- Louisiana's Corporate Subsidy Reforms Worked, Pass It On (Boondoggle) The state is no longer able to sign away city and county (Parish) taxes in corporate incentives.
- America’s Lost Crops Rewrite the History of Farming (The Atlantic) Paleobotany at its finest
- June Homes 'Reinvents' Having a Roommate and It Sounds Less Than Ideal (Hell Gate) Yet another case where the app based economy is more about abusing would be customers.
- Softest Toilet Paper Will Be More Expensive With Ban on Russian Wood (Bloomberg) The cutoff of the Russian Birch supply gets us where we sit.
- How lawyers became sadists (Pluralistic) How our current system incentivizes psychopathic behavior.
- S. Korea “Sender Pays” Is a Warning, Not a Model, or Why (Almost) Everyone Keeps Telling the EU This Is a VERY Bad Idea. (Wetmachine) The constant lobbying of list mile servers to let them charge Netflix, etc. Money quote, "S. Korea is not a model — either for the EU or the US or anywhere else. It is a warning. The fact that this powerful, real world example cannot kill the “sending party network pays/content provider pays/bandwidth hog/whatever you call it just give me the other guy’s money on top of my subscription fees” zombie is a true tribute to the power of carrier lobbyists and the magical thinking of certain policymakers."
- Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. (Endgadget) Cruelty is not driven by profits, but by a philosophy that prizes cruelty over profit.
- Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows (The Guardian) Anthropogenic climate change or another pandemic? Why not both?
26 October 2022
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