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Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy
A series of incremental changes over the years has transformed the tool from an explorative search function to one that is ripe for deception.
‘Let’s Go Hit This Kid’: Tesla Stans Find Actual Child to Try to Prove Teslas Don’t Run Over Kids
The Importance of Fare Enforcement | Newgeography.com
Substack fires editor in "retaliation" for working with high-profile writer who switched to rival Ghost | Boing Boing
Substack recently fired one of their freelance editors, Sam Thielman, in an explicit retaliation for the fact that one of the writers with whom Thielman had been working had chosen not to renew his…
Uber Has Shown Us the Future It Wants for Employment
With a new bill, gig-economy companies aren’t just targeting their own workers. They’re coming for everyone.
The Conservative Plan to Subvert Antitrust Enforcement
Corporate lawyers have laid out the blueprint to neuter the Federal Trade Commission.
Takes One To Know One
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense
This Show Can Make You Believe in the Power of the Future. Why Aren’t More People Talking About It?
Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense.
Opinion | The U.S. is grossly underprepared for big tech's privacy invasion
It is always a mistake to give up our privacy in exchange for convenience.
Eric Adams Should Definitely Bus New Yorkers to Texas
The NYC Mayor is tired of the Texas governor's foolywang. We're here for it.
Why Is "Quiet Quitting," A Thing for White People but Not For Their Black Co-workers
Everybody's is talking about saying "no" to doing more at work, except people of color
Pluralistic: 11 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: 12 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
OnlyFans bribed Meta to put thousands of porn stars on terror watchlist, suits claim
OnlyFans squashed online porn competitors with a bizarre scheme that bribed Meta employees to throw thousands of porn stars onto a terrorist watchlist, according to a group of explosive lawsuits.
Nearest US Abortion Clinics: How Far Americans Have to Travel for Legal Abortions
Millions of Americans will soon find themselves in abortion deserts, meaning they will have to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to access the medical procedure
DOJ's June Mar-a-Lago Trip Helps Prove 18 USC 793e - emptywheel
DOJ's trip to Mar-a-Lago in June would make it far easier to prove the elements of 18 USC 793e.
Why Millennials Crave Experiences - Pulse Marketing Agency
Millennials crave experiences, not things. To better sell your brand’s experience, call Pulse Marketing Agency for a free 30-minute consultation today.
Millennials – craving for Total Experience
Pluralistic: 10 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Story of Aluminum: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs
Your job as an entrepreneur is to use technology to turn scarcity into abundance.
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure
The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.
The End of Manual Transmission
Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost.
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion
When brands like Uber get a bad rep, what makes customers forgive?
As Uber’s performance shows, the road to brand redemption can be relatively short.
Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society
Are you a 'subject', a 'consumer'… or a 'citizen'? Authors Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad argue we need a new narrative for citzenship.
Our Bewildering Economy
What are the contradictory trends and policy choices? And does the Inflation Reduction Act live up to its name?
So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me
We’re good, seriously.
Quote of the day: John Kenneth Galbraith – The Bezzle
This comes from Chapter VIII of Galbraith’s classic volume, “The Great Crash 1929.” Given the recent announcement of fraud at Satyam in India and the monstrous Madoff scandal, it …