- You Really Can Fight Poverty With One Weird Trick: Giving People Money (Jacobin) Of course, this means that an army of bureaucrats, charity workers, and academics would actually find productive work.
- UK woman installs locks on fridge and cupboards to prevent 10kg pet cat from stealing food (TODAY) 10 kilos? Just give the cat what he wants.
- Wake Up, Sailors, Scurvy Is a Hoax (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency) Savagly funny and historically accurate.
- Law
Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure,
Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts (naked
capitalism) Modern judicial philosophy has allowed for a multi-billion dollar con game.
- 7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail (IEEE Spectrum) AIs forget lessons learned and cannot do basic math reliably. This is kind of concerning .
- Who's paying for your Uber? (Phys.org) It turns out that the Gypsy cab companies make for more pollution, and congestion.
- Brussels wants Apple to change iPhone charging system by 2024 (POLITICO) I'm not sure how Apple managed to evade this the first time around, when the EU started requiring the micro-USB interface. Apple will have to stop extracting THAT particular rent.
- The Elizabeth Holmes Line (The Baffler) An interesting analysis of the aesthetics of Holmes scams, and how she continues to aggressively deceive.
When The Family Guy is more socially responsible than a major political party, we areofficially f%$#ed:
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