Wednesday, the House approved a bill ostensibly targeting “antisemitic speech” on college campuses, which would update Title VI’s definition of “antisemitism” in accordance with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. In practice, this means no more federal funds for any institution, public or private, that tolerates virulent criticism of Israel, which is now considered racist. Obviously, the bill is outrageous. It doesn’t matter that the campus jihadis suck, in this house we don’t ban political speech, and outlawing tired platitudes like “the existence of Israel is racist” or “Israel is like Nazi Germany” is especially annoying for Americans, who have endured such insults for decades, and will be expected to do so moving forward. Fortunately, there is a satisfying solution for all deranged parties involved: simply stop funding private universities with taxpayer dollars, no matter how much they do or do not love Israel. Thanks, problem solved!

A recent writeup in The Information tries to make sense of “spiteful startups,” the crop of successful or ascendant companies (Anduril, Rippling, xAI) headed up by founders unceremoniously ousted from past jobs or deemed personae non gratae by the press. The author offers no theory about why “DGAF swagger” seems positively correlated with founding a successful company — though he does wonder whether it’s just a noxious byproduct of “Twitter-posting brain” — but the explanation is obvious: a willingness to be disliked (rather than compromise your principles) sets founders apart from the herd, helping them identify the kind of market gaps industry-defining companies fill. To put it plainly: you can’t get “fuck you” money without saying a couple “fuck you”s.

DeSantis just signed a total ban on lab-grown meat in Florida, from manufacturing through distribution. "Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals," he said. But why stop there? Florida's cattle ranchers inject herds with synthetically produced growth hormones like estrogen and a cocktail of antibiotics to keep cows alive in the crowded and inhumane conditions characteristic of CAFOs, essentially making them large-scale cattle-growing labs. Shouldn’t we also ban… okay, who am I kidding? What's really happening here is Big Beef took note of Big Milk's disastrous failure to capture regulators, which allowed the alternative milk industry to eat up a huge portion of its market share, and is now determined to aggressively pre-empt a similar outcome (i.e. corruption). Whatever, for the first time I'm glad I live in California, I guess.

Aviation analysts are noting more extreme swings in flight and hotel prices, as algorithms get better at anticipating supply and demand. If one was designing a business travel management platform, how might one set a pricing policy for employees that takes this into account? If you were TravelPerk, you’d design “dynamic budgets” that allow employees to book their travel in a price range determined by the cheapest option (or the median price, for the less militant). It’s one feature of many that TravelPerk has developed to create a hands-off, painless business travel solution to help companies book flights, track spend and maintain policy compliance. So instead of instituting a draconian travel policy that gets ignored, or declaring open season on the first-class cabin, get a solution that keeps everyone happy and expenses in line.

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vcs should invest in companies that create hype cycles, rather than those that simply follow them

earlier this year, river page found that florida’s lab-grown-meat ban is either meant to shield ranchers from future competition or own the libs, but it sure isn’t about protecting consumers

last year, zachary emmanuel wrote the definitive account of milk’s demise, and the forces – climate regulations, big oat, animal-rights activists, etc. – that have defined the food culture wars

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