Modern Monetary Theory (previously) is an economic philosophy based on the idea that all state spending is "deficit" spending, since money comes into existence when the government spends it, and… Read the rest of the article: Washington establishment freaks out as Modern Monetary Theory gains currency
Hunter Biden was getting $50,000/month to sit on the board of Burisma, an oligarch-controlled Ukrainian energy company, a job for which he had no qualifications, apart from his surname, which… Read the rest of the article: Hunter Biden's Ukraine gig was corrupt, just not in the way Republican conspiracists claim it was
Efteling is an amazing Dutch theme park about an hour outside of Amsterdam; while it deploys many of the same technologies as Disney-style parks, it has a completely different affect,… Read the rest of the article: Elisa and the Six Swans: A perfect jewel-box of a ride at the Netherlands' Efteling park
Elly Blue has kickstarted a series of successful feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies; her latest is Dragon Bike: Fantastical feminist bicycle stories, for which she is seeking $6,000 ($10 gets… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a new feminist bicycle science fiction: this one's about dragons!
Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "More than 30 civil rights organizations, including Fight for the Future, Color of Change, National Immigration Law Center, and CAIR, have signed an… Read the rest of the article: Civil rights groups call for a stop to Amazon's doorbell surveillance partnerships with cops
Being a global multinational sure is hard! Yesterday, World of Warcraft maker Blizzard faced global criticism after it disqualified a high-stakes tournament winner over his statement of solidarity with the… Read the rest of the article: Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests
Raph Koster (previously) is a games design legend, the designer behind such classics as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, a consistently thoughtful and smart theorist of games, and the… Read the rest of the article: Raph Koster's next game: the evolution of sandbox play
Back in 2015, the Marvin Gaye estate secured a bizarre copyright judgment against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke over their hit song "Blurred Lines," in which the Gaye estate argued… Read the rest of the article: The terrible "Blurred Lines" copyright decision is now threatening Lil Nas X and Cardi B
Todd Alcott — purveyor of "Cultural Mashups" and "Ephemera Set to Music" — created this incredible set of six posters that mash up vintage ads, pulp covers, and posters with… Read the rest of the article: Posters that mash up Talking Heads songs with pulp covers and vintage ads
The job listing for a vacancy in Burning Man's HR department is pretty anodyne, until you get to this: "Some of the work will be in outside weather conditions and… Read the rest of the article: Burning Man is hiring an HR coordinator
For many years, we've brought you the delightful arts and crafts of Anthony "Tonky" Clune: beautiful felt housewares, giant wall-stickers, a short film about thrifting, cool reflective cycling safety badges… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a two-book collection of Anthony "Tonky" Clune's street photos
Sara from MIT Sloan Management Review writes, "The entire site is free today through Thursday. To help you make progress on the problems you're facing right now, they've unlocked their… Read the rest of the article: MIT Sloan Management Review drops its paywall for 72 hours
Last year, I posted about the spooky painted lightbulb Halloween ornaments of David "gnarledbranch" Irvine; since then, Irvine has created a new, more ambitious batch. He writes: "Some bulbs I… Read the rest of the article: Spooky Halloween ornaments painted on outsized lightbulbs
In 2018, for the first time in recorded US history, the 400 richest American households paid a lower rate of tax than any other group of American taxpayers: 23%, down… Read the rest of the article: For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else
Amazon and its contractors are notorious for their wage-theft from warehouse workers, who are required to endure lengthy, unpaid delays while they wait to have their bags and bodies searched… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court greenlights lawsuit over Amazon's wage-theft from warehouse workers
Bernie Sanders remains one of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential elections, but you'd hardly know it from the media narrative, which consistently downplays, ignores… Read the rest of the article: Bernie Blindness: a subreddit for noting the way press narratives ignore or smear Bernie Sanders
Last month, a developer called Axi0mx released an Iphone crack called Checkm8, which attacks a defect in the Ios bootrom, a low-level piece of code that has not been successfully… Read the rest of the article: Checkm8: an "unstoppable" Iphone jailbreaking crack
Yesterday, volunteers and staff at New York's beloved Pacifica Radio affiliate, WBAI, got an abrupt notice informing them that Pacifica had shut down the station, in order to prevent its… Read the rest of the article: After an injunction against Pacifica radio, New York's WBAI is back on the air
Propublica's latest longread is ostensibly a profile of two kids who attended Orange County's Sage Hill School, where tuition runs $40,000/year and where an estimated 25% of students get into… Read the rest of the article: How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper
As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, "Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc 'The online public square'? They're ad companies. It is like calling a billboard ad… Read the rest of the article: Facebook's 2016 election billboards: Buy all your elections with us!
