#breadcrumbs: *Yoda voice* Read you should 09.04.20

Diamond batteries, the Duke and Duchess of Netflix, computer-chip brains and Mariah Carey’s memoir—it’s all in this week’s internet round up. #breadcrumbs

CULTURE

• What do award shows look like in the time of COVID? Ask the VMAs 🎤
• Remembering Chadwick: unpacking how he transfixed the world 🖤
• To narc or not to narc, that is the question 🍻📚
• Think you know Mariah Carey? She doesn’t know you.
• This week’s Long Read: eco-yogi slumlords turned pandemic villains
• Disney’s first adaptive children’s costumes come just in time to celebrate inclusivity this Halloween 🎃

ART & FASHION

• TikTok’s ~hot takes~ on Gucci style with the #guccimodelchallenge
• Meet Natalie Kalmus, the “high priestess of Technicolor” 🎞️
• Would you wear a 💛 zit sticker 💖 to work?
• Artist Olivia Johnson is redefining “women’s work” stitch by stitch 🧵🧶

TECH & SCIENCE

• Ikea meets Imma: this virtual influencer is making “herself” feel at home at the Harajuku location 🛋️🛒
• The psychology behind our inner Yodas and Darth Vaders
• Who’s ready for a chip-wire-implanted future? Elon Musk is but those pigs aren’t 🤖🐷
• And if ^^ that isn’t enough IRL science-fiction for you, the cure for radioactive waste is here! And it’s…diamond batteries??? 💎💎

NEWS & BIZ

• They may have fled the royal castle, but Harry and Meghan have found a home at Netflix
• Rapper, businessman…. fast food ambassador?? Travis Scott X McDonalds coming to a location near you 🍟🍔🥤
• The US Open is underway! Serena breaks another record, no one is surprised, but we are all stoked 🎾
• Can’t we just call instead? Political analysts toy with the pros and cons of a door-knocking ground game in a COVID election environment #Election2020