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Americans are self-organizing into mutual-aid societies to overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic. This is an encouraging development: Civil society organizations have unique local knowledge that enables them to help those in need far better than top-down approaches.

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Jonah Goldberg:

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The culture war has become more important than the issues the culture is supposed to be about.

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Ward Carroll:

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Not since 2008 have we seen as sharp a contrast in the digital media presence between presumptive nominees. But this time the difference is almost entirely about tone.

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This is a neat subscription page. The “pay less” rate seems like a steal given the perceived value.

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Customer-facing payment gizmos often prompt for gratuities–even in places where tips weren’t common before. What’s the etiquette in these cases? The NYT has some ideas, and the WSJ ran a similar piece last year.

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The current moment requires more events like Apple’s, not fewer. They’re celebrations of free enterprise and what it can achieve when unleashed.

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Good news for hockey fans.

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‘Put those guardrails back up’: micro.nathanielward.net

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It’s one thing to point out that gig economy triumphalism was overblown, that gig work isn’t for everyone. It’s another to compel workers who do prefer the flexibility of part-time gig work into an outdated employment model.

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Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan deconstruct Google’s disingenuous arguments on tracking protection. Fortunately, there are excellent alternatives to Chrome.

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Brian Krebs tells an astonishing story about a payroll firm that “abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies.” Trust matters.

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The premise behind this article—that with just a bit more central planning we can have our cake and eat it too—is far too common among urbanists. The hubris is extraordinary.

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“The world’s richest regions, such as North America and Europe, are not only increasing their forest area,” Alexander Hammond writes. “They have more forests than they did prior to industrialization.”

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The best security posture is to assume you’ve been compromised. Because you probably have.

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The most hostile words in email marketing:

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Please do not reply to this email. The sending email account is not monitored and nobody will see your reply.

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Treat your customers like human beings and let them reply to the messages you send them.

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“A politician … is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. The politician thinks of the success of his party, the statesman of the good of his country.”

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—James Freeman Clarke

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Online tracking technologies continue to evolve. Anti-tracking technologies will need to evolve to keep up.

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