The Guinness World Records organization says Elon Musk has broken the world record for the “largest loss of personal fortune in history.”

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• Due to plummeting Tesla shares, Elon Musk lost more than $100 billion in 2022 and no longer holds the title of world’s richest person.
• His net worth fell so much that he broke the Guinness World Record for “largest loss of personal fortune in history.”
• Musk is still worth $144.4 billion today, Forbes estimates.

Elon Musk has kicked off 2023 by breaking a world record — for money lost.

The Tesla and Twitter CEO erased so much of his fortune in the last year that Guinness World Records recognized him for it. He’s officially broken the world record for the “largest loss of personal fortune in history,” the organization said in a press release Friday.

Forbes recently estimated Musk’s net worth had plummeted by $183 billion in just over a year, while Bloomberg placed the estimate at $200 billion.

Before Musk, the previous record for personal fortune wiped out, much lower at $58.6 billion, was set by Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son in 2000.

Musk’s net worth peaked in November 2021, when it reached $340 billion, according to Bloomberg estimates. But Tesla shares, responsible for most of Musk’s wealth, entered free fall last year, dropping 65% in 2022. Their drastic fall picked up speed after Musk bought Twitter in October.

As a result, Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, losing the title to Bernard Arnault, the head of the French company that owns Louis Vuitton.

Today, Musk is worth $144.4 billion, according to the latest Forbes estimates.

Allen Weisselberg, right, stands behind then President-elect Donald Trump during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Jan. 11, 2017.

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• Ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg, 75, was convicted of rampant payroll tax fraud at Trump’s company.
• A judge will likely order he immediately begin serving 5 months in NYC’s notorious Rikers Island.
• Weisselberg’s jail coach says he is ‘prepared to do his time honorably and quietly.’

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump’s top money man for decades, is braced to begin serving an expected five-month tax-fraud sentence on Tuesday at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, his jail coach told Insider.

Weisselberg, 75, is the lone executive going to jail in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s prosecution of a decade-long tax-fraud scheme at the Trump Organization, the former president’s real-estate and golf-resort company.

“He understands he will be taken into custody by the Department of Correction immediately” upon sentencing, said Craig Rothfeld, a prison consultant Weisselberg hired to advise him on his upcoming sentence. 

Trump’s former finance chief will walk into the courtroom a free man, but be escorted out in handcuffs, Rothfeld said.

And while he is more accustomed to the Mercedes luxury vehicles the Trump Organization once provided him, Weisselberg will then step into a New York City Department of Correction van or bus for the trip to Rikers.

Rikers is notorious for understaffing, unsanitary conditions, and violence, which have been long documented by journalists; 19 detainees died in custody there last year, many by suicide or suspected overdoses, according to Gothamist.

Weisselberg will stay in his business suit for the trip, Rothfeld said.

Once at Rikers’ admissions facility, the Eric M. Taylor Center, he will be issued the jail’s standard “uniform” of tan pants and a white T-shirt or sweatshirt, and his suit and tie will be vouchered and stowed by staff, Rothfeld said.

“Mr. Weisselberg is prepared to do his time honorably, quietly and without incident so that he may return to his family and loved ones as soon as possible,” Rothfeld said.

Rothfeld, of Inside Outside Ltd., is also a prison consultant for Harvey Weinstein. He has helped the disgraced Hollywood producer navigate New York’s prison system since he was sentenced in 2020 to 23 years for the rape and sexual assault of two women.

Rothfeld declined to describe specifics of Weisselberg’s preparation for what is expected to be a term of 100 days behind bars. Under city law, inmates get a third off their sentences for good behavior.

Himself a veteran of Rikers, Rothfeld did say this — it won’t be easy.

“Rikers is already hard on a 20-year-old,” he said. “Generally speaking, someone in their ’70s will have added challenges.”

A board containing confiscated shanks from Rikers Island is displayed during a press conference with Mayor Eric Adams on Rikers Island on June 22, 2022.

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Weisselberg is hoping to be assigned to an individual cell or to protective custody, Rothfeld said.

