When you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a legally enforceable contract. Even if you never signed anything. These days, we enter into these contracts so often, it can feel like no big deal.
But then there are the horror stories like Greg Selden's. He tried to sue AirBnB for racial discrimination while using their site. But he had basically signed away his ability to sue AirBnB when he made an account. That agreement was tucked away in a little red link, something most people might not even bother to click through.
But, it wasn't always like this. On today's show, we go back in time to understand how the law of contracts got rewritten. And why today, you can accept a contract without even noticing it.
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CBS News Roundup - 07/14/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition
Unrelenting Heat waves across the country; Hollywood actors hit the picket line on strike; an architect in New York is charged with 3 murders.
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This Machine Kills - *Unlocked* – For a Political Theory of Insurance
[Unlocking this one from the paywall] We start by talking about Ed’s new sci-fi / cosmic horror story in the latest issue of Logic(s). We cruise by the aborted cage fight between Zuck and Musk. Then somehow make our way to a long discussion of behavioral insurance technologies and start sketching out a political theory of insurance and its institutional forms in society.
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••• The Circle | Ed's new story https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/the-circle/
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Consider This from NPR - Alabama’s Last Two Executions Failed. They’re Trying Again Next Week
James Barber is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Alabama, for the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2001. It's the first execution since Governor Kay Ivey paused capital punishment in the state and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of death penalty protocols after the state failed to execute two inmates last year.
Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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Consider This from NPR - Alabama’s Last Two Executions Failed. They’re Trying Again Next Week
James Barber is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Alabama, for the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2001. It's the first execution since Governor Kay Ivey paused capital punishment in the state and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of death penalty protocols after the state failed to execute two inmates last year.
Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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Consider This from NPR - Alabama’s Last Two Executions Failed. They’re Trying Again Next Week
James Barber is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Alabama, for the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2001. It's the first execution since Governor Kay Ivey paused capital punishment in the state and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of death penalty protocols after the state failed to execute two inmates last year.
Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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Host Scott Detrow speaks with The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig. She reported extensively on Alabama's troubles with lethal injection last year. She says the state's process is very opaque, and almost nothing of the review was made public.
Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert at Fordham Law School, says lethal injection problems are an issue all around the country.
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The Gist - They Got A Monster
The notorious Baltimore Police unit dramatized in the HBO Series We Own This City, is examined in a new documentary I Got a Monster that veers away from the charisma of the cops and focusses on the havoc they wrought. Filmmaker Kevin Abrams, and key defense attorney and current Baltimore State Attorney Ivan Bates join us. Plus, there have always been floods, there has always been rain, but these are worse. What to do with that? And a serial killer nabbed, but not yet named.
Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - CONSENSUS CONVERSATIONS: Remember Why We’re Here – Crypto’s True Purpose
A Consensus 2023 panel with Michael Casey, Caitlin Long, Neha Narula and Erik Voorhees.
The crash of 2022 laid bare how far the cryptocurrency industry strayed from its early ideals, becoming as opaque as the system it challenged, and this year’s banking panics have underscored its reliance on that system. On the eve of CoinDesk’s tenth anniversary, it's an appropriate moment to take stock of how the industry lost its way, and whether and how it can still deliver on its original promises of greater transparency and resilience. After all, bank runs and runaway inflation merely highlight the need to rethink the legacy paradigm.
Michael Casey, CoinDesk’s chief content officer, moderates alongside panelists:
- Caitlin Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank
- Neha Narula, director of Digital Currency Initiative
- Erik Voorhees, founder of ShapeShift
This episode is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and edited by Ryan Huntington, with additional production assistance from Eleanor Pahl. Cover image by Kevin Ross and the theme song is "Get Down" by Elision.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Big Taxpayer Bucks for Buc-ee’s
Buc-ee's has garnered a reputation as an oasis for the weary traveler, but should taxpayers have to support it financially? Cato's Marc Joffe and John Mozena of the Center for Economic Accountability comment.
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Federalist Radio Hour - A True Crime Debrief With David Harsanyi
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi and Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky discuss several riveting murder investigations, explain the effect technology has on cases previously deemed cold, and analyze why women, in particular, are drawn to the true crime genre.