Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations
#DmtDaily Writing in The Journal of Health Economics , three economists claim ( Sci Hub mirror ) that "a one standard deviation reduct...Read More
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Andrew Cuomo's naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the "Train Daddy" who has transformed the world's rail systems
#DmtDaily Andy Byford comes from generations of public transportation workers and worked his way from a London Underground platform supervi...Read More
Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people
#DmtDaily "Proactive credit line increases" (PCLIs) are when your credit card company increases your credit limit without your ask...Read More
Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them
#DmtDaily Warner subsidiary Otter Media has a division called Fullscreen ("a social content company for talent and brands") that h...Read More
Arizona HOA threatens residents with fines for posting critical comments about its board
#DmtDaily The Homeowners' Association in Val Vista Lakes -- a private community in Gilbert, Arizona -- has threatened at least 11 reside...Read More
US insurers, sick of being gouged by Big Pharma, will develop cheap generics
#DmtDaily The US health insurance industry resents being on the receiving end of surprise bills and price-gouging, so Blue Cross/Blue Shield...Read More
Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots
#DmtDaily The " Barnacle " is a networked car-immobilizer that parking guards stick over the windshield of your illegally parked ...Read More
Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids
#DmtDaily South Dakota's HB 1057 ("The Vulnerable Child Protection Act") was introduced by Rep Fred Deutsch [R-04/605-882-332...Read More
1975 Disneyland Haunted Mansion Standard Operating Procedures manual
#DmtDaily If you ever find yourself time-traveling to 1975 and need to impersonate a Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride-operator, we've got...Read More
Anne Dagg, pioneering giraffe biologist and feminist critic of "evolutionary psychology" receives the Order of Canada
#DmtDaily Anne Innis Dagg was the first female biologist to study giraffes; while all the men who preceded her had observed firsthand that ...Read More
VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica)
#DmtDaily Six months ago, Propublica began beating the drum about "Free File," a bizarre, corrupt arrangement between the IRS and...Read More
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore is saved!
#DmtDaily With just days to go before it would have to close its doors forever , San Diego's beloved science fiction bookstore Mysteriou...Read More
One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op
#DmtDaily Kentucky's Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative came out of a local electrification co-op set up during the New Deal, and in 19...Read More
Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that's how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ
#DmtDaily Jesus and his fam were refugees , so it's only fitting that the folks at Claremont United Methodist Church decided to put its...Read More
As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed
#DmtDaily On November 27, just as the courthouses were closing and newsrooms were going to a skeleton crew, the Board of Governors of the Un...Read More
Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance
#DmtDaily SRSLY Wrong is a "research-based comedy podcast" run by a pair of Canadian fellas with a background in radical politics...Read More
Civil society groups protest the sale of .ORG to a private equity fund and a collection of Republican billionaires
#DmtDaily Earlier this month, management of the .org top-level domain underwent a radical shift : first, ICANN dropped price-caps on .org do...Read More
Mayor Pete: Obama should have left Chelsea Manning to rot in prison for 35 years
#DmtDaily Here's a spicy take! South Bend, Indiana Mayor and would-be Democratic presidential nominee Pete Buttigieg told CBS that he wa...Read More
Twitter is awash in disinformation bots tweeting lies about the Kentucky gubernatorial election results
#DmtDaily It's a preview of just how badly things could go in 2020: the Kentucky gubernatorial race was narrowly decided for the Democra...Read More
Amazon spent a fortune to block a socialist candidate's re-election to Seattle city council; she won anyway
#DmtDaily Former tech worker Kshama Sawant ( previously ) won an unprecedented victory in 2013 by running for Seattle city council as on the...Read More
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