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How factory farming built America
How factory farming built America
Factory farming’s political and cultural influence, and its impacts on American life, explained.
·vox.com·
How factory farming built America
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s well known that the voting methods we use are highly defective, as they fail to meet fundamental criteria like positive responsiveness, the Pareto principle, and stability. Positive responsiveness (monotonicity) means that if a candidate improves on some voters’ ballots, this should not reduce the candidate’s chances of winning. Yet, many voting methods, including runoffs […]
·marginalrevolution.com·
The Borda Count is the Best Method of Voting - Marginal REVOLUTION
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
As a new study suggests that a proportion of Generation Z would rather hire a professional to change a lightbulb or hang a picture frame, Ellie Muir looks into why – and explains how DIY has become a privilege in the current economic climate
·independent.co.uk·
There’s a simple reason Gen-Zers like me won’t change a lightbulb
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
In a 1958 essay, economist Leonard Read argued that no one knows how to make a pencil. In a complex economy, the components of this simple implement — cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, and glue — are contributed by a network of specialists who never meet. “There isn’t a single person … including the president of the pencil company, who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how.” As if to disprove this idea, student Thomas Thwaites set out in 2009 to build a toaster from scratch. He bought a £3.94 consumer unit and reverse-engineered it, hoping...
·futilitycloset.com·
The Toaster Project - Futility Closet
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallet...
·jpkoning.blogspot.com·
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
The Era of Human Opioid
The Era of Human Opioid
(originally published Summer 2017) Given the longevity of his parents, we can say President Trump is very likely to thrive until he is 90 years old. I posit that those years will be in office or in…
·inaniludibrio.com·
The Era of Human Opioid
What Are Stories?
What Are Stories?
Eighteenth in the New Commons series. Several generations ago, my pal Jerry and I were cutting a hole between the ceiling studs of a rented house in Durham, North Carolina. This was our first step …
·doc.searls.com·
What Are Stories?
What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really about
What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really about
Age verification laws designed to block children from online porn sites are sweeping the US, Io Dodds writes. But do they actually protect children, or is there another agenda at work?
·independent.co.uk·
What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really about
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same …
·acoup.blog·
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
We live in a kind of mass depression
We live in a kind of mass depression
The ongoing Israeli genocide compares to nothing in the history of Palestine.
·welcometohellworld.com·
We live in a kind of mass depression
Whatever safer targets are available
Whatever safer targets are available
Today Arvind Dilawar talks to someone in the West Bank about what life is like there now. “When you lay in your bed at night and you hear the planes and you know exactly a few minutes later someone will be killed…you don’t know what to do with
·welcometohellworld.com·
Whatever safer targets are available
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Apparently there’s been an "incident" at PowerSchool. An incident. A breach. A hack. NBD, just one of the largest ed-tech companies in the world, provider of a student information system for about 16,000 schools (75% of districts in the US), the central piece of digital infrastructure for K-12
·2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com·
Everything Everywhere All at Once