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Monday, 21 September 2020
quote [ Thousands of secret ?suspicious activity reports? offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity ? and how the government lets it flourish. ]
Dirty the money, laundry, had to wash it (yeah)
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Saturday, 19 September 2020
quote [ Chuck Feeney has achieved his lifetime ambition: giving away his $8bn fortune while he is still around to see the impact it has made. ]
A remarkably mature attitude - and more fun than spending it all on lobbyists and prostitutes. And prostitutes for the lobbyists. And lobbyists for the prostitutes. It's prostitutes and lobbyists all the way down.
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Sunday, 6 September 2020
quote [ "Just put the knife down. We'll go outside and figure this out." ]
Messy insights in the video game business. Nothing too extreme, but highlighting the unstable nature of the studios. Via today's RPS' Sunday Papers.
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Friday, 21 August 2020
quote [ overoptimizing efficiency doesn?t just burn people out, it also too often requires cutting into what you later realize were prudent safety margins. ]
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Thursday, 23 July 2020
quote [ The Segway brand will no longer make its two-wheeled, self-balancing namesake. ]
It's over! Keep your balance. Also, sorry for delaying this message for a full month.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2020
quote [ Of the many things that social platforms have taken away from us, perhaps the most disappointing is the freedom to customize our spaces. We need it back. ]
I remember you way back, back from MySpace
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020
quote [ ?The affordability crisis within major urban areas is real,? they write, ?but it is due less to over-regulation of housing markets than to the underlying wage and income inequalities, and a sharp increase in the value of central locations within metro areas, as employment and amenities concentrate in these places.? ]
Somehow missed this in posting the urbanism articles. The author notes how reporting on this triggered quite a backlash.
See also an old knumbknutz post and the game system one.
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quote [ From knockoff Bart Simpsons to CafePress ripoffs, what the long association between T-shirts and bootlegging tells us about copyright. ]
And I might start slangin' bean pies
Or the bootleg t-shirt of the month
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Monday, 13 July 2020
quote [ Astrology, private equity, a $1.1 billion gender discrimination lawsuit, and a precariously built bangle behemoth ]
For diamonds and gold
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