“Even if he wasn’t the former CFO and a dear friend of the former president for five decades, everyone who is 75 years old needs to be looked at differently, whether you’re Allen Weisselberg or not,” Rothfeld added.

He’s hoping not to be assigned to one of Rikers’ open dorm rooms, where up to 60 detainees are housed under the supervision of a single correction officer.

The doorms have “20 beds down the left wall, 20 down the right wall and 20 down the middle,” the jail coach explained. 

“The majority of people in these dorms are people held without bail due to the violent nature of their crimes,” he said. 

“You have competing gang factions, ethnic and racial conflict. It’s a fuse box waiting to go off. And the Department of Correction needs more staffing. It’s not their fault.” 

Weisselberg’s jail housing will not be assigned until after his admission.

“The health and safety of our staff and every individual in our custody is paramount to us,” said James Boyd, deputy commissioner for public information for the city Department of Correction. 

“Every individual who enters DOC’s custody is housed in accordance with our policies. It is our agency’s mission to create a safe and supportive environment for everyone who enters our custody. “

The Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, with the Manhattan skyline in the background.

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Weisselberg admitted to running a decade-long payroll tax scam as the CFO of Trump Organization, saving himself $900,000 in taxes and hundreds of thousands of dollars more for fellow second-tier executives at the company.

He was promised a five-month sentence as part of an August plea deal. The deal required he pay $2 million in back taxes and penalties and that he testify truthfully against the company at trial.

In November, Weisselberg took the stand against his company in the same courtroom where he’ll be sentenced after lunch on Tuesday.

Whether he testified truthfully remains open to debate.

Manhattan prosecutors said during closing arguments that Weisselberg “shaded the truth” when he told the jury that he had zero intention of helping the company.

It appears that jurors, too, did not believe that “zero intention” portion of Weisselberg’s testimony — otherwise, they legally could not have convicted him, former Manhattan prosecutors told Insider last month.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has warned that he could impose a higher sentence than five months if he finds Weisselberg failed to testify truthfully.

Weisselberg’s lawyer, Nicholas Gravante, Jr., declined to comment; he has maintained that Weisselberg did testify truthfully. 

Prosecutors, too, have declined to say if they will ask for more time, but the office has noted that Weisselberg’s indictment, guilty plea, and truthful description of the payroll tax scheme were crucial to last month’s 17-count Trump Organization conviction. 

The Trump Organization now faces up to $1.6 million in fines; Merchan is scheduled to set the amount at a January 13 sentencing.

Nurses at Mount Sinai in Manhattan are on strike.

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• Thousands of nurses are on strike in New York City, calling for safer staffing.
• Nurses told Insider that short staffing weighs on them as providers, and hurts patients.
• The strike means some procedures are rescheduled, and patients transferred to different hospitals.

When the pandemic hit, Philipp Carabuena says ten of his coworkers left within two months. 

Carabuena works in the neurological ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He’s been a nurse for 13 years. Even before the pandemic, he said, there weren’t enough people on staff. Now, “we’ve had increased staffing shortages and people doing 24-hour shifts, which is unsafe,” he told Insider.

Carabuena is one of the over 7,000 nurses out on the picket line in New York City this week, with thousands of nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore Medical Center walking out on Monday over demands for better and safer staffing.

Philipp Carabuena holds a sign referring to travel nurses.

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“Nurses don’t want to strike,” the New York States Nurses Association, the union representing workers, said in a statement. “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients.” 

The nurses across the two medical centers are among the thousands of workers pushing for better conditions — not just higher pay. Instead, like other healthcare workers, the nurses see filling staffing shortages and maintaining safe nurse-to-patient ratios as key to retention, their own safety, and that of their patients. That comes as hospitals scramble to keep running, and bring in traditionally highly paid travel nurses to try and fill the holes.

“It’s not about the money,” Lisette Kimbere, an oncological nurse practitioner and member of the contract action team, said. “If we get paid better, but the conditions don’t improve, we won’t stay. And that is really the problem.”

