attending the sea side engagement of Jeff bezos(mentioned in the vogue feature on bezos and fiance sanchez). She's an out of touch and selfish woman.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[headedoutleft]

I am not going to read the Vogue piece, but I thought this essay on it was pretty funny -

It will never cease to morbidly fascinate me how the ultra-wealthy, despite having every resource at their disposal, will never be able to buy Authentic Coolness. We are so normal, this story’s subjects seem to be yelling, look at us in our normal 400,000-acre ranch in West Texas drinking margaritas, talking about our blended families and our friendship with the Kardashian-Jenners!

The patina of normalcy and chillness does not, shockingly, last much longer than it takes to read the story. Because all the while they are talking about driving their kids to school, attending work meetings, driving down to Tijuana for supposed philanthropic endeavors, and calling their siblings, we, the people who live in the real world and not a universe in which there exists a “salt genie” (read the story), cannot help but think, this man owns Amazon Web Services, a platform that hosts not only companies but major governments, their agencies, and financial institutions around the world; this man owns the Washington Post, one of the most widely-circulated newspapers in the country, in a continuing conflict of interest to which the government did not see fit to object; this man is not an insignificant enemy of the rising labor movement in America; and this man pays a lower tax rate than most of us. And somehow, despite all this, he and his fiancée are the recipients of Vogue puff pieces.

No? Apologies, maybe that’s what I was thinking as I absorbed these words and pictures. It is so nakedly needy, this contradictory yearning both for recognition as a Titan of Business and as One of the People. It is almost too revelatory, like we’re reading Jeff and Lauren’s journals (the ones they get to “like, three times a week”) without permission. I can picture their publicists meeting with Anna Wintour, convincing her — as they clearly did — that this would be a marketable love story. And to be fair, we are talking about it, but God, at what cost? Why be so public? Why, when even among your cohort of billionaires, you are particularly problematic, would you call so much attention to yourself? Much like we’ve all noticed with Elon Musk and his parade of mistakes, it is evident that there is no one in the Bezos-Sánchez circle to shake their head when they spout off insane and damaging-to-the-brand ideas. They either haven’t a clue how they are perceived or they simply do not care. I’m not sure which is worse.

There were so many insane quotes in this story, I almost blacked out while reading it. My brain could simply not catch up to or even fully compute what my eyes were seeing. You should absolutely read the full story, which naturally serves as a very thinly-veiled advertisement for Bezos's and Sánchez's many brands and enterprises, if only to see the below quotes in context — context that does not, I promise you, make the words any more sensical.

“… The phrase “Love you to space and back,” a favorite saying between Sánchez and Bezos, embroidered in her lilting cursive.” (The couple’s focus on space is both childish and almost mind-numbing, as if, by their calculations and without acknowledging their own role in its destruction, earth is already lost and no longer a concern of theirs.)

“Sánchez uses a mug Bezos got her from Amazon, with the words “Woke up sexy as hell again” splashed across the side.” (In another life, Jeff Bezos was a TJ Maxx mom.)

“Sánchez is also a big audiobook fan—she’s deep into Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall in Love with the Process of Becoming Great.” (About this, what can I tell you that you are not already thinking?)

“On the weekends Bezos makes churros in his deep fryer, a recipe passed down from his Cuban grandfather. ‘Abuelo made churros whenever we were with him,’ says Bezos.” (Not Jeff Bezos remembering he’s Latino!! Not this! Amigues, we do not claim him.)

“Collins counts Sánchez as a close friend (they have a pickleball crew) and describes how in “deep COVID” Sánchez called her at 6:20 a.m. wanting to help.” (If a so-called friend called me at 6:20 a.m. claiming to want to help, the first step towards that journey would be deleting my number.)

“‘I made her vulnerable and soft,’ says Bezos with more than a hint of pride.” (Reader, I gagged (derogatory).)

[joekellyotcglobalholdings]

Lauren Sánchez Says When It Comes to Fiance Jeff Bezos 'Everything's Shared'

Lauren Sánchez Says When It Comes to Fiance Jeff Bezos, 'Everything's Shared' https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/lauren-sanchez-gives-vogue-details-on-jeff-bezos-engagement/465381 Jeff Bezos' fiancé opened up to Vogue about the high-profile relationship. via Entrepreneur: Latest Articles https://www.entrepreneur.com/latest November 14, 2023 at 02:23PM

[thebillionairelaw]

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[awesometeennews]

Amazon to the rescue of the fashion world!

Amazon to the rescue of the fashion world!

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By Vanessa Friedman

Finally, Jeff Bezos is really in fashion. On Thursday, Amazon rode to the rescue of the beleaguered U.S. industry — or at least one particularly challenged and particularly notable subsection: independent high-end designers.

