quote [ At first, Lilley and Greenfield just wanted to make enough money to pay their way to the annual YouTube-sponsored conference, VidCon, in Los Angeles, but their vision expanded as So Relatable Inc. took off. In January 2013, they quit college. ]

quote [ One of my sources told me that the attitude was ?if the metrics went up, then let?s just keep replacing more and more, because if the user doesn?t notice, then it?s fine.? ]

quote [ A year after its debut, the Cybertruck has come to embody Tesla?s infamous CEO, with critics suggesting it?s as defective and unreliable as Elon Musk himself. ]

quote [ Spotify also stopped paying for songs that do not reach 1,000 streams within 12 months earlier this year. The company has positioned this as a measure to streamline royalty distribution, but this policy impacts approximately over 150 million songs on the platform. ]

quote [ What Reisner called a ?discrete alliance? of environmentalists and fiscal hawks backed the 1986 Water Resources Development Act, which forced local governments to fund a chunk of future dam projects themselves. Beard said that bill never would have become law without support from Republicans like Tom Petri, a Wisconsin representative at the time. ?He was this sort of noble warrior about dams, saying, ?This is wrong! This is wrong!? ? Beard said, chuckling. ?We were like, ?Yeah, well, we all know it?s wrong.? ? ]

quote [ Thoughts on the sudden surge of success Bluesky has seen this week?without a network-dampening algorithm in sight. ]

quote [ "Dead workers aren't fashionable," said Sam Maher, co-author of Labour Behind the Label's Killer Jeans report ]

quote [ Scientists have criticised ?perverse incentives? in the Cap that push farmers to destroy nature. They estimate that 50%-80% of EU farming subsidies go toward animal agriculture rather than foods that would be better for the health of people and the planet.
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?The inequality in the Cap is extreme and this work highlights again just how much the richest land-owners continue to get richer from subsidies. Although transparency in the Cap has improved over time, the amount of detective work needed to uncover how the public?s tax money is spent is astonishing.?

Most of the 17 billionaires did not respond to requests for comment. A handful declined to comment. ]

quote [ ?They informed me that I have five stars on WikiFeet, which is quite rare.? ]

quote [ The tale of the founder of GoDaddy, a Vietnam vet who figured out the formula for getting regular people to buy domain names. ]