For Linda Cesaria, a medical-surgical nurse for 13 years, the picket line is a rollercoaster of “mixed emotions.” Cesaria works on a geriatric floor, caring for patients with conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s. She said that there’s been about one nurse for every seven to eight patients — which is “very difficult, impossible, and not doable anymore.” In the ICU, nurses are supposed to have just two patients, but Carabuena said they’ve been juggling three. 

Having safer staffing ratios would mean Cesaria’s patients “get the best quality care that a nurse takes an oath to do.”

Roi Permaul, an ICU nurse, said that it’s been like a “revolving door” of staffers coming and going. It weighs on nurses to see their coworkers overburdened and stressed, all while balancing the load of their own work, he said.

“We’re concerned that the staffing ratios that we have right now are not adequate to provide proper care for these patients,” Permaul said. “It’s leading to them getting harmed. It’s leading to us getting overworked, burnt out, and simply leaving the workforce.”

Rescheduled surgeries and transferred patients

Because management knew a potential strike was coming, Mount Sinai began transferring infant patients to other hospitals, and diverting away ambulances. All elective surgeries and procedures at Montefiore are being rescheduled, and appointments at their ambulatory locations postponed.

Patient impact is what’s “most distressful to us,” Frances Cartwright, chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai, said in a video statement. The impact of the strikes means some patients may need to be referred out or transferred, Cartwright said. Per CNN, the hospital is also bringing in “hundreds” of travel nurses — experienced nurses who take up temporary contracts with different hospitals across the country, often paid at a far higher rate than staff nurses.

“This is a sad day for New York City,” Montefiore Medical Center said in a statement, saying that “NYSNA’s leadership has decided to walk away from the bedsides of their patients.” Management has already offered a 19.1% compounded wage increase to the striking nurses, both Montefiore and Mount Sinai said. 

“NYSNA continues its reckless behavior,” Mount Sinai said in a statement, also noting that nurses there had turned down the 19.1% offer. “Our first priority is the safety of our patients. We’re prepared to minimize disruption, and we encourage Mount Sinai nurses to continue providing the world-class care they’re known for, in spite of NYSNA’s strike.”

The union is urging patients to still get medical care if they need it, strike or no strike.

Scabby the rat at the nurses’ strike.

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Sara Lobman is a past and present patient at Mount Sinai. Lobman was in and out of the hospital in 2019, getting treated for lymphoma, and, while in remission, still has to come in every six months.

During Lobman’s treatment, “I never heard a nurse, no matter how busy, no matter how hairy, say a cross word to anyone.” Lobman, who works at a Ellio’s Pizza factory and is part of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), vowed to join the nurses if and when they ever went on strike. She kept that promise on Monday.

The impact the strike will have on patients is “not as much as not having adequate staffing,” Lobman said.”It’s very easy to fix that problem given what they’re asking for.”

“I don’t anticipate this strike will last long, because they will feel it and it will hurt,” Carabuena said.

• Thousands violently stormed Brazil’s Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court.
• Jair Bolsonaro supporters refuse to accept his loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the  presidential election.
• Lula blamed Bolsonaro for instigating the riots and called the protesters fascists.

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed several federal government buildings in Brasilia, in a scene reminiscent of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump.

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• An appeals court is set to weigh in on E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against Donald Trump.
• Trump and the DOJ argue that he can’t be personally sued for statements he made in office. 
• Carroll’s lawyers argue that the statements in question had nothing to do with his job.

A defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump will be heard by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Tuesday, and while the case stems from a rape allegation, what’s at stake is whether presidents can be sued for comments they make in office. 

The case concerns longtime Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation against Trump, and his subsequent denials. 

In June 2019, Carroll wrote in an essay for New York Magazine that Trump forced himself on her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s. 

Trump was president at the time Carroll went public with the rape claim, and he loudly denied her allegation in a series of statements to the press, in which he insulted her appearance and claimed she made the accusation up to sell her memoir. Trump went so far as to claim he never met Carroll, but that was quickly refuted with an image of the two chatting at a party in 1987. 

Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, saying her career suffered “as a direct result of Trump’s defamatory statements.”