Along with Vogue and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the e-commerce giant announced the unveiling of “Common Threads: Vogue x Amazon…

[by-hulusi]

Çinli şirketlerin yükselişiyle birlikte milyarderler, popülaritesi giderek artan Çinceyi çocuklarına öğretebilme telaşı içerisindeler.

Independent’in haberine göre 1,2 milyar insanın konuştuğu, dünyanın en çok konuşulan dili olan Çince, iş dünyasındaki popülaritesini de giderek artırıyor. Birçok zengin aile, çocuklarına Çince ve Mandarin dilini öğretme telaşındalar. Çince, Mandarin ve Kantonca olmak üzere iki temel lehçeden oluşuyor. Bunlardan en fazla konuşulanı ise 1 milyara yakın Çinli ile Mandarin.

Çocuklarına ağırlıklı olarak Mandarin dersleri aldıran dünyanın en zengin insanları arasında, Amazon’un sahibi olan Jeff Bezos da yer alıyor. Bezos’un eşi MacKenzie Bezos, Vogue dergisine verdiği röportajda dört çocuğuna Mandarin dersleri dahil olmak üzere Singapur matematik programı gibi farklı alanlarda kapsamlı bir eğitim verdiklerini belirtti.

Eşi Çin vatandaşı olan Mark Zuckerberg de uzun süredir Çince öğreniyor ve Mandarin lehçesini akıcı bir şekilde konuşabiliyor. Kızı Max de yapay zeka yardımıyla Mandarin dersleri alıyor.

Bu isimler dışında ABD Başkanı Donald Trump’ın kızı Ivanka Trump ve eşi Jared Kushner de çocuklarına Mandarin dersi veren bir başka çift. Hatta çiftin 5 yaşındaki kızları Arabella, Çince söylediği şarkılarla YouTube’da oldukça popüler olmuş durumda.

Sonuç olarak programlama dilleri, geleceğin en ciddi iş pozisyonlarından bir tanesi olarak kabul ediliyor. Artık bu dillerin yanına Çinceyi de eklemek gerekiyor.

[theculturedmarxist]

For the past few months, all eyes (or at least those belonging to the majority of members of the U.S. labor movement) have been focused on Bessemer, Alabama, where workers at an Amazon warehouse have been fighting to unionize their workplace. The campaign started with one man, Darryl Richardson, whose past union experience and determination to improve conditions for his coworkers led him to place a call to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), thus kick-starting one of the most consequential, closely watched union drives in recent history.

By choosing to organize, Richardson and his coworkers took on one of the most powerful corporations in the world, one that has enjoyed record profits during the COVID pandemic; its now-former CEO, Jeff Bezos, increased his personal wealth by $70 billion over the past year. It was truly a David and Goliath story, and though Amazon prevailed in the union vote, some workers have already made it clear that they won’t be backing down.

The Amazon workers were not asking for all that much. Their greatest demands were for higher wages, better working conditions, more flexibility, and the right to collectively bargain using the RWDSU as their representative. It was a fight for basic dignity — and Amazon’s response was to try and crush the union effort. Instead of voluntarily recognizing the union, the company insisted on a mail-in election that stretched from February 8 to March 29, and, according to accounts by workers, used that time to intimidate workers with anti-union propaganda and threats about their employment and benefits. Amazon’s behavior falls under the wide umbrella known as union-busting — essentially, any activity undertaken by an employer to prevent or discourage workers from forming or joining a union. (Teen Vogue has reached out to Amazon for comment.)

Frustratingly for those who want to organize, some union-busting activities are legal under current federal labor law; others are forbidden, but the penalties are light enough that many employers decide to do it anyway. The Economic Policy Institute estimated in 2019 that 41.5% of employers in all union election campaigns are charged with violating federal labor laws, and RWDSU believes that’s exactly what Amazon did in Bessemer. After the election, RWDSU filed 23 charges against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging in a statement that “Amazon interfered with the right of its Bessemer, Alabama, employees to vote in a free and fair election; a right protected under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.”

The next chapter in the Amazon workers’ story will likely be hammered out in court, and RWDSU is already making plans to rerun the election. The broader labor movement is behind these workers and their struggle. Unfortunately, though, our broken labor laws may end up handing another win to Amazon unless real, concrete action is taken to update and amend those laws, making it harder for megacorporations to quash their employees’ efforts to organize.

