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The End of News — The Atlantic
... See moreSince then [2017], the federal regulatory army has continued to expand, with an annual budget now exceeding $80 billion. Over the past eight years, federal agencies have imposed some 550 major new rules—each carrying an estimated economic cost of more than $100 million per year.
Moreover, without the crush of new federal regulations, businesses cou
State of the World
David Hood • 6 cards
According to Peter Swire, chief counselor for Privacy in the Clinton Administration and later a member of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologies, “With the attacks of September 11, 2001, everything changed. The new focus was overwhelmingly on security rather than privacy.”
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,
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The Pomp Podcast: #510: Jesse Walden on the Ownership Economy
podcasts.apple.comWashington Post, considered one of the Times’s main competitors, ran an editorial on the day of the opening ceremonies of the Berlin Olympics. Like William Shirer, the Post took a drastically different stance to the New York Times’s breathless praise of the Games, noting the violence in Germany instead of forgetting it and asking serious questions
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