Trump — and the Department of Justice, which later intervened in the case — have argued that he is protected by a federal law known as the Westfall Act.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is pictured in New York in 2020.

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The Westfall Act protects government employees from being sued for actions in the line of their work. A common use of the act is protecting US Postal Service workers from being sued for car accidents they’re involved in. Instead, the US government becomes the defendant in such suits. 

The DOJ has argued in court filings that Trump’s comments were protected by the Westfall Act because part of the job of being president is “speaking to the public and the media on matters of public concern — including, at times, responding to allegations about the elected official’s own private conduct bearing on his fitness to hold office.”

Carroll’s legal team has countered that Trump “acted with private motives, and not in furtherance of any official federal purpose or function, in seeking to punish and humiliate Carroll for revealing his decades-old crime,” according to their court filings. 

The legal question of whether Trump was protected by the Westfall Act has divided judges as the case has made its way through the courts. 

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan sided with Carroll’s lawyers, ruling in October 2020 that Trump wasn’t acting in his official capacity when he denied Carroll’s rape allegation.

“His comments concerned an alleged sexual assault that took place several decades before he took office, and the allegations have no relationship to the official business of the United States,” Kaplan wrote. 

But when Trump’s lawyers appealed Kaplan’s decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a three-judge panel was split on the issue, favoring Trump 2-1.

However, the panel agreed there was some uncertainty over whether Trump’s comments were made within the scope of his employment, and ultimately passed the case to the DC Court of Appeals since the case focuses on DC law. That court will hear oral arguments in the appeal on Tuesday.

The DC Court of Appeals will be hearing the case “en banc,” meaning every judge in the court will hear the case and offer an opinion — a situation reserved for particularly complex cases. 

What’s at stake

The appeals court decision likely won’t have too much of an impact on Carroll, since she filed a second lawsuit against Trump in November.

That lawsuit also stems from her rape allegation, and includes a defamation complaint over Trump calling her allegations a “Hoax and a lie” on his social media platform, Truth, in October 2022. Because he made those comments after leaving the White House, he won’t be able to claim Westfall Act protection. 

The second lawsuit also includes a claim of battery. Previously, Carroll had not been able to sue Trump for the alleged rape itself, because the statute of limitations had expired. But a new New York law, the Adult Survivors Act, temporarily allows the filing of lawsuits claiming sexual assault in cases where the statute of limitations has expired. 

This means that one way or another, Carroll’s allegations against Trump are likely to go in front of a jury — if Trump doesn’t settle the case first. 

But the case is still important when it comes to determining just how much protection the Westfall Act offers a sitting president. 

If the court sides with Trump, it could further expand the protections a president is given, making it incredibly difficult to sue a president for anything he or she says while in office — even if those statements are libelous. It also means that the suit will likely be dismissed, since the federal government can’t be sued for defamation. 

Denny Chin, the lone dissenter on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who sided with Carroll, underlined how Trump winning on this issue could have ramifications for the presidency: 

Chin wrote that “no President could be held accountable for damage done in front of a microphone or in an official meeting — whether defaming a citizen, exposing classified national security information, or inciting a riot.”

“This is not, and should not be, the law,” Chin wrote. 

Shanlon Wu, a partner at DC law firm Cohen Seglias, told Insider that the case is so specific to Trump’s personal situation that a win for Trump wouldn’t necessarily apply to future presidents. 

However, he said one potential consequence of the court siding with Carroll is that it could open Trump up to lawsuits from other people he verbally attacked in office. 

“That makes it very high stakes for Trump, but not as a matter of legal precedent,” Wu said.

Another thing to keep in mind: if the court sides with Carroll, her case could be heard in a matter of months. 

Carroll’s lawyers have petitioned to try both cases at the same time, and the current trial date for the first lawsuit is scheduled for April 10. 

On December 30, just in time for New Year’s, Netflix launched a series of workout classes in collaboration with Nike. The program will eventually offer 30 hours of exercise dropped in two batches, a collection that pales in comparison to massive back catalogs of programs like Peloton or even popular YouTube fitness gurus who post new workouts every day. Likely, Netflix is testing the waters for a larger expansion into lifestyle programming, leaning heavily on the Nike name to lend the pivot into fitness legitimacy. But zooming through the workouts, I found that, so far at least, Netflix falls flat on the fitness front.

