In the most explosive Twitter Files yet, Matt Taibbi uncovers the agitprop-laundering fraud engineered by a neoliberal think-tank.
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Politics and News
Sifting Through the FTX Rubble
The sudden collapse of the world’s second biggest cryptocurrency exchange in November 2022 shocked the crypto world and left more than a million creditors hanging, with the 50 biggest being owed a staggering $3.1 billion.
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Financial Systems Come for Your Free Expression: Don’t let them.
I’ve been a PayPal customer for more than a decade, but closed my account last week. 2022 has shown glimpses of what a social credit system might look like in America. Decentralized, yet singular in ideology.
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Medicine Should Be About Care, Not Self-Righteousness
On the unwillingness of University of Michigan medical school students to hear views that might conflict with their own.
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Recession: What’s in a Name?
The White House kicks off its effort to change the most commonly accepted criterion of recession: two or more successive quarters of negative GDP growth.
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Washingtonians, How’s your State of Emergency Going?
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington was the first to declare a State of Emergency, and he may be the last one to rescind it. “Never let a crisis go to waste” has a corollary, and that is: “Preserve the crisis.”
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We Need to Talk About The Crisis in Young American Men
There’s a conversation we’re not having. How are the young men doing in your life?
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Seattle’s 50,000 School Kids Are Odds-On Favorite to be Last on the Planet to Unmask
When A demands something of B and withholds the freedoms of C to get it, don’t we call that a hostage situation?
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Growing Number of Firms Take Action on Russia-Ukraine
Here’s a current list of what some major corporations are (and are not) doing vis-a-vis Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as of Friday, March 4th 2022. This is rapidly changing, of course, and I cannot guarantee I’ll be keeping it up-to-date. Be sure to double-check their latest policies.
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It’s Not All Bad News: Four Monumental Advancements in Tech in 2021
Have the past few years of tech news gotten you down? Here are four recent advancements in tech you may have missed.
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