TikTok made overconsumption cool. Now, it's turning against it.

Tech Insider : Economy
Three women shopping.
Videos featuring huge collections of products are being called out on TikTok for encouraging overconsumption.

Peter Cade

What Kris Jenner's former personal assistant learned from her that helped her launch her own company: 'Kris doesn't do anything that's not strategic'

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Maddie Steitz standing in front of a wood-paneled wall and smiling, wearing a green-grey dress.
Steitz, who also worked at Thiel Capital, has launched an organic sweetener company.

Sam Mason

A popular female coding Instagram account that said men 'suffer from biases equally to women' was created by a man, report says

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A female computer scientist
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A celebrity chef is getting canceled for making a video about egg fried rice close to the 63rd death anniversary of Mao Zedong's son

Tech Insider : Politics
A serving of egg fried rice, and Mao Zedong waves at a crowd in Beijing.
Egg fried rice in late autumn has become a contentious subject among Communist Party supporters in China.

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I'm a 24-year-old man who tried 'softmaxxing,' a less intense version of 'looksmaxxing,' for a week. I can say with confidence it's a toxic scam.

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Screenshot of TikTok of looksmaxxing
A TikTok describing the most important features to the looksmaxxing trend, and how to alter them.

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My corporate job and big-city life made me feel anxious and drained, so I left it all behind to move to a remote cottage in the woods

Tech Insider : Travel
Taylor Yates, rural cottage in the woods covered in snow.
The more time I spend here, the less I want to return to the city.

Taylor Yates

From 'chunky' dad shoes to laminated eyebrows, a millennial mom broke down the Gen Z trends she said she won't be 'gaslit' into adopting

Tech Insider : Style
A woman getting a brow-laminating procedure.
"You cannot pry my skinny jeans from me," Melissa told Business Insider.

Roman Choknadiy

Inside the 60-year friendship of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, who both started out working in the same grocery store

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Warren Buffett Charlie Munger
Charlie Munger, left, and Warren Buffett, right, have been partners at Berkshire Hathaway for just over 40 years.

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Anna Indiana is the world's first all-AI singer-songwriter. She's deeply mediocre.

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Anna Indiana
Anna Indiana's first video.

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TikTok couple say they don't exploit their kids for content, deny making them produce 40 videos on Disney World trip

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