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I initially set out to sample Netflix’s Nike workout classes over the course of two weeks or even a month. It turns out, many of the classes are so short (just five or ten minutes) and there are so few, I needed only a few days to get a sense of what was available on the platform. Indeed, by Day 3, I made a major discovery that led me to abandon Netflix as a workout resource entirely.

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Day 1: The hunt for the classes

I try to locate the Nike-branded classes. At the time I started this experiment (January 3), the classes were not being served up to me on my home screen, though Netflix now seems to be pushing the workouts to more users. (When I checked on January 5, I saw it in my New Releases section.)

First, I open the iPhone Netflix app and search “workout.” The results show two Nike workout classes but also a random collection of movies (Southpaw), documentaries (Human: The World Within), and Beyoncé’s Homecoming documentary. To be fair, Beyoncé did some insane core work in preparation for that Coachella performance, so I guess the algorithm is working. Sort of.

I turn to the Netflix app on my TV and do find what appears to be the Nike workout hub. Sorting through the classes is a disaster. Look, maybe I’m spoiled by Peloton, but that app allows you to curate tens of thousands of classes based on factors like length of workout, type of class, which part of your body you want to exercise, preferred music, and favorite instructor. The Netflix collection offers absolutely no ability to search and narrow down your options. Instead, classes are grouped together into “shows” like “10 minute workouts” (but…what kind of workouts?) and “kickstart fitness with the basics” (but…how long are the classes?). In each “show” are episodes, i.e. classes.

I open “two weeks to a stronger core” and find a mishmash of classes. Some are labeled yoga classes, some labeled HIT, some labeled “bodyweight burn.” Immediately, it’s clear that these classes are aimed at users who do not know exactly what kinds of workouts they like and are hoping to explore a variety. That would be great if the instructors offered more guidance on proper form so relative newbies can avoid injury. As it stands, instructors jump into the class without much instruction. And for someone who already has a routine or is hoping to form one—arm day, leg day, cardio day, yoga day, etc.—the inability to curate based on those factors will prove a major deterrent.

Some classes are 35 minutes and some are 5 minutes. Why? Unclear. Bafflingly there are seven classes in the “two weeks to a stronger core” group. Am I supposed to do one class every other day? All seven classes twice over two weeks? No explanation given.

Indeed, lack of information and transparency seems to be a major theme. The titles of the classes also do not provide crucial information like whether you need equipment. Only after I flick on the first abs class do I realize it’s only five minutes and, no, I didn’t need to drag those weights over to my TV. I finish and switch over to Bodyweight Burn: Lower Body Basics, which is 11 minutes long, hoping for a bit more of a challenge. After all, “basics” doesn’t always mean easy—squats and planks are basic moves, but do them long enough and you’ll definitely feel it. But it’s impossible to tell from scrolling through the classes how difficult each one is, and sadly, I find that this one is not particularly strenuous. I give up and cue up a weightlifting class from a competitor.

Day 2: Where’d the music go?

My editor sends me a Netflix blog post about the classes that provides the details I was missing yesterday, like length of class, equipment required, and challenge level. It’s annoying that locating this information requires a Google search. Right now, all the classes seem to be labeled “beginner.” Later in the week, I’ll find there’s a wide range within this “beginner” category, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Today, I search specifically for yoga classes on the Netflix app. Several of the episodes are advertised as “flow” classes, which typically means the class will be made up of a series of movements that you slowly build upon for an increasingly challenging experience. The one I try doesn’t feature a flow at all, but a series of disappointing exercise drills that are yoga-adjacent—a limited number of yoga poses mixed with Pilates and bodyweight strength exercises that most yoga teachers would never include in their classes. Next I start a 20-minute flow, which delivers on its promise of being structured like an actual yoga class, though I doubt anyone who is already devoted to a yoga studio will be tempted to abandon their regular practice for these workouts: The classes I found did not exceed 20 minutes, whereas habitual yogis often seek out 60- to 90-minute sessions, and the Nike classes on Netflix do not seem to offer more advanced moves like arm balances or inversions.

