Politics
Shopify’s Billionaire CEO Thinks Only Taxpayers Deserve a Vote. He Has Five. You Have Zero.
Tobias Lütke is rich. Very rich. His company, Shopify, is worth about $154 billion. But apparently, wealth isn’t enough; he wants to rewrite the rules of democracy. This week, Lütke took to social media to endorse a system that would strip voting rights from anyone who doesn’t pay income tax. He called it a “good […]
Money
The Emerald City’s Slow Bleed: How Seattle Became America’s Hardest Place to Find a Job
Remember when Seattle was the golden child? A decade ago, tech money flooded the Pacific Northwest. Amazon and Microsoft minted millionaires daily. The Puget Sound Regional Council clocked 40,000 new jobs a year. It was a gold rush. Now? The gold is gone. One-third of downtown is a ghost town. Job postings have cratered. Even […]
Musk’s Giant Metal Tube Survives Another Splashdown With Fresh Satellites in Tow
SpaceX just hurled its monstrous metal tower into the sky again. The 407-foot Starship roared out of South Texas on Friday, carrying 20 high-tech Starlink satellites on a half-world trip. NASA watched closely. They need this giant tin can to land astronauts on the moon eventually, so every scrap of data matters. It actually survived […]
Money
The Emerald City’s Slow Bleed: How Seattle Became America’s Hardest Place to Find a Job
Remember when Seattle was the golden child? A decade ago, tech money flooded the Pacific Northwest. Amazon and Microsoft minted millionaires daily. The Puget Sound Regional Council clocked 40,000 new jobs a year. It was a gold rush. Now? The gold is gone. One-third of downtown is a ghost town. Job postings have cratered. Even […]
Musk’s Giant Metal Tube Survives Another Splashdown With Fresh Satellites in Tow
SpaceX just hurled its monstrous metal tower into the sky again. The 407-foot Starship roared out of South Texas on Friday, carrying 20 high-tech Starlink satellites on a half-world trip. NASA watched closely. They need this giant tin can to land astronauts on the moon eventually, so every scrap of data matters. It actually survived […]
Texas Egg Recall: 1.6 Million Dozen Shells Flagged for Salmonella
Check your cartons. Midwest Poultry Services is pulling nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs off the shelves. The culprit? Salmonella Enteritidis. The FDA sounded the alarm on Wednesday, targeting both white and brown cage-free shell eggs stamped out of the company’s Texas facilities. That is a lot of bad omelets. If you shop at Kroger in […]
