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开场白：

Happy Monday! I hoped you had a great weekend! The weather has been on roller coaster lately. It was almost 30 degree on Saturday and now it has dropped to low teens.

So, last week has been pretty crazy if you pay attention to geopolitics and financial markets. A couple of major events took place. But, what stroke me the most is the the total collapse of FTX, a crypto exchange. Unfortunately, given the nature of the topic, I can’t discuss more here, But, feel free to check out the stories online. Or, we can talk about in my next Douyin live streaming on this coming Friday (evening).

Daily Phrase:

A tall order: an unreasonable or difficult demand. 一项艰巨的任务

They thought that the deadline was a tall order.

新闻摘要：

In today’s episode, let’s continue our topic on big layoffs that are happening in the tech sector in the U.S.. The most shocking one is that, FB laid off 11k workers on  last Wednesday. Yes, 11000 employees! These big layoffs are causing some big pains in people’s lives.

• Why the Twitter cuts and Facebook layoffs could be costly for California (ABC10)
• Meta layoffs: Many Indians on H1B visa fired by Facebook have 60 days to find a job or return to India (IndiaToday)
• Silicon Valley layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back (Vox)
• Silicon Valley’s honeymoon with wealth is ending. Employees are packing bags (thePrint)

Word of the Day (WoD):

• Legislature: the legislative body of a country or state. 立法机构
• Protocol: the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions. 规则
• Gloat: contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure. 幸灾乐祸
• Influx: an arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things. 大量涌入的人流或物流