@memeorandum Funny how this bit is more than a page down: "The alleged arrangements stem from an effort by Jim Biden to raise money from Qatari sources for ventures in the U.S. beginning in the months after his older brother left the vice presidency.”
So this all occurred when Joe Biden was NOT in politics.
This story about Balaji Srinivasan is absolutely bonkers. https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
The fact that VCs & others have not run away from any association with this psychopath is a pretty bad sign. WTF is wrong with YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz that they’re willing to be associated with this psycho?
This is a fantastic story about how the search engine tail wags the online content dog.
It's a form of enshittification, but it's a two-sided one that involves google's algorithmic choices and web designers' responses via Campbell's law (when a metric becomes a target, people do stupid shit)
https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices at SCOTUS because there were 9 Circuit Courts.
Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?
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