I tack on a 10-minute HIT abs class that turns out to be far more challenging than the core class I took the previous day. It helps that this instructor, unlike the ones I encountered on Day 1, actually explains the purpose of the exercises and cues users on how to do the moves rather than throwing beginners into the deep end with no instruction on proper form for a plank or squat.

I’m warming up to the lesson when I notice that, puzzlingly, there’s no music in the background of the class. Only the instructor’s bland aphorisms and heavy breathing break up the silence. It’s…kind of creepy? The music in the other Netflix classes isn’t exactly Grammy-worthy. It’s all generic, wordless pop. But it’s something.

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Day 3: In which I abandon the Netflix app for my new favorite instructor

My only positive experience so far has been with a trainer from the HIT class on Day 2 who introduced herself as “K.G.” in a charming New Zealand accent, so I’m determined to take another one of her classes. A Google search suggests that K.G.’s name is Kirsty Godso.

Kirsty, it turns out, already has 276K followers on Instagram and is a very successful Nike athlete. She has trained the likes of Kaia Gerber and Olivia Rodrigo. I search her name in the Netflix app and am served…all of the Nike workout classes on the platform. Not helpful. I scroll through the options trying to locate her face and eventually come across the one other class she teaches, a 30-minute pyramid class. The plank circuit kicks my butt. I’m officially a Kirsty fan. I may or may not follow her on Instagram now.

After perusing Kirsty’s posts about her Nike workouts, I begin to suspect that Netflix is not creating this content at all but just plopping Nike’s already recorded classes onto their streaming service. I download the Nike Training Club app on my phone, and sure enough, I find the exact same workouts currently available on Netflix, plus hundreds (probably thousands) more.

This isn’t a secret: Netflix does say on its blog that it’s bringing the Nike Training Club classes to its platform for the first time. But a cursory search of Twitter reveals that I was not alone in thinking that Netflix and Nike were collaborating on all-new workouts.

It turns out that these classes are completely free on the Nike Training Club app, which offers a far superior experience. Nike Training Club actually lets you sort and curate classes by muscle group, time, instructor, etc. There are specific workouts for pregnancy and postpartum (including using your stroller!), workouts for runners, workouts with Megan Thee Stallion. It even tells you which classes do and don’t have music, depending on your personal preference. (So that explains the eerily silent class.)

At this point I abandon the Netflix app, which is simply not designed to narrow down which classes you want to take, and stick with Nike Training Club app. It provides more information, offers more variety, and can be projected onto your TV. I save a few classes with Kirsty for later in the week.

Read More: How Even Super-Short Workouts Can Improve Your Health

Over the next 24 hours, I try to puzzle through why Netflix and Nike would team up for this venture. Nike’s motivation seems clear: They want to expose their classes to a wider audience, promote their brand, and maybe sell some of the cute workout merchandise that the instructors are wearing in their videos. It does seem strange that there’s no branding for the Nike Training Club app on the Netflix platform—instructors never mention it, nor do the descriptions of the episodes. But presumably Netflix isn’t keen to advertise that the same classes are available for free on another platform.

Still, why wouldn’t Netflix drop more of Nike’s videos on its platform so that those seeking to develop a daily or weekly routine would keep coming back to take new classes? Why wouldn’t they redesign the interface to make it easier for users to search and curate? And couldn’t they have invested more marketing dollars in promoting the trainers on the platform? Users often flock to a workout and stick with it because of their parasocial relationships with fitness gurus: TikTok fitness influencers, for instance, have built entire brands on their classes by sharing details about their personal lives, showing off their home gyms, and filming videos of their daily diets.

My guess is that Netflix is using these Nike workouts as a trial balloon for future ventures into lifestyle content. They’re probably tracking how many users engage with the videos, for how long, and whether they stick with the program. It’s easy to imagine the streamer churning out recipe videos to compete with the New York Times Cooking’s YouTube channel, education content to compete with MasterClass, along with fitness classes to compete with a platform like Apple Fitness+. They’re relatively cheap to produce, especially compared to, say, Stranger Things, and lifestyle videos are among YouTube’s most popular streams.