Enter the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021. Better known as the PRO Act, this bill would be the first major worker-friendly labor law reform since the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, would significantly expand workers’ ability to join and organize unions, and level heavy penalties on employers who stand in their way. There are a number of exciting reforms in the bill, including a federal override of so-called right-to-work laws that weaken unions by allowing members to opt out of paying dues; an end to the hated 1947 Taft-Hartley Act’s ban on secondary strikes (also known as solidarity strikes, these are collective actions that employees in different workplaces can undertake to support another group of workers on strike); an update to the union election process to allow workers to vote online or by phone; enhanced protections for whistleblowers; and a response to the issue of worker misclassification that would give independent contractors — a group left out of the original NLRA that is still denied basic labor rights (especially those who are part of the so-called gig economy) — the right to organize collectively. (As an independent contractor myself, I am especially thrilled about that one.)

The PRO Act would also outlaw captive-audience meetings, a particularly egregious but currently legal union-busting tactic favored by anti-union companies. During these mandatory meetings, anti-union consultants, often highly paid, are brought in to lecture workers about why unions are terrible. As reported by CNN Business in March, Amazon workers in Bessemer say they were pulled into such meetings multiple times a week, and chastised for speaking out against the anti-union messaging. The reason these meetings are so insidious is right there in the name: The “captive” workers have no choice but to sit there and absorb the bosses’ message. For those without prior knowledge of unions, it’s no wonder some may buy what the boss is selling — or feel too intimidated and confused to vote at all.

Getting rid of managements’ ability to browbeat workers with anti-union propaganda would go a long way toward cutting down the intimidation factor during a union drive. But the PRO Act contains another provision that would make an even bigger difference: Under this provision, if the PRO Act had been in place when the Bessemer workers first filed their petition in October, the workers might have had their union recognized months ago. It sounds too good to be true, but the reality is simple: It’s called card check.

Winning card check — a mechanism that allows a union to be certified if a simple majority of employees at a workplace sign union cards — has long been one of labor’s great white whales. During the Obama administration, the proposed Employee Free Choice Act would have implemented card check on a national level, but the administration didn’t seem to fight hard enough for it, and the bill died a slow death in Congress. Now Joe Biden is occupying the hot seat, and he’s been quite vocal with his support for the PRO Act; a recent executive order underlined his administration’s commitment to strengthening unions and protecting the right of workers to organize.

This proposed piece of legislation has already cleared the House of Representatives, but advocates are now locked in a do-or-die fight to get it through the Senate. Unfortunately, there are three Democratic senators who still haven’t signed onto the bill, and it’s more or less a given that the 50 Republicans will vote against it as a bloc, so it’s going to take a miracle to get it to Biden’s desk. Major labor organizations like the AFL-CIO have been rallying their membership around the bill, as have individual unions (the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, which represents thousands of construction workers who would be impacted by the bill’s independent contractor section, has run a particularly sophisticated campaign), and political organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America.

It’s hard to emphasize enough how transformative this bill could be for workers in the U.S. and how important it is to get it passed. The NLRA granted basic protections to most workers, but not all of them, and those who were left out were invariably some of the country’s most marginalized: farm workers, domestic workers, independent contractors, and public sector employees as a whole.

The PRO Act may not be a silver bullet — it’s more like a Band-Aid on a gangrenous wound — but after the beating that labor took in the Trump era, it is a much-needed step forward. The U.S. labor movement has been bleeding out for decades, thanks to the Republicans’ efforts to destroy it and Democrats’ lack of will to prevent them from doing so. Reforming our labor laws is a necessary attempt to stanch the bleeding and materially benefit working-class Americans. The Amazon workers of Bessemer deserve the right to form a union free from intimidation and fear, and so do all workers. United, we bargain. Divided, we beg.

[bopinion]

2020 / 53

Aperçu of the week:

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.

(William W. Purkey)

Wraping up 2020:

The year that is coming to an end has been so defined by Corona, Donald Trump, climate change and Brexit that this media oligopoly has also dominated my weekly self-reflection. Of course, as a self-confessed news junkie, my thoughts often revolve around sociopolitical aspects.

Numerous other topics fell by the wayside, which would have been worth mentioning, but could not assert themselves in my frontal lobe. Therefore, here and now a top ten compilation of my notes over the year (I jot down thoughts during the week, which I then process on the weekend to my blog), which I would like to get rid of on the last meters.

Other bad news of the year:

CIA and Mossad kill people on foreign soil. Even if you can't like terrorists and nuclear weapons scientists in principle, this clearly doesn't meet the criteria of the rule of law that they like to claim from third parties.

Black U.S. parents still have to teach their children special preemptive defensive behavior toward white police. Still way to go for "Black lifes matter"....

Corona complicates the fight against Ebola, HIV, etc. - especially in the third world. Vaccination initiatives are also set way back.

