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Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical—and Popular

A Q&A with Kohei Saito, the author who introduced ‘degrowth’ to a mass audience.

Earther Akielly Hu, Grist Feb 2

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

The billionaire says he wants to lead a "techno-optimist" revolution. But he's too rich to understand that his belief system is stupid.

Tech News Lucas Ropek Oct 19

KFC’s Latest Ploy to Make Colonel Sanders Sexy Is a Lifetime Movie Spoof

As the secrecy and mystery around KFC’s chicken recipe has waned in recent years, the fast food giant pivoted to creating edible monstrosities. It has also turned its founder-cum-mascot Colonel Harland Sanders into the centerpiece of an I’m Not There-style multimedia ad campaign, featuring a variety of actors portraying the white-haired chicken slinger in different scenarios. Sanders…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 7

NASA Is Soliciting Bids to Bring Capitalism to the Moon

Mankind’s quest to really fuck up the Moon is taking another step. NASA has filed a “request for quotations” for any company willing to scrape the lunar surface for the first off-world sale of space resources, in a sort of baby step towards Moon Capitalism. The project isn’t complicated: NASA is offering $15,000 to $25,000…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Sep 10

Exxon Is Showing Us Exactly Who It Cares About

Exxon is a known corporate miscreant, and nothing it does to preserve profits should come as a surprise anymore. And yet. In the face of a crippling pandemic and job crisis, the company has decided to do what it does best: maximize shareholder value. A Reuters exclusive report on Thursday said the company is hellbent…

Earther Brian Kahn Jul 30

Law Enforcement Is Buying Its Way Into Our Breaches

Right now, there’s a good chance your digital life is multitudes bigger than it was just a few months ago. Over time, the global coronavirus pandemic has turned a lot of us—or at least everyone I know—into the type of person who dates digitally, mourns digitally, and attends everything from church to support groups behind…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Jul 8

Tesla Claiming It’s Sustainable Is Bullshit

Tesla released its 2019 Impact Report touting its sustainability this week. In it, the electric car and renewable energy firm touted a bevy of accomplishments. They include claims that its car batteries degrade 15% less quickly than others, that it cut its water use in manufacturing by 45% from 2018 to 2019, that it makes…

Earther Dharna Noor Jun 12

A Fracking Bailout Is A Terrible Idea

The U.S. government definitely has its priorities in order. Apparently, it’s considering using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to pour money into fossil fuel companies. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration is considering kicking money to the beleaguered industry after Saudi Arabia kicked off an oil price war over the weekend, fueled…

Climate Change Dharna Noor Mar 10

Maybe These Davos Guys Have Some Good Ideas About Climate Change (They Do Not)

Davos season is a beautiful time of year when rich, powerful people gather in a Swiss mountain town to talk about Big Ideas. Ensconced in this familiar backslapping environment, they also occasionally tell us how they really feel about some of the most pressing issues facing humanity like rising inequality and the climate crisis.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jan 23

Image: Werther Dell’edera, Miquel Muerto

The Kids Are Far From All Right in This Week’s Best New Comics

Often times, when we’re talking about how “alright” the kids are, what we’re really talking about is how we, as a society, are doing—because the children are the future, and if they’re not doing well, we’re all probably screwed more than we know. For everyone living in this week’s best new comics, the kids are…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 6

The Boys‘ Critique of Megacorporations Sure Is Rich

Vought International, the American company that manages the entire country’s population of licensed superheroes in the world of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys, is a capitalistic leviathan with tentacles reaching into the worlds of law enforcement, the entertainment industry, the military, and a number of other major parts of general society. Sound familiar?…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 6

After Destroying Brick and Mortars, Amazon Reportedly Planning to Cut Ties With Thousands of Small Vendors

Amazon has long touted its relationships with the small businesses who sell on its platform as helping them “reach hundreds of millions of customers around the world.” But Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the e-commerce giant is about to cease bulk ordering for “thousands of mostly smaller suppliers,” which could have a devastating effect for…

Commerce Catie Keck May 28

Amazon’s Fight With South American Countries Over Control of ‘.amazon’ Domain Name Comes to a Head

Back in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it would vastly expand the number of top-level domains, allowing hundreds of new ones to flourish. You can now buy domains for .mango, .luxury, and .republican if you’re so inclined. But there’s one top-level domain that’s still engaged in a bitter…

