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Weekend Edition:
Checkout Shock
Good morning and welcome to your weekend, Core friends!
Nothing beats waking up to birds singing, coffee brewing, and... wait, what's that other noise? Oh, right. It's dreamy $2 Shein tops skyrocket in price as influencers furiously accuse each other of recipe theft.. Yep, just another relaxing weekend on the internet.
But don't worry—I'll sort through all the crap and tell you the stories you actually want to hear (and maybe some you'll enjoy gossiping about.
Let's jump into this weekend's special edition of The Core.
— Fatih
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Economy
Check(out), Please!
Internet Culture
The Baklava Bandit
Weekend Leisure Core
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Beyond the Core
Europe’s Best Beaches
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ECONOMY
Check(out), Please!
Your late-night shopping habit just got more expensive. Last midnight, the U.S. officially closed the beloved "de minimis" loophole—the sweet exemption that lets us buy anything from China for under $800 without paying import tariffs.
 Thanks to President Trump's tariff shake-up, that $12 sweater from Shein? It's now facing tariffs as high as 145%. Temu and Shein already raised prices, some even doubled. Small e-commerce businesses are scrambling to survive, frantically reorganizing their supply chains to avoid this financial crisis. Let's say goodbye to cheap, guilt-free thrills from overseas.
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Internet Culture
Sticky Fingers
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Australia's baking influencers didn't get the memo. RecipeTin Eats mastermind Nagi Maehashi just got into a heated Instagram fight with TikTok-famous Brooke Bellamy (aka Brooki Bakehouse) over her bestselling cookbook.
 Maehashi says Bellamy took her caramel slice and baklava recipes to oddly specific details. Bellamy denies everything, saying it's just a natural overlap in baking—after all, flour, sugar, and butter can only combine so many ways. With Bellamy's book already selling millions, this could become more about profits. We've got the newest reality show in baking.
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CULTURE
🎪 Weekend Leisure Core
Fuel Your Curiosity
In middle school, my Walkman was a Led Zeppelin temple. That doesn't seem to be documented, so watching Becoming Led Zeppelin is the best we can do.
Fuel Your MIND
I'm still getting used to the writing style, but this is an imaginative reinvention of the love story. It's grand, sweeping, innovative, with finely drawn characters and a surprising and bizarre plot.
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When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to films.'
— Quentin Tarantino
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💬 Beyond the Core
Car-ried
Here's how Hollywood builds its movie cars.
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Poop-sicle
It seems, there are two types of poopers. Which one are you?
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📸 Lens to Life
Here are this years' GDT Nature Photographer of the Year winners.
🗓️ Flashback
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Fatih Taskiran
I'm glad we could get together here. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
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