But, for now, it will be hard to tempt anyone from a platform like Peloton or Mirror or even YouTube to Netflix’s Nike Fitness classes. The Netflix platform simply does not support the type of curation, variability, and catalog size that are offered by their competitors. Current Netflix members might take the classes if they encounter them while browsing, but if the streaming service is hoping to use its fitness content to entice new subscribers, it’s going to have to do a lot better than offering something people can get elsewhere for free.

Two years and two days after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in protest of the 2020 presidential election results, arch-supporters of the ousted Brazilian leader Jair “Trump of the Tropics” Bolsonaro staged an insurrection of their own. Draped in the colors of the Brazilian flag, some thousands of Bolsonaro supporters descended onto the Brazilian capital and ransacked its pillars of government—including its Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace—in what has since been dubbed the most significant attack on Brazilian democracy in nearly 60 years.

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Observers have long warned that Trump’s “Stop the Steal” playbook could spread to Brazil, where, like the former American president, Bolsonaro has spread unfounded claims of electoral fraud in order to undermine voter trust in an election that he ultimately lost. Now that it has, perhaps the biggest question hanging over the country is what Jan. 8 will mean for the future of Brazilian democracy and the Bolsonarismo movement trying to take it down.

A tale of two failed coups

The attack, which took place exactly one week into Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s new term, marks a tumultuous start for the country’s leftist leader. After securing a narrow victory over Bolsonaro in the county’s October presidential election, Lula pledged to mend the country’s deep political divisions.

But Bolsonaro and his most loyal supporters had other plans. Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat and unsuccessfully challenged the results, and his supporters began staging demonstrations and forming encampments outside the country’s military barracks, calling on the armed forces to intervene in support of Bolsonaro, an ex-army captain. While the military was ultimately called up to help restore order in the Brazilian capital, it did not do so at the behest of the Bolsonaristas, more than 1,200 of whom were arrested, according to Brazilian authorities.

Whereas the goal of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 was to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory, the aim of Bolsonaristas on Jan. 8, 2023 was ostensibly to force the military’s hand.

“This was clearly a bold-faced attempt to ask the military to intervene and to trash the institutions of democracy by doing so,” says Christopher Sabatini, a senior researcher fellow for Latin America at Chatham House and founder of Americas Quarterly. Unsuccessful as they were, Sabatini added, it’s still too soon to assess the damage, both physical and otherwise, done to Brazilian democracy, especially if security forces or federal authorities are deemed to have aided or abetted the attack. A pro-Bolsonaro federal district governor in Brasilia has already been removed from his post for 90 days over his failure to contain the attacks.

“Look at the pictures of Brasília right now and you see the military patrolling the streets,” says Sabatini. “That’s never good, even if they are doing it in this case to protect institutions.”

Bolsonaro’s dubious defense

Bolsonaro, who watched the scenes unfolding in Brasília from thousands of miles away in Florida, issued a tweet denouncing the “destruction and invasion of public buildings,” but rejected criticisms by Lula that he was responsible for them—a somewhat dubious defense, given the former president’s longstanding effort to cast doubt on the reliability of Brazil’s electronic voting system, as well as his refusal to accept the legitimacy of his defeat.

While Bolsonaro did not goad his supporters to march on the capital as Trump did, his behavior before and after the election did enough to show them the way, says Sabatini: “You can’t give a mob the matches and the gasoline and point them towards a house and then say, ‘I wasn’t guilty of starting the fire.’”

Brazilian democracy remains stable, albeit weakened

Pressure is mounting from Washington for the Biden administration to extradite the former president back to Brazil, although the government in Brasília has not made a formal request. Any extradition plans could be further complicated by news of Bolsonaro’s hospitalization, which his wife Michelle shared on Instagram Monday. But regardless of whether Bolsonaro is ultimately held responsible for the attack on the Brazilian capital, the reality is that this crisis in Brazilian democracy isn’t necessarily bad for Bolsonaro.

