India’s Silly Security Threat | Save the Country in Four Hours Flat

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Friday Aug 23, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Why TikTok Is Giving India Laughs … and Its Government Nightmares]( Police officers are sharing videos of themselves dancing and singing, and it's making officials worry about discipline and security. In July, an entire SWAT team of police in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was transferred from their posts. Their transgression? The five police officers had filmed slow-motion action shots of themselves strutting purposefully toward the camera, cocking their guns and pretend-firing at invisible bad guys, using the video-sharing app TikTok. Staged against a high-voltage song, the cringe-inducing yet entertaining video went viral. Who could resist watching cocky cops making a spectacle of themselves while trying to look cool? But the top brass wasn’t amused. “We do not sanction unprofessional display of weapons and grotesque caricaturing of police,” the state police said in a statement. Yet the SWAT team is hardly alone. India’s states and cities are grappling with a spree of police officers and other government employees who’ve shared videos of themselves, in uniform or while they are at work, on TikTok over the past few weeks. [READ MORE]( 2 [Flashback]( [Flashback]( [The Beauty Entrepreneur Who Built a Lasting Legacy]( Long before C.J. Walker made her fortune, Annie Malone became a self-made millionaire and revolutionized the Black beauty industry. Last month, California became the first state to ban discrimination based on hairstyle with the Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, a response to several high profile cases where people of color were denied jobs or sent home from school for wearing locks or braids. Weeks later, New York followed suit. Meanwhile, Netflix has announced that it’ll produce a four-part series about Black cosmetics icon Madam C.J. Walker, starring Octavia Spencer and Tiffany Haddish. But while we’re all remembering Walker — née Sarah Breedlove, a Black cosmetics entrepreneur who is often referred to as the first self-made female millionaire in America — let’s not forget about her precursors. Specifically her mentor and inspiration, Annie Turnbo Malone, a Black woman and inventor who built a cosmetics empire valued at $14 million half a century before the repeal of Jim Crow and long before Walker. [READ MORE]( 3 [Provocateurs]( [Provocateurs]( [Aubrey Marcus Wants to Pump You Up. Should You Let Him?]( This performance guru believes his keys to “total human optimization” can power purpose-driven communities. Aubrey Marcus had a dream. Not the deep sleep kind, nor that of Martin Luther King Jr.— though there was certainly a lesson to be learned. Marcus spoke to a dragon while on ayahuasca, and now he wants to change the world. “The key to learning is radical, honest, vulnerable introspection,” says Marcus. “I have a lot of tools to help me with that. One of them is my plant medicine journeys.” [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: Wise Bread]( [The Highest Paying Cashback Card Has Hit the Market]( Using a credit card is a fact of life — from buying groceries to online purchases to rideshares. So why not get cash for spending it? Instead of a regular credit card that might offer you rewards or travel points, cash-back cards give you a chance to earn actual money to spend however you’d like. But how do you choose from all the cash-back cards on the market? 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[Bottom line: There’s cash back waiting for you, so stop waiting and start earning.]( 4 [Flashback]( [These Brutal Blindings Shook a Nation ... and They're Still Happening]( This blinding case eventually led to repercussions — but its ill effects still echo in one Indian state. 5 [Provocateurs]( [Brazil’s 'Game of Thrones': Tensions Within Jair Bolsonaro’s Inner Circle]( The far-right president has surrounded himself with a turbulent mix of ideologues and pragmatists. 6 [Good Sh*t]( [This Retro-Feel Game Puts the Fate of a Nation in Your Hands]( In The Occupation your job is to uncover the truth behind a terrorist attack in only four hours. 7 [Fast Forward]( [Playing Catch-Up With Conservatives: Can Startup Energy Help Democrats?]( A healthy startup environment may be giving Democrats a leg up for 2020 … if these firms don’t sell out before then. 8 [Good Sh*t]( [This Raincoat Made From Algae Offers a Message of Hope]( Using carbon sequestration to make plastic could pave the way for carbon-negative materials. 9 [True Story]( [Eavesdropping on a Pedophile-Protecting Priest]( When a former Catholic school kid ran into disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law, he set out to find out what brought the prelate down. 10 [The Huddle]( [The World's Best Rugby Team Is Bleeding Top Players … to Japan]( An exodus from New Zealand’s All Blacks is threatening the legacy of the world’s most successful rugby nation. You Should Know This [OZY and Oprah's New TV Show ...]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](