novembro 2024

Organizing for Digital Rights in the Pacific Northwest

Organizing for Digital Rights in the Pacific Northwest

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Recently I traveled to Portland, Oregon to speak at the PDX People’s Digital Safety Fair, meet up with five groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance, and attend BSides PDX 2024. Portland’s first ever Digital Safety Fair was a success and five of our six EFA organizations in the area participated: Personal Telco Project, Encode Justice Oregon, PDX Privacy, TA3M Portland, and Community Broadband PDX. I was able to reaffirm our support with these organizations, and table with most […]

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The US Apartment Shortage is Zoning Working as Intended

The US Apartment Shortage is Zoning Working as Intended

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The United States faces a growing housing shortage, which is driven heavily by the scarcity of available apartments. According to a joint study from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), the US needs to add 4.3 million apartment units to the housing supply by 2035 to catch up to demand. November 22 marks the 98th anniversary of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company, the US Supreme Court decision that […]

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Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's Beef With NewsGuard Is Legally Dubious and Empirically Shaky

Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s Beef With NewsGuard Is Legally Dubious and Empirically Shaky

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Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wants to “dismantle” what he calls “the censorship cartel.” As Carr defines it, that cartel includes not just Big Tech companies such as Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet (which owns Google) but also NewsGuard, a company that rates the credibility and transparency of news and information sources. Carr says NewsGuard has conspired with other businesses to “violate Americans’ constitutional freedoms” by silencing “news outlets and […]

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Biden Has a Small Window to Make Big Fixes to U.S. Trade Policy: Op-Ed by Scott Lincicome

Biden Has a Small Window to Make Big Fixes to U.S. Trade Policy: Op-Ed by Scott Lincicome

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Scott Lincicome In a new op-ed for The Los Angeles Times, Scott Lincicome, Vice President of General Economics for the Cato Institute, suggests that Biden has a short time to remedy past policy errors and improve the United States’ economic and geopolitical prospects before Trump takes office, particularly in the area of trade. He recommends terminating ineffective tariffs, particularly on steel, aluminum, and Chinese goods, which have caused more harm than benefit. Lincicome also advises eliminating tariffs on […]

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⁠Eu sinceramente, não quero perder isso, novamente... Vinagreete

⁠Eu sinceramente, não quero perder isso, novamente… Vinagreete

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⁠Eu sinceramente, não quero perder isso, novamente volto a torturar meu psicológico, com as lembranças, se eu for sincero, tornou-se inconstante, os dolorosos momentos, em que eu lhe procuro, afundando-me em meus sonhos, queimando meu consciente, visitando as memórias, em que o mínimo resquício, de sua existência, se faça presente. Meu coração, parece não ser tão vital, como costumava aparentar, nas fortes batidas, dedicadas a você, cada pesadelo com você, eu não consigo evitá-los, só pelo fato, de […]

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The Free Market?

The Free Market?

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When it comes to inflation, the newest culprit is price fixing by the potato cartel, is this something the AE community considers the free market? To me and other stalwarts of good policy like Teddy Roosevelt we see monopolies as being anti-free market and the government coming into fix the problem as protecting the free market from bad actors (in this case the potato cartel). So… is this a good use of government intervention to protect the market […]

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