Spree killings and terrorist attacks everywhere - in France, Vienna, Trier, etc. - not only out of religious fanaticism, but also out of the blue. And there are still fellow citizens living in European societies who believe that defenders of freedom of expression, which also applies to images of the Prophet Mohammed, should be beheaded.

The extinction of species continues. Not only in the tropical forests of Asia and South America, where nature is being pushed back more and more by ruthless man. But e.g. also on the Russian peninsula Kamchatka, where unbelievably large populations were obviously poisoned insidiously - thus died due to environmental pollution. For comparison: that would be as if all wild animals of Germany were murdered within two years.

Political organizations (OpenPetition, Campact, etc.) in Germany are in danger of losing their non-profit status regarding taxes. This probably means the financial end for most of them, because they are usually overlooked when it comes to donations. Yet political education fulfills an essential social task, especially in the age of fake news.

Racism does not only exist in former slaveholding countries like the USA. In Ghana, for example, there is a frightening trend toward skin bleaching with extremely harmful agents, because lighter-skinned people have better chances in society - from dating to the job market.

QAnon - as probably the most frightening example of strange conspiracy theories.

Even if the whole world would take all possible measures to stop climate change from now on, the summer ice in the Arctic is already lost. And nobody knows what that means for the world's climate. It is dramatic how ignorant we all apparently still are.

According to the WHO, there was 60% more domestic violence in Europe in April 2020 than in April 2019 - an unexpected negative consequence of the quarantine and home office era.

Other good news of the year:

MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has donated $4.2 billion to charities in the past four months. Thanks to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for "The Giving Pledge" initiative!

My favorite weekly newspaper "Die ZEIT" has again been awarded the honorary title of "European Newspaper of the Year." Good choice!

The EU strengthens the Convention on Protection for Endangered Species and enables global prosecution of human rights offenders.

Vatican puts itself at the service of the global education pact. Which primarily benefits girls in the Third World.

More and more Republicans in the Senate battleground state of Georgia are distancing themselves from Trump. So there's hope for a tolerable GOP future. And for political balance in the Senate.

Joe Biden can make a difference even against a Republican Senate majority: Strengthen Medicare, suspend student loan repayment, launch green infrastructure project, etc. - all important issues for the younger generations. For that, however, he would have to play "hardball." In doing so, he would save American democracy by renouncing his own ideals of political style.

The job market in many nations remains relatively stable despite Corona. This also reduces the likelihood of a new wave of poverty with loss of residency, etc.

A so-called "supply chain law" in Germany is intended to oblige or hold companies liable for tracing intermediate goods or finished products procured abroad at all stages of their supply chain for any production processes that are harmful to the environment or violate working conditions. "Fair trade" is in vogue.

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser emphasizes the importance of human rights and environmental standards in trade issues with China and intends to increasingly align the global company's future actions with compliance.

The 40% drop in burglaries in Germany shows an unexpected positive consequence of the quarantine and home office era.

Wish you a happy new year and all the best for a better 2021!

[kentonramsey]

An Ode To The Best Met Gala Bathroom Selfies Of All Time

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) (L-R) Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, and Jeff Bezos attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Tachman/MG19/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Due to the pandemic, and in turn, the stay-at-home orders mandated by New York officials, there will be no Met Gala tonight. No getting-ready Instagram stories, no behind-the-scenes walk-throughs with designers, no red carpet unveilings, and arguably the most disappointing of all — no bathroom selfies. 

Whether or not you follow fashion, if you’re a person who scrolls through the internet, you’ve likely encountered a bathroom selfie from the Met Gala (you just might not have known where it came from, or why all those A-listers were in couture gowns in a bathroom together). But if you are someone who looks forward to the first Monday in May with the same level of obsession as us, you probably have the iconic (be it grainy) image of Armie Hammer vaping in the background of a shot intended to catch Dakota Johnson lighting a cigarette in the Met’s tiled bathroom, framed on your nightstand. Either way, you’ve come to the right place: an archive of the best Met Gala bathroom selfies of all time. 

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A post shared by Kylie 🤍 (@kyliejenner) on May 1, 2017 at 7:55pm PDT

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit has a very strict no phone or social media policy. After all, it’s one of the most exclusive parties in fashion. If you’re not on the list, you’re not getting inside — physically or virtually. But there’s one aspect to the rule — made popular by none other than social media maven and self-made billionaire Kylie Jenner — that attendees love to disregard: the bathroom selfie. 

