âColorado students pay a mandatory âathletic feeââŚto help fund sports. They can pay $200 more if they want tickets to games. In 2023, Colorado had a $136 million athletic budget and lost nearly $10 million. Most major universities subsidize athletics, not the other way around.â [gift link]
The question isnât new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.
Itâs almost like corporate taxes can be useful. stocks.apple.com/AzevOPZrnRpW...
Ireland plans to invest the 14 billion euros ($15.5 billion) that Apple (AAPL.O) has been ordered to pay in back taxes into housing, energy, water and transport infrastructure, Finance Minister Jack C...
Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.
Your older Jewish relatives are still gonna try to tell you that Bibi is the sole problem and a wild historic aberration.
Since approving assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, premierâs Likud party has taken lead in national surveys
a Venn diagram of media people sticking their necks out to defend a young female magazine writer who got inappropriately involved in a story for 9 months and lied about it versus a young female magazine writer who signed a petition in her own name calling for a ceasefire in a war she didnât cover
Well shit, another reason to hate Musk. www.elonowesyou100dollars.com
Elon Musk stole your land, and now he owes you $100.
Periodic reminder: Our government is dependent on Musk and his companies in an extremely concerning way, and we need to continue demanding for electeds to cut the damn cord. It's not going to happen overnight, but it has to happen. Call your electeds. wapo.st/3B5Wf7u
School shootings are a "fact of life", get over it, says man with the power to change that, flanked by elite armed guards and hiding inside a bulletproof box.
Oprah is doing a broadcast special about AI. Through the awesome predictive power of knowing how stupid tech hype cycles work, I have identified the things that are wrong with it, even though I havenât seen it yet and it hasnât aired yet. Letâs see how we do. www.anildash.com/2024/08/31/o...
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This is why fines equal to a large portion of corporate income, and regularly jailing CEOs, for corporate crime is a necessity in a civilized society.
Eric Schmidt took a break from selling AI to the military to tell a bunch of Stanford students to become entrepreneurs and if that required stealing a ton of content, they shouldnât worry about it. When they succeed, their lawyers will clean up the mess.
Read to the end for a disastrous Peter Thiel interview