Whitney Kimball
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Blue Origin Wants In on Luxury Space Real Estate
Blue Origin has big plans for its own space station, a project called Orbital Reef that would be “mixed use business park” and the “premier commercial destination in low Earth orbit.” Sort of like a cruise ship that fits 10 people and doesn’t travel to multiple destinations. It’ll be a little smaller than the International…
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Crypto Bros Bought the ‘OG NFT,’ aka Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Album
Crypto enthusiasts bought the Wu-Tang album, possibly a haunted talisman whose previous owner Pharma Bro went to prison shortly after he announced that he’d bought it in a $US2 ($3) million troll. Can these dudes handle it? The New York Times and Rolling Stone have profiles. They seem fine.
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Netflix Employees Protesting Transphobia Present Their Demands Ahead of Walkout
Netflix’s trans employee resource group has sent the company a list of demands, among them, that the company acknowledges that transphobic content causes harm. Last week, in a company-wide memo responding to critics of Dave Chappelle, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos specifically rejected that this is a fact. “While some employees disagree, we have a strong…
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Report: Amazon Used Sales Data to Duplicate Popular Products and Box Out Retailers
Reuters has uncovered damning evidence about the extent to which Amazon has systematically planned to rip off its third-party sellers in India — to the extent that it’s virtually impossible for the company to keep up a years-long charade.