The youngest of the Jenner sisters posted her bathroom selfie during the 2017 Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garçons-themed Met Gala. In it, you’ll find stars like P. Diddy, Paris Jackson, Elizabeth Chambers, and Slick Woods — all huddled together, posing in front of Jenner’s iPhone. Other leaked photos from the same night feature Bella Hadid kneeling on the ground in a see-through Alexander Wang bodysuit and pumps and blowing out smoke from her cigarette; Alexander Wang making the duck face for a selfie with Zoë Kravitz; and Emily Ratajkowski kissing the cheek of designer Prabal Gurung. 

But the bathroom was a popular photo locale at the Met Gala long before Kylie posted her infamous shot on Instagram in 2017. In fact, photos taken by photographer Cass Bird were released the year before, at the Manus x Machina Met Gala, which showcase the likes of Lily Rose Depp in all-white Chanel, Hailey Bieber (then Baldwin) in silver and black striped sequins, and Lily Aldridge with what looks like bleached eyebrows. Casual. 

So while tonight’s events have been cancelled, there’s no reason why we can’t still enjoy the first Monday in May in style — bathroom style, that is. Scroll down for some of our favourite bathroom selfies from Met Galas past. Trust us, you won’t regret it.

this year’s met gala theme was smoking in the bathroom pic.twitter.com/b83rjR3qlZ

— susie save your love (@veedagger) May 2, 2017

Throwback to my favorite Met Gala photos being the bathroom photos pic.twitter.com/ztijKwBE9M

— Robby Bailey (@robBEbailey) May 4, 2020

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These pictures of Lady Gaga just trying to use the bathroom at the Met Gala while everyone is taking photos will never not be funny 😭 pic.twitter.com/KOqOf1OpK9

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Thoughts on Technology by a Millennial Mainly

nickel-and-dime - verb - greedily or unfairly charge someone many small amounts for minor services

adjective - of little importance, petty (Google)

Baby-Boomers tend to think that Millennials uniformly extoll the many virtues of the current technological wonders. However, this is a gross misconception as there are a few pragmatic, discerning minds within the generation that recognize their pitfalls. My daughter is one of them.

Yesterday, she and I were driving home from Easton, Pennsylvania after we and our young relations indulged in the not-so-sophisticated applied science at the Crayola Experience, and I expressed a somewhat related epiphany just to throw a wrench in the silence: "You know, your grandmother lived 81 years without encountering much in the way of change in gadgetry. The only major apparatus she had to figure out in order to use was the TV, which involved turning a knob." This minute observation touched a nerve in my daughter and stimulated a rant: "I know. And it isn't fair! Technology is taking us down as a society! The Smartphone opened the doors of destruction." She went on to elucidate how on a recent trip to Puerto Rico, her best friend found it necessary to nickel-and-dime her and her companions via Venmo. Apparently by way of the application–a payment service that allows individuals to split bills–she was able to charge all of her guests petty sums for petty services without their permission upfront. All of this was done within seconds via her Smartphone. The successive nickel-and-dime activity on Venmo amounted to a major breach in their friendship, which might not have occurred, let's say, if it were 2005 and she still had a flip phone; or better yet, it were 1977, PayPal was a wealthy cohort, and princess phones were still in vogue.

As a detractor of modern inventors and inventions that are motivated by money, I had to concur with my daughter that I miss a life with fewer complications. Those of us in our sixties, particularly, have gone from famine to feast, having been sucked into so much in the way of automation, mechanization, computers, telecommunications, robotics, etc. in such a comparatively short time that it is more than daunting. The whole kit and caboodle is so confusing and consuming that I often want to scream out loud, but my penchant for Zen-like peace interrupts me, reminding me that I have to accept what I can't change personally. Admittedly, there are times when I wish my daughter were less circumspect as she was born into this mess and didn't have to take the leap from virtually nothing virtual to just about everything like I did.

The bottomline is that we sentient humans create our own problems or at least, complications. What we have to remember is that good and evil will always be part and parcel of this life we are living. And we need to think profoundly along those lines before we create and market anything that may earn us instant monetary rewards. I would like to think that pioneers like Bill Gates and Martin Cooper had purely unselfish intentions, but I would be naive if I did. The sad truth is that many Millennials are upsetting the economic balance by quitting their jobs only to launch their own on-line companies with the dream of becoming the next Jeff Bezos-esque entrepreneurs floating in a bath of billions. How's this for a novel idea: When it comes to anything new and different, let's put altruism before greed so as not to sway a healthy equilibrium.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't mind listening to the tirades of more Millennials who yearn to return to a degree of simplicity. On a positive note, I hear that nostalgia is back in style :).

