Today's links
- Bloomberg's campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes: Bloomberg's lowest moment at the debate came when he fumfuhed over whether he'd release women from his corporate NDAs.
- Private Equity has sabotaged every attempt to end emergency room "surprise billing": AKA, "Why didn't you ask your ambulance driver to shop around?"
- The Parkland kids have launched a zine: "Unquiet" is a gorgeous, haunting zine from the March For Our Lives, debuted on Teen Vogue.
- Tumblr's ad policy: you can't block ads because we don't live in a post-scarcity society.
- Gopher shows us how adversarial interoperability was there from the start: the web's precursor depended on adversarial interop to win its place in history, and the web vanquished gopher with yet more adversarial interop
- A line of hardcovers designed to double as decor accents: I want to hate this, but they're so pretty!
- $2b later, Blue Apron is broke: incoming podcast apocalypse in 3, 2, 1….
- Tour Cards Against Humanity's incredible board-game cafe: when amazing people spend amazing sums.
- The team behind Frozen are making a musical out of Jen Wang's Prince and the Dressmaker: holy smokes, is this ever great news!
- This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2010
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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