- Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out (NYT) "I understand why many Trump supporters have lost faith in Washington and want to just “shake things up.” When you shake things up with a studied plan and a clear idea of where you want to get to, you can open new futures. But when you shake things up, guided by one-liners and no moral compass, you can cause enormous instability and systemic vertigo. Trump wants to make America great in ways that are just not available anymore. 'What do we have to lose' by trying his way? Trump asks. The answer is: everything that actually makes us great. When the world gets this fast, small errors in navigation have huge consequences."
BUSINESS:
- How Waning Competition Deepens Labor’s Plight (NYT) "The latest deal (AT&T and Time Warner) may pass muster when viewed in isolation. But collectively, mergers at this scale are reconfiguring the American economy in ways that seem to be tilting the scales toward the interests of ever-larger corporations, to the broad detriment of labor."
- Forget Copyright — Think Copyleft (Ozy) "Copyleft is a label that gives anyone else the right to use, modify and build upon an artist’s work, making the original belong to no one and to everyone. Sharing, collaborating and remixing becomes as easy as a retweet — unencumbered by the letter of the law and free of copyright-infringement issues that would otherwise strangle the widespread distribution of the work."
NEWS:
- Kansas is still bleeding, thanks to tea party economics (LA Times) "The Kansas experience is important because the notion that dramatic tax cuts pay for themselves by spurring economic growth still unaccountably has an allure for conservative policymakers, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Brownback, who took office in 2010, promised that “our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.” He was seconded by his tax advisor, the notorious Arthur Laffer, who forecast “enormous prosperity” for the state."
- Philippines’ Deal With China Pokes a Hole in U.S. Strategy (NYT) and Philippines’ Duterte discovered this week that his actions have consequences (WaPo)
SPORT:
- ‘How Much Suffering Can You Take?’ (NYT)
TECHNOLOGY:
- Tesla Is Betting On Scarcity, Not Luxury (FastCompany) "The benefit of batteries only grows when you consider the implications of solar. In California, panels provide almost 10,000 megawatts of power, or the equivalent of a few nuclear reactors—much of it from private homes. Not only does solar energy itself peak at midday, during a time when the grid can’t very well utilize it, but all this energy has to go somewhere—again, lest reactors start blowing up. As a result, gigantic lithium ion battery facilities, capable of offloading excess grid power in mere milliseconds, start to make a lot of sense."
- Hulu Adds ESPN, ABC and Fox News to Streaming Service (NYT) "The live service is expected to make its debut in early 2017, and though Hulu has not said exactly how much it would cost, media executives have said that it may be around $40 a month."
- New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (NYT)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- Would You Swallow a Pill Full of Poop? (Wired) "OpenBiome believes in the power of pure, barely processed poop. Every month, a hundred or so donors drop off anonymized bags of their stool at the bank, where a lab tech in a poop-emoji-emblazoned hair net weighs and scores every sample (on the Bristol stool scale: Google it). Another tech adds a simple saline solution, shakes it up in a Whirl-Pak bag, and freezes the liquid—ready to send to doctors and researchers across the country."
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BUSINESS:
- How Waning Competition Deepens Labor’s Plight (NYT) "The latest deal (AT&T and Time Warner) may pass muster when viewed in isolation. But collectively, mergers at this scale are reconfiguring the American economy in ways that seem to be tilting the scales toward the interests of ever-larger corporations, to the broad detriment of labor."
- Forget Copyright — Think Copyleft (Ozy) "Copyleft is a label that gives anyone else the right to use, modify and build upon an artist’s work, making the original belong to no one and to everyone. Sharing, collaborating and remixing becomes as easy as a retweet — unencumbered by the letter of the law and free of copyright-infringement issues that would otherwise strangle the widespread distribution of the work."
NEWS:
- Kansas is still bleeding, thanks to tea party economics (LA Times) "The Kansas experience is important because the notion that dramatic tax cuts pay for themselves by spurring economic growth still unaccountably has an allure for conservative policymakers, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Brownback, who took office in 2010, promised that “our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.” He was seconded by his tax advisor, the notorious Arthur Laffer, who forecast “enormous prosperity” for the state."
- Philippines’ Deal With China Pokes a Hole in U.S. Strategy (NYT) and Philippines’ Duterte discovered this week that his actions have consequences (WaPo)
SPORT:
- ‘How Much Suffering Can You Take?’ (NYT)
TECHNOLOGY:
- Tesla Is Betting On Scarcity, Not Luxury (FastCompany) "The benefit of batteries only grows when you consider the implications of solar. In California, panels provide almost 10,000 megawatts of power, or the equivalent of a few nuclear reactors—much of it from private homes. Not only does solar energy itself peak at midday, during a time when the grid can’t very well utilize it, but all this energy has to go somewhere—again, lest reactors start blowing up. As a result, gigantic lithium ion battery facilities, capable of offloading excess grid power in mere milliseconds, start to make a lot of sense."
- Hulu Adds ESPN, ABC and Fox News to Streaming Service (NYT) "The live service is expected to make its debut in early 2017, and though Hulu has not said exactly how much it would cost, media executives have said that it may be around $40 a month."
- New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (NYT)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- Would You Swallow a Pill Full of Poop? (Wired) "OpenBiome believes in the power of pure, barely processed poop. Every month, a hundred or so donors drop off anonymized bags of their stool at the bank, where a lab tech in a poop-emoji-emblazoned hair net weighs and scores every sample (on the Bristol stool scale: Google it). Another tech adds a simple saline solution, shakes it up in a Whirl-Pak bag, and freezes the liquid—ready to send to doctors and researchers across the country."
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