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Have you heard of Jeff Bezos? What about a little company called Amazon? The founder and CEO of the online retail Goliath is the richest man in the world as of 2020, according to Forbes. But the saying goes that behind every great man is a great woman, and in this case that's his former wife MacKenzie Bezos. The two were married for 25 years — from the early days before Amazon even existed — until the pair publicly divorced in 2019.

Throughout the years, MacKenzie has given only a few interviews, despite her husband's notoriety. A self-professed wallflower, she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 'I am not a natural for big groups because I am such an introvert.' After the Bezos' split, MacKenzie's already almost non-existent online presence shrank even further. But that's easy to do when yo have the right resources — which she does thanks to a jaw-dropping divorce settlement.

Intrigued? Keep reading for all of the details we could uncover about Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos.

MacKenzie Bezos' true passion

MacKenzie Bezos' is first and foremost an author. She attended Princeton University, where she earned her degree in English, and worked with famous American author Toni Morrison as a research assistant, according to Forbes. After graduation, writing didn't come so easily. 'There was so much trial and error and learning to trust yourself,' Bezos told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of the writing process, adding, 'I did try to work on it eight hours a day, although there were times when I couldn't.' It was only 'fear and shame' the propelled Bezos to complete her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright. 'It took eight years, although there were kids in there with a little maternity leave,' she said. 'And it did feel like an awfully long time. There were so many different books on the way to this book — I probably did three or four complete rewrites.'

After the release in 2005, she got to work on the follow up. Staying consistent, Bezos released her second novel, Traps, in 2013. Ironically, Bezos went with traditional publishing houses — HarperCollins and Knopf Doubleday — for her two novels despite her husband's own publishing companies under the Amazon umbrella. According to The New York Times, 'When asked by an interviewer why Ms. Bezos wasn't publishing her books through Amazon's fiction imprints, Mr. Bezos jokingly described his wife as 'the fish that got away.'

MacKenzie Bezos took the pledge

Throughout her career, MacKenzie Bezos donated to various charitable causes. Per The New York Times, 'The Bezoses' charitable contributions have been modest in the past. In 2011, they donated $15 million to their alma mater to create a center to study the brain. The following year, they gave $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage referendum in Washington' — their home state and location of Amazon's headquarters. A few years later, Bezos used her influence to fight back against bullies. 'In 2014, she founded Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization,' according to her Forbes profile. The organization consists of tips, testimonials, and video campaigns featuring celebrities like Melissa Joan Hart and Jared Leto, before his uncomfortable interviews later on.

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Despite all the hardship that goes along with divorce, Bezos still found the generosity to give back to the world. In 2019, 'shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge,' according to Forbes. This group consists of the wealthiest individuals in the world who have all promised to donate 'the majority of their wealth' to charity. Some of the most famous members are Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and his equally impressive wife Melinda Gates. 'My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care,' Bezos said in her Giving Pledge profile. 'But I won't wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.'

The Bezos' were just your everyday, next-door billionaires

In addition to all the writing and life as a billionaire, MacKenzie Bezos is a mom to four children. Residents of 'a $10 million mansion in Medina, Wash.' since 1999, the Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie also started their family that year. 'As they rapidly accumulated wealth, the Bezos family took pains to preserve the trappings of normalcy,' per The New York Times. According to author Brad Stone, via the article, 'Ms. Bezos often drove the four children to school in a Honda, and would then drop Mr. Bezos at the office.' That office, of course, is Amazon headquarters. Can you imagine Jeff getting out at the curb with a briefcase and bag lunch in tow?

Life at home for billionaire parents must come with many unique challenges. But according to MacKenzie, she said there was plenty of positivity in the mansion. 'All of our kids are big laughers, as you would expect with a goofy dad like that,' she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 'There is a lot of laughter in our household,' she added. MacKenzie also appears to deeply care about providing the most for her children. Speaking with The New York Times, ex-husband Jeff shared one of MacKenzie's go-to mottos: 'I would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid,' reported The New York Times.

How MacKenzie Bezos met Jeff Bezos

MacKenzie Bezos met her future husband and later billionaire Jeff Bezos at their place of work. According to Forbes, the pair first crossed paths in 1992 'when they both worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw' in New York City. She actually interviewed with Jeff and he offered her a job, although she took a job in another department. Eclipse java jdk 64 bit. 'But then as luck would have it, (I) got assigned an office right next door to his. And through the walls I would hear him laughing that giant laugh, all day long. And it was totally love at first listen,' she revealed in an interview with Charlie Rose.

