Flop Accounts, Untapped Markets and Cosmic Radiation

My morning pre-fishing reads:

• Although Amazon grabs nearly half of every U.S. dollar spent on the internet, it isn’t winning the digital war on all fronts (Bloomberg)
• “Flop Accounts” Are the New Teen Thing on Instagram (the Atlantic)
• Beyond the crash: Politics don’t matter; market forces shape our world. So ran the dominant ethos before 2008. Adam Tooze, the author of a landmark book, says it was always an illusion (the Guardian)
• The Untapped Market That’s Ripe for Activists (Institutional Investor)
• Sassy, self-aware, snarky: In the Trump era, cable news banners troll in real time (Washington Post)
• Push to weaken U.S. Endangered Species Act runs into roadblocks (Nature)
• White threat in a browning America (Vox)
• The Queer Art of Failing Better: “Queer Eye” for the capitalism-damaged and toxically masculine (the Baffler)
• The Cosmic Radiation Forecast Could Be Bad for a Human Mars Mission (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (Circa 1490) (Open Culture)

What are you reading?

Digital music accounted for 54 percent of revenues, the highest proportion ever

Source: Alphaville