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Date:2025-04-15 13:58:06
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
For years, as part of a progressive work culture that prized free expression and open debate, Google encouraged employees to bring their whole selves to work.
And Google employees did. On internal message boards and on the streets, Jessica Guynn reports, they agitated for change around the globe and inside their own company.
But when employees held sit-ins at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, earlier this month to protest a $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services, the company called the police. Then it fired them.
Will other employers crack down?
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A disconcerting question has been burning up the internet: Why, in the name of all that's holy, does the Nestle Drumstick refuse to melt?
Social media users, particularly on TikTok, have been conducting science experiments with the frozen dairy dessert in recent weeks to prove that it doesn’t melt, Amaris Encinas reports.
Most of the melt tests came in response to a video posted by the brand in February that showed a young woman who was “studying” until her drumstick melted. She held a hand-held blowtorch to the cone, which left the cone seemingly unaffected. The video left many confused and concerned.
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