Marc Andreessen, a man worth nearly two billion dollars, a man who lives in a $177 million compound in Malibu, a man who has been on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard and who likely hasn’t experienced a struggle in decades, wants you to believe he’s a victim.
Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story? - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is common lore in YIMBY circles that Tokyo is such an inexpensive city because Tokyo/Japan has allowed so much freedom to build. Sometimes it is mentioned that Japanese building and regulatory decisions are made at higher levels than the strictly local, which lowers the power of the NIMBYs to restrict building. I don’t doubt […]
Pluralistic: Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it (19 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Global: ‘Predator Files’ investigation reveals catastrophic failure to regulate surveillance trade - Amnesty International Security Lab
A new investigation into the global surveillance crisis by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, today begins to reveal the shocking truth about how far the industry’s tentacles have spread and how ineffective EU regulation has been in controlling it. The ‘Predator Files’ focuses on the […]
This is the view of our home planet from Earth-Sun Lagrange point 1, about a million miles away, courtesy of the EPIC instrument https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on the DSCOVR spacecraft. From this di...
Pluralistic: One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself (16 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Why Bones Was Canceled And Why We Should Blame Fox - /Film
Before streaming took off, Fox was notorious for setting shows up to fail. Even the network's hit series Bones could only avoid being canceled for so long.
The Great Gatsby Curve Among America’s Über Rich – Economics from the Top Down
I continue my Forbes kick by looking at the Great Gatsby Curve among the richest Americans — the tendency for increasing inequality to come with decreasing social mobility.
Pluralistic: Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion; The Lost Cause prologue, part 6 (13 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow