Daily LInks
1. What Needs to Happen to Tackle Fashion’s Climate Impact. On the one hand, lack of transparency and lack of clear data remain an issue. But more fundamentally there seems to be a lack of perspective in the fashion industry as a whole: stakeholders operate in narrow tunnel vision goal-oriented frameworks that aren’t broad enough to perceive the entire system in question. – Read More on
2. EBay wants to sell your grandmother’s vintage designer handbag as part of its growth strategy. We’re really the pioneers of resale e-commerce … We added authentication to build a new, game-changing level of trust on the platform. It helps protect buyers who, say, are buying a handbag, then will spend more on the site outside of bags.” – Read More on Fortune
3. What major cases are coming before the US Supreme Court? The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opens a new nine-month term loaded with important cases on issues including gun rights, the power of federal agencies, Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement, the legality of Republican-drawn electoral districts and even one involving the size of Donald Trump’s hands. – Read More on Reuters
4. US Patent and Trademark Office issues 1 millionth design patent. It is for the ornamental design of a dispensing comb — a comb with a bottle attached, which can dispense liquid through the comb. – Read More on WTOP
5. ‘Counterfeit people’: The dangers posed by Meta’s AI celebrity lookalike chatbots. The more users feel like they are speaking with a human being, “the more comfortable they’ll feel, the longer they’ll stay and the more likely they’ll come back.” – Read More on France 24
6. Pakistan welcomes fast-fashion brand Boohoo despite poor staff safety claims. Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, has reportedly asked the British fast-fashion brand Boohoo to increase its presence in the country, despite claims that it has failed to tackle poor conditions at its suppliers’ factories there. – Read More on the Guardian