The pair instantly connected. 'Within three months of dating, the two were engaged; they married shortly thereafter at a resort in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Bezos was 30; Ms. Bezos was 23,' reported The New York Times. The newlyweds packed up everything and moved to Seattle, Wash. the following year in 1994. And what about Jeff's side of the story? 'I think my wife is resourceful, smart, brainy, and hot, but I had the good fortune of having seen her résumé before I met her, so I knew exactly what her SATs were,' he told Vogue in an interview. But good luck getting those scores. 'I'll never tell,' he confessed.

Life before the high profile

Long before attending college and marrying a future billionaire, MacKenzie Bezos (née Tuttle) was just a normal kid. She 'grew up in San Francisco, a middle child with two siblings' (via Forbes), with a 'father who was a financial planner and a mother who cheerfully stayed home to cook meals and decorate the house,' according to Vogue. The magazine elaborated that Bezos 'was bookish and shy, the kind of girl who would spend hours alone in her bedroom writing elaborate stories.' And these elaborate stories were no small task. According to her Amazon author profile, Bezos 'wrote her first book when she was six years old, a 142-page chapter book entitled The Book Worm.' Sadly, 'the sole handwritten copy was reduced to a soup of pulp' after a flood in her childhood home. Bezos elaborated about the incident in an interview with Charlie Rose. 'I learned my lesson and I was .. really good at backing up my work in college and I never lost anything again.'

According to Forbes, Bezos' parents 'sent her to Hotchkiss, the Connecticut boarding school, where she graduated a year early.' After, she first 'studied at Cambridge, then Princeton, where she majored in English.' One of her English professors at Princeton, Jeff Nunokawa, remembers that Bezos 'was generally a very poised and a quiet and brilliant presence.' Somehow, an English degree led to a job at a hedge fund, where she would meet the man that would completely change her life.

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Though she runs an anti-bullying organization — Bystander Revolution — it doesn't mean MacKenzie Bezos stood quietly by if someone trashed her husband. On Bezos' Amazon reviewer profile, she has only three book reviews. Two are from 2001, well before she published her own books. And a review from 2013 questions the content in the book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone. 'Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in the book,' she said as part of her one-star review. It's hard to question her criticism, when she claimed 'I have firsthand knowledge of many of the events.' She added, in summary, 'Ideally, authors are careful to ensure people know whether what they are reading is history or an entertaining fictionalization.' Best nation in war thunder 2.

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Though according to Stone 'most of the readers and reviewers have been inspired by Amazon's story,' he still felt obliged to respond, he said in an interview for The New York Times. 'To me, it's not an unflattering account,' he added. Stone also penned an article for Bloomberg News, because even though he said, 'negative feedback happens all the time' for books — the weight of a review from MacKenzie prompted his defense. 'Mrs. Bezos mostly took me to task for what she perceived were subtle biases in my story. I'll own up to that.'

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The multi-billion dollar divorce

Only nine days into 2019, Jeff Bezos posted on his twitter account a statement signed by him and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos. 'We have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,' the pair said. Immediately, the world began discussing this unprecedented split. As The New York Times noted, 'there has never been a divorce with a couple worth an estimated $137 billion, as Mr. and Ms. Bezos are.' What would happen to all that money? The Times also noted that 'the Bezoses' primary residence and business are in Washington State, a community property state where any income earned or wealth created during the marriage is to be divided equitably between spouses.'

MacKenzie provided insight into the arrangements in her only Twitter post ever. 'Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff,' she wrote in a statement posted on April 4, 2019. The author shared that she gave Jeff 'all of my interests in the Washington Post' along with a big portion of her Amazon stake. But even with her remaining shares, MacKenzie landed a big pay day with the split. 'The couple finalized their divorce in July, with MacKenzie getting 25% of his Amazon stock,' Forbes reported in October 2019. At the time, the equalled $36.1 billion. Even with that absurd amount of money, some felt it was still too low. 'She should have gotten 50% of the company,' since 'MacKenzie was an equal partner to Jeff in the early days,' claimed Nick Hanauer, an initial investor in Amazon.

MacKenzie Bezos learned a lot about life in college

MacKenzie Bezos obviously wasn't born a multi-billionaire. In fact, this mom and established author worked hard through school, which led her to an ivy league education, and a pivotal role in building one of the biggest companies in the history of the world. Naturally, she faced difficulties along the way. As she explained to Charlie Rose, for all those challenges, whether seemingly big or small, people 'can look at them and say 'Ugh, this is a setback,' or you can know, 'This might be an opportunity. Where's this going to take me? What am I going to be grateful for? What's great about this problem?'

The author talked about her struggles and worries when applying to universities. 'I went off to college knowing I was going to have to work a variety of jobs to put myself through school. Maybe 30 hours a week on top of my course load,' she revealed to the host. After Princeton accepted the young woman, Bezos remembered thinking, 'I hope that I can juggle these jobs and still get the most out of my education.' Things fortunately worked out for the best. 'What turned out to happen is that the jobs and the juggling were half the education I got,' she told Rose, adding that, in the end, putting in the extra work really wasn't 'a setback,' but rather, 'an opportunity.'