Much like Trump, the former Brazilian leader has already succeeded in cultivating a politics of grievance and shoring up support among his base. While the events of Jan. 8 will undoubtedly undermine Bolsonaro at least temporarily, particularly among those in Brazil who feel that his supporters crossed a line, the Trump playbook suggests that the setback could be shortlived. Trump, after all, continues to enjoy the relevance of being seen as a de facto leader of the Republican Party—a role that, as the leader of the opposition, Bolsonaro also claims.

“He’s still got massive political capital,” says Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of international relations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, a university and think tank in São Paulo. “It would be premature to think that this episode has weakened him.”

As of Jan. 9, Brazilian democracy remains stable, albeit weakened. How long that remains will depend at least in part on Lula, who pledged on Monday to prosecute the “vandals, neo-fascists and fanatics” who participated in the riots and his government. Should the Brazilian government learn anything from the U.S.’s experience with Jan. 6, it’s that while they may benefit from short-term unity in the aftermath of Jan. 8, maintaining that unity long enough to shore up Brazilian democracy will prove considerably harder—a weakness that Bolsonaro and his supporters will undoubtedly seek to exploit.

“They are going to remain a presence or at least a shadow on Brazilian democracy,” says Sabatini, “at least under Lula’s term, and probably indefinitely. This wasn’t just a flash mob—quite the opposite.”

Airline company Air France-KLM is notifying the customers of its loyalty program Flying Blue of a data breach.

Airline company Air France-KLM announced it has suffered a data breach, data belonging to customers of its loyalty program Flying Blue were exposed.

The Flying Blue loyalty program is used by other airlines, including Aircalin, Kenya Airways, TAROM, and Transavia. The company did not provide details about the security breach, it is not clear if threat actors had access to its infrastructure.

The company notified impacted customers of suspicious activity related to their accounts, and the notice sent to the customers informed them that some of their personal information might have been exposed.

Compromised data include names, email addresses, Flying Blue numbers and level, miles balance, phone numbers, and latest transactions. Air France-KLM pointed out that no financial information was exposed.

“Our security operations teams have detected suspicious behavior by an unauthorized entity in relation to your account. We have immediately implemented corrective action to prevent further exposure of your data,” reads the notification sent to customers.

The airline locked customers’ accounts and required customers to reset their passwords in order to regain access.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Have you ever been watching a movie and had a burning desire to sniff Ryan Reynolds? An Israeli tech firm is working to make that a reality.

On Sunday, the annual Consumer Electronics Show wrapped up in Las Vegas. During the four-day expo, hundreds of companies showcased their wares, with products running from Elon Musk’s Boring Company demonstrating their supposed transport tunnel system of the future to the latest in smart home appliances. But Israeli firm iRomaScents may have had the most unusual ideas on display. 

Founded in 2019, iRomaScents plans to introduce “the next generation of scented movies & commercials.” On its website, the company says it has plans for three applications of the technology. Retail applications will provide a “smarter way of shopping for fragrance,” the company says.

“Buying an aftershave today is a long process, at the end of which, after smelling several products, shoppers just give up and leave the store,” founder and CEO Avner Gal told CTech. “We are able to provide the consumer, according to their requirements and preferences, with the smell of the product that suits them best alongside three different alternatives, and the possibility that they will make a purchase is much higher.”

The other two applications will allow audiences and gamers to get more immersed than ever in movies, TV shows and video games. At last, film buffs will be able to smell the sweat as Tom Cruise runs through his next Mission: Impossible. 

Although arguably the funkiest, iRomaScents was just one of dozens of Israeli tech firms on display at CES. Other companies included CORRactions, which produces tech that monitors subconscious movements to determine a person’s cognitive state; SavorEat, which offers on-demand vegetarian meals prepared by a robot chef; cutting-edge carseat company babyark, as well several autonomous driving technology and other mobility firms. 

An official Israel Pavilion displayed the best of the country’s latest developments in artificial intelligence, vehicle safety, digital health and other technology.  

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