Matt Crum
@mattcrum.bsky.social
tech + global development, global good, and poverty alleviation with an interest in decentralization, montani semper liberi. ✌️
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Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
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As we hit publish on this piece, news broke that the US had refused to join a UN resolution condemning Russia for the war. But US switching sides and joining the aggressor, @theunpopulist.net's Ukrainian writer notes won't bring peace to her country or the world
www.theunpopulist.net/p/rewarding-...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/rewarding-...
Rewarding Putin's Aggression Would Consign the World to Chronic Warfare
A 'peace' deal without Ukraine or Europe at the table will not stick
www.theunpopulist.net
February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As we hit publish on this piece, news broke that the US had refused to join a UN resolution condemning Russia for the war. But US switching sides and joining the aggressor, @theunpopulist.net's Ukrainian writer notes won't bring peace to her country or the world
www.theunpopulist.net/p/rewarding-...
www.theunpopulist.net/p/rewarding-...
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Proposition 103 (1988), which has screwed up insurance markets in California from that day to this, was promoted by Ralph Nader in part as revenge against the state's insurers for having backed liability reform. I wrote up its craziness at the time in a piece with Scott Harrington.
Canute's Revenge: Proposition 103 and its Aftermath | Proposition 106 and the Incompetent Consumer
P>Canute’s Revenge: Prop 103 and its Aftermath–Scott Harrington, U. of South Carolina; Walter Olson, Manhattan Institute Proposition 106 and the Incompetent Consumer–Peter Huber, Manhattan Institute C...
manhattan.institute
January 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Proposition 103 (1988), which has screwed up insurance markets in California from that day to this, was promoted by Ralph Nader in part as revenge against the state's insurers for having backed liability reform. I wrote up its craziness at the time in a piece with Scott Harrington.
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Boston bragging about how a third of the pitiful amount of housing it builds is “affordable” irritated me enough to write this week’s newsletter all about just how misguided that view is. reason.com/2025/01/07/w...
Why building a lot of 'affordable' housing is bad news for affordability
Cities become affordable when lots of new housing is built, not when a larger percentage of a small amount of new housing is made "affordable" by regulation.
reason.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Boston bragging about how a third of the pitiful amount of housing it builds is “affordable” irritated me enough to write this week’s newsletter all about just how misguided that view is. reason.com/2025/01/07/w...