Commerce Matt Novak Apr 5

Amazon Killing Ads for Unprofitable Items Is Yet Another Example of Its Ruthless Money-Grabs

Looking to boost its already massive profits, Amazon is reportedly hitting vendors of unprofitable items where it hurts: their ads. Citing emails sent to Amazon vendors in addition to conversations with individuals familiar with the matter, CNBC reported Wednesday that Amazon recently began informing some of its brands that it will no longer allow them…

Commerce Catie Keck Mar 20

Kevin Hart in Talks to Star in the Monopoly Movie Nobody Asked For

For reasons that can only be explained by Milburn Pennybags, Hasbro is reportedly moving forward with its plans for a Monopoly feature film directed by Tim Story, and the project’s found its first lead actor. Deadline reports that, despite the recent wave of backlash he’s received for making homophobic comments in the past, Kevin Hart…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Jan 17

Amazon Is Reportedly Sick of Hawking You Cheap ‘Crap’ That Doesn’t Make It Any Money

Amazon, a company valued at $1 trillion earlier this year, is reportedly sick of selling you cheap shit that isn’t making it more money. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce behemoth is moving away from selling products apparently known internally as known as “CRaP,” or Amazon-speak for “Can’t Realize a Profit.”…

Commerce Catie Keck Dec 16

Ralph Breaks the Internet Is an Adorable, Capitalist Fever Dream

Ralph Breaks the Internet is one of Disney’s first films to take a serious look at how digital culture has come to be shaped by our relationships to things as well as people. For the heroes of the movie, that presents a number of interesting challenges as they navigate the world wide web. and for…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Nov 27

MoviePass is Selling Merch Now, Which Will Definitely Turn Things Around for It

MoviePass, a company that exists solely to piss off its customers despite offering a service so generously price that it will inevitably lead to its own downfall, entered the “we’re selling flamethrowers” phase of its existence Thursday with the official launch of its merch store. The collapse of the company is sure to follow. At…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jun 28

I’m Going to Buy the iPhone X, and I Hate Myself for It

I already knew what was going to happen before the iPhone event started. Apple was going announce this new phone I’d reported on for months, and it was going to feature all the cool new stuff I’d read about for months. And for every time I said “Oh wow that’s cool” during the big reveal,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 13

Women Open Up To The New York Times About Silicon Valley’s Sexual Harassment Problem

The New York Times just dropped a lengthy and detailed report on Silicon Valley’s oft-rumored, rarely spoken about sexual harassment problem. More than two dozen women working in the technology industry spoke to the Times, following a report about a week ago in The Information about how venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck routinely preyed upon female…

Tech News Patrick Redford Jun 30

capitalism

Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical—and Popular

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

KFC’s Latest Ploy to Make Colonel Sanders Sexy Is a Lifetime Movie Spoof

NASA Is Soliciting Bids to Bring Capitalism to the Moon

Exxon Is Showing Us Exactly Who It Cares About

Law Enforcement Is Buying Its Way Into Our Breaches

Tesla Claiming It’s Sustainable Is Bullshit

A Fracking Bailout Is A Terrible Idea

Maybe These Davos Guys Have Some Good Ideas About Climate Change (They Do Not)

The Kids Are Far From All Right in This Week’s Best New Comics

The Boys‘ Critique of Megacorporations Sure Is Rich

After Destroying Brick and Mortars, Amazon Reportedly Planning to Cut Ties With Thousands of Small Vendors

Amazon’s Fight With South American Countries Over Control of ‘.amazon’ Domain Name Comes to a Head

Amazon Killing Ads for Unprofitable Items Is Yet Another Example of Its Ruthless Money-Grabs

Kevin Hart in Talks to Star in the Monopoly Movie Nobody Asked For

Amazon Is Reportedly Sick of Hawking You Cheap ‘Crap’ That Doesn’t Make It Any Money

Ralph Breaks the Internet Is an Adorable, Capitalist Fever Dream

MoviePass is Selling Merch Now, Which Will Definitely Turn Things Around for It

I’m Going to Buy the iPhone X, and I Hate Myself for It

Women Open Up To The New York Times About Silicon Valley’s Sexual Harassment Problem

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

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