Home sweet homes

Where would you live if you were one of the richest people in the world? Clearly, MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos reached a point during their long marriage where they could afford to live literally wherever they wanted. But before Amazon became one of the biggest companies in the world, the couple lived in simple accommodations after making the move to Washington state. Back in 1999, Wired reported that 'MacKenzie and Jeff, who've lived till now in a one-bedroom rental in downtown Seattle, also recently went shopping for a house, spending a reported $10 million for a rustic mansion alongside Lake Washington in a neighborhood littered with Microsoft millionaires.'

With a shared mansion, MacKenzie still couldn't find the space and peace of mind to work on her main career, writing novels. In 2013, Vogue reported that 'to make sure she gets in a full, undistracted day of writing, Bezos rents a one-bedroom apartment close to her family home.' Of course, her duties as a mom still came first. The article claimed 'when the school day ends, she is the one who picks the kids up and drops them off in her Honda minivan, the quintessential Mom-mobile.'

The famous mentor of MacKenzie Bezos

When choosing colleges to pursue a major in English, MacKenzie Bezos decided on Princeton University, in part for the famous author working on the staff. That was the late Toni Morrison, author of Song of Solomon and Beloved, who went on to win the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, which made her the first African-American woman to earn the honor, via The New York Times. Speaking about Morrison in an interview with Charlie Rose, Bezos said, 'Yes. It was a huge opportunity for me. I had always loved her work and you could take courses with her freshman year.' The two worked with each other throughout Bezos' education, and Morrison 'ended up being (Bezos') thesis advisor.' Bezos added, '(Morrison) was an amazingly supportive teacher, really good at bringing out the best and guiding you through that process, and very supportive after I left school, too.'

The Nobel laureate also spoke highly of her former student, calling Bezos 'one of the best students I've ever had in my creative-writing classes .. really one of the best,' reported Vogue. The magazine also revealed that Morrison connected Bezos to Amanda 'Binky' Urban, who became her literary agent. Morrison also wrote the cover review for Bezos' first novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, which she called 'a rarity: a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart' (via The New York Times).

How exactly did MacKenzie Bezos help create Amazon?

Yes, Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, but his ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos played a big part in the development back when the company was a humble startup. According to The New York Times, 'She was an integral part of its origin story, driving to Seattle in 1994 while Mr. Bezos sat in the passenger seat, working on the nascent company's business plan,' The outlet also claimed she was the company's first accountant, and via an excerpt Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, also noted that 'she helped brainstorm names for the company and even shipped early orders through UPS.'

In what Wired described as 'delicious irony,' MacKenzie and Jeff started building Amazon inside of a Barnes & Noble. You remember, that giant brick-and-mortar book retailer that was nearly driven out of existence by Amazon? Anyway, according to the tech outlet, '(Barnes & Noble) also served as a venue for business meetings with outsiders. MacKenzie Bezos even negotiated the company's first freight contracts there.' An early employee at Amazon, Tod Nelson, told Forbes that MacKenzie played a vital role in the start of the e-commerce platform. 'No one really had job titles .. so she did just about everything,' he claimed.

Billions on top of billions in net worth

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MacKenzie Bezos didn't marry a billionaire — she helped make one out of Jeff Bezos. She played an integral part in the early days of Amazon, became a mother of four, and published two novels along the way. When the pair divorced, 'she received 4% of the Amazon stake' so according to Forbes, MacKenzie was worth around $40 billion as of April 2020. Although she 'sold, gifted or transferred about $350 million worth of Amazon shares, equivalent to 1% of her Amazon stock,' Forbes reported, she is still one of the wealthiest women in the world.

What would you do with all that money? As the Bezoses' wealth accumulated, she and Jeff found creative ways to spend some money for quality fun time with the whole family. As Wired revealed, by 1999 life was already starting to get good. 'Jeff and MacKenzie's Christmas gift to everyone a year ago was laser-tag guns and vests, which, combined with the walkie-talkies his parents offered up, served as weapons in a nighttime game of laser-enhanced Capture the Flag on Amelia Island,' the enchanting spot off the Florida coast. And according to Jeff's mother, he had an unfair advantage with 'a pair of night-vision goggles MacKenzie had given him.'

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Okay, admittedly laster tag doesn't really put into perspective exactly how well-off the Bezos truly are, so how's this? In 2017 and 2018, Jeff reportedly earned $8,961,187 — per hour.