How Trump’s Meeting With Silicon Valley Went: Here’s What We’re Reading Today

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

1. ‘We have no formal chain of command here’

“President-elect Donald Trump hosted some of the technology industry’s top leaders at Trump Tower in New York today, and told them to contact him directly if he could help them with their problems. ‘Anything we can do to help this go along, and we’re going to be there for you,’ Trump said. ‘You’ll call my people, you’ll call me. It doesn’t make any difference. We have no formal chain of command around here.’

+1: This picture perfectly captures the first meeting between Trump and all the tech CEOs who opposed him. – Business Insider

+1: Silicon Valley’s power brokers want you to think they’re different. But they’re just average robber barons. – The Outline

3. Rising with cost of living, Canada Child Care Benefit will cost billions more by 2026

“The Canada Child Benefit isn’t indexed to inflation for now, and the Liberals haven’t agreed to do that until 2020 — after the next scheduled federal election in 2019.

“The parliamentary budget officer previously forecasted that the cost to the government would fall over time to the same level of spending as seen under the previous Conservative system of benefits and tax credits which the Liberals replaced with the new, income-tested benefit.”

CBC News

2. UN says Aleppo assault ‘most likely’ a war crime

“A ceasefire brokered by Russia, Assad’s most powerful ally, and Turkey was intended to end years of fighting in the city, giving the Syrian leader his biggest victory in more than five years of war. The evacuation of rebel-held areas was expected to start in the early hours of Wednesday, but did not materialise.

“The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, said he was appalled that the deal appeared to have collapsed.”

Globe and Mail

4. How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election

“The anecdotes are different but the narrative is the same across battlegrounds, where Democratic operatives lament a one-size-fits-all approach drawn entirely from pre-selected data — operatives spit out ‘the model, the model,’ as they complain about it — guiding Mook’s decisions on field, television, everything else. ”

Politico

+1: What was James Comey thinking? – Esquire

5. Finding North America’s lost medieval city

“Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.”

Ars Technica