#AntiTrust

Paul Glastris

glastris

Big mainstream news outlets are thriving and doing the best job in a generation of defending democracy. Local news outlets, however, are in total economic collapse. And big media is

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about Trump's taxes, and what they show about how America allocates capital.We appear to have some big problems.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-07/trump-s-taxes-show-something-s-wrong-w

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥

Econ_Marshall

A thread about this fantastic @DeathPanel_ episode on the “Great Barrington Declaration,” because this stuff is really f___ing important. https://www.patreon.com/posts/42895151 cc @PhilipRocco @jfeldman_epi /1 They write about Jay

Jay Pinho

jaypinho

So I just hit 'Publish' on a newsletter I've been meaning to write, in one form or another, for a long time. http://tinyletter.com/networked/letters/video-was-never-the-answer It's narrowly about the infamous 'pivot to

Alec Stapp

AlecStapp

1/ @calebwatney and I wrote 4,000 words for @mercatus detailing how we can use government purchase guarantees and targeted deregulation to massively increase production of essential medical supplies.Short thread with

Steve Troughton-Smith

stroughtonsmith

The internals of App Review’s testing — quite fascinating! It seems like they create a trust score of your app based on a list of binary & metadata criteria, and

Geoffrey Manne

geoffmanne

I was asked to give comments to the House Judiciary Committee on its investigation into competition in digital markets. You can read them in full here: https://icle.xyz/3bzZ92L My comments focus

Navin Madhavan

madnavin

Can't believe I am doing a thread on Google and changes in the playstore "rules" almost a month after I did one on Apple! A lot has already been written

Jennifer Huddleston

jrhuddles

Tech Hearing (I've forgotten which number) on #Section230 live tweet threadhttps://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior .@SenatorWicker opens that the light touch regulatory a

Shem Horne

Shem_Infinite

Yeah sure thing The Atlantichttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46687909 Very believable story The Atlantichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWu92Yspe6E It's not like there aren't dozens of these stories or anything.https://www.t

Matt Clancy

mattsclancy

US GDP per capita growth averaged 2.25%/yr in the back half of the 20th century, but only 1% so far in the the 21st century. Is this evidence of recent

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Today in @WiredUK, my op-ed: "Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media" - an argument that the real power of social media comes from switching costs, not

White_Tiger_333

TheRealAlice333

Recently, @realDonaldTrump stated that he would help all Americans, even if their state governors fail them. Denying citizens basic rights would definitely fall under the definition of failing the very

Alexander Martin

AlexMartin

You might be prepared to ignore the majority of the Section 230 complaints simply as a matter of campaigning ahead of the US Election, but how social media platforms handle

Zack Cooper

zackcooperYale

Why is health spending in the US high?This terrific episode of Freakonomics is focused on End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The issue is a window into why we spend a

The Lupin of Us Part III

EpicFunnyName

gonna level with you guys i have no idea what half of these mean but fuck it 1. oh boy, of course they put the big one first my thoughts