Who's going to stand up?
Who?
Cowards | Uncrunched: "
If just one of them stood up and told us what’s really going on, as the EFF has urged, we could start to have a real discussion in this country about freedom v. security. Stand up, I say, and tell us about these FISA orders. Publish them all. Tell us everything. Let us understand the true scope of the evil we are facing." (read more at link above)
My Reading List
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Stay Away From Wedding Loans
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How are the kids paying for weddings these days? With loans. For a party
that lasts a single day. The Washington Post examined the the practice of
taking...
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A Translation Change Can't Make That Evangelion Scene Less Gay
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Though anime fans are overjoyed that *Neon Genesis Evangelion* has hit
Netflix, making the series available to watch legally for the first time
since 201...
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Disney poaches Netflix film-making chief for streaming service: Deadline
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Walt Disney Co has hired the head of Netflix Inc's original film division,
Matt Brodlie, for its streaming service Disney+, according to a report by
Deadli...
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House Adds New Policy Restrictions Ahead of Border Funding Vote
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House Democrats pressed toward a vote on $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid
to address the plight of migrants at the southern border, as leaders moved
to que...
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UN Poverty Expert: 'Climate Apartheid' Threatens Human Rights And Lives
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An advance report to the United Nations warns that human rights — like some
of the planet's poorest residents — may not survive our climate crisis.
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With a portfolio including Acorns, Sweetgreen and Ro Health, Torch Capital raises $60M for its first fund
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Jonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, had already built a
portfolio that included Acorns, Compass, Digital Ocean and Sweetgreen,
before he raised ...
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Warren’s brilliant plan to neutralize Republican voter suppression
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Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a “plan
to strengthen our democracy” on Tuesday. Much of Warren’s plan tracks the
For t...
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Update: A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices
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CR Note: This is a repeat of earlier posts with updated graphs.
A few key points:
1) There is a clear seasonal pattern for house prices.
2) The surge in dis...
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Peter Thiel-backed auto commerce startup Drive Motors has a new name and $5M in capital
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Not that long ago, visiting the website of an auto dealership was a little
like going to a store without a cash register. The retailer’s website might
list...
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Deploys Dozens of Satellites to Orbit
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The powerful rocket is carrying an assortment of cargo, including a solar
sail, an atomic clock and the ashes of 152 people.
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Lateral thinking: How to workshop innovative ideas
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- As we get older, the work we consistently do builds "rivers of
thinking." These give us a rich knowledge of a certain kind of area.
- The pro...
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'Avengers: Endgame' Tops $2.75 Billion (And 'Avatar's Original Global Box Office)
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'Avengers: Endgame,' thanks to $614 million in China, has passed the $2.749
billion initial theatrical gross of James Cameron's 'Avatar.'
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Teach for America teachers raise achievement
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Charter schools are more likely to hire Teach for America teachers than
district-run public schools, reports Annie Waldman in a ProPublica story
that calls...
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Weekend Reading: John Maynard Keynes (1937): How to Avoid a Slump
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### I. The Problem of the Steady Level It is clear that by painful degrees
we have climbed out of the slump. It is also clear that we are well
advanced on ...
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House Oversight Committee to vote on whether to force Kellyanne Conway to testify over alleged Hatch Act violations
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[image: Kellyanne Conway]Jim Young/Reuters
- *White House counselor Kellyanne Conway may be forced to testify
before the House Oversight Committee...
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Links (6/23/19)
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Notes on Excessive Wealth Disorder - Paul Krugman In a couple of days I’m
going to be participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on
“excessiv...
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In Case You Missed It…
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This week at CBPP, we focused on poverty and inequality, housing, state
budgets and taxes, health, family income support, food assistance, federal
taxes...
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Breaking down barriers to VR
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YouTube is where people go to experience VR videos. With over one million
VR videos and experiences, YouTube VR offers a diverse library of immersive
conte...
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Bifurcar 'blockchain': universos paralelos de cadenas ingobernables
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Los usuarios de Nano han demandado a sus desarrolladores por una pérdida de
criptomonedas valorada en 150 millones de euros. Si prospera, estarían
obligado...
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The Blog Moves On
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But the show goes on.
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'
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In another strange sign of the mounting culture wars, Viola Davis’s
emotional Oscars tribute to artists has become political fodder.
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'Diamond' Joe Gutnick dealing until the end
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Joe Gutnick was still wheeling and dealing in the days leading up to his
bankruptcy.
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The search for the best middle-class tax cut
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Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their
taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and
not just ...
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Jilly Cooper hits out at 'fatal' impact of local government cuts to libraries
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Cooper, who has an OBE for services to literature, has attacked David
Cameron for allowing more than 350 libraries to close across Britain
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IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play?
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IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company
acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month --
buying the stream...
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Book Expo America, BookCon, Detroit Public TV Video
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Tweets about #BookCon2015 OR #BEA15
*Date: Fri May, 29 2015 11:00 AM CDT — Sun May, 31 2015 3:00 PM CDT*
*Detroit Public TV will bring live inside the boo...
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