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“Among the ideas López Obrador is now entertaining is to barter it off in exchange for medical equipment, to sell it to a consortium of companies for executive incentive programs or rent it out by the hour, in hopes of paying off the remainder of outstanding loans on the plane.” AP: “Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has made selling off the luxurious presidential jet a centerpiece of his austerity program, but there’s just one problem: Nobody, it seems, wants to buy the white elephant.” (Now they’ll never have the money to pay for the wall…)
+ “The startup operates more than 2,000 taps around the world and is hoping to reach a $1 billion valuation by 2023, when it wants to have 100,000 taps.” Bloomberg: Now AI Can Deliver the Perfect Head for Your Beer. (I knew AI would ultimately benefit society.)
+ The New York Public Library’s 10 Most Checked-Out Books of All Time.