The Billionaire Movie Online

[Lilly Solo]

Ido appreciate your mention of the Billionaires for Bush. I am reminded so often of the fine work our people in the media do; it is always such a pleasure to see the chatty classes discuss the natty classes. I have told my assistant to clip your charming article for my scrapbook, and unless she wants to join the ill-dressed droves on the unemployment line it will soon be done.

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Joe Ricketts has personally pledged scholarship funding to the New College online program. The Ricketts donation will be managed by the New College Foundation, which is headed by Sydney Gruters, wife of State Senator and former Florida Republican Party Chair Joe Gruters.

Christopher Rufo: Your entire time, everything you say is so angry, is so negative, is so critical. And again, not nice being accusations of breaking the law. And so I would say that either make your accusation or shut up!

A New College press release said that Dr. David Harvey, a historian on campus since 2000, will oversee the program, and that New College faculty will teach it. Harvey, apparently the sole faculty member who was asked to be part in the creation of the New College distance learning program, is traveling this week. He agreed to be interviewed by WSLR News next week.

JW: In his substack, Florida education activist Billy Townsend has pointed out that the Ricketts Foundation has linked up with Academica, the South Florida-based for-profit school administration company. Academica is under federal investigation since plummeting student performance forced it to drop the administration of a small, troubled public school district in the Florida Panhandle. It was the Florida Department of Education, under then-Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, that picked the for-profit to take over the public school district in the first place, and oversaw it while it ran the Jefferson County school district.

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Fast-forward 2.5 years, and Unfinished has been fully rebranded into Project Liberty. Project Liberty seeks to build a new infrastructure for the Web where users are in control, not corporations. The crux of the new architecture is a protocol called DSNP, which stands for Distributed Social Networking Protocol. This new protocol envisions us connecting to each other through social networks that run on an open-sourced Internet not owned by companies such as Facebook or Google. Currently these companies use our data and interactions online to serve us ads and keep us hooked to our devices. Project Liberty, via DSNP, aims to give us a nearly identical social networking experience without the constant digital surveillance, removing the incentive to use our personal data as a commodity.

So, when Project Liberty founder and benefactor Frank McCourt released his new book, Our Biggest Fight, it was only fitting for me to interview him. Frank used to own the Los Angeles Dodgers, a storied Major League Baseball franchise here in the U.S. He took some of the proceeds from his sale of the Dodgers and created the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. (He talked a bit about that in our interview, including one revealing anecdote that inspired Project Liberty). We also talked about history, in particular Thomas Paine, who Frank has looked to for inspiration. I found Frank to be candid and heartfelt, and we had a very earnest conversation about the issues we are facing and the challenges to fix them.

At the time I knew little about Unfinished, the nonprofit entity hosting the event. But at the conference, which occurred on the far west side of Manhattan in a venue called \u201CThe Shed,\u201D I got a glimpse into what they were building.

Unfinished was, then, a nascent community of practitioners and scholars interested in fixing what they termed a \u201Cbroken\u201D Internet. The very architecture of our digital world needed mending, the argument went, and Unfinished would take the lead in mending it. At the heart of the effort was an initiative called Project Liberty.

It\u2019s a promising concept. Will it work in the real world? That remains a far more vexing question. Like any new product, the technical efforts are half the battle; the other half will be getting users to use the platform and stick with it. DSNP has been in development for several years, as has Project Liberty / Unfinished. Millions of dollars have been invested, with millions more committed.

That said, I\u2019ve been impressed with Unfinished / Project Liberty since I first met the team back in 2021. I\u2019ve been so impressed, my History Communication Institute has joined with more than 70 organizations that are part of the Project Liberty Alliance. Last year, we partnered with Project Liberty on an off-the-record briefing about artificial intelligence, and I was interviewed by Project Liberty / Unfinished in 2022 when my book, History, Disrupted, was released. The organization has been a great supporter of our efforts to make the Web and social media better places for accurate historical information.

Will Frank\u2019s plan for a new Internet succeed? I encourage you to listen to our conversation and decide for yourself. After all, billionaires at the helm of social media companies led us into this messy and exploitative social networking world we now operate within in. Maybe a billionaire can help lead us out of it?

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company announced the opening of its online pharmacy Wednesday. The pharmacy says it will bypass health care industry "middlemen" and help consumers avoid high drug prices by charging manufacturers' prices plus a flat 15% markup and pharmacist fee.

The launch comes several weeks after the company established its own pharmacy benefit manager. PBMs are companies that work directly with health insurers, drugmakers and pharmacies to manage drug benefits and have a major impact on the prices of prescription medicines.

Sky-high drug costs have long been a problem in the U.S. A Gallup poll released in September found that 18 million Americans reported being unable to afford at least one doctor-prescribed medication in the previous three months. President Biden said in December that the U.S. had to do something about "outrageously expensive" prescription drugs.

Cuban's pharmacy says it will negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers to lower costs for consumers. The pharmacy doesn't accept health insurance but says prices will still be lower than what people would typically pay at a pharmacy.

"The markup on potentially lifesaving drugs that people depend on is a problem that can't be ignored," Alex Oshmyansky, CEO of Cuban's online pharmacy, said in a statement. "It is imperative that we take action and help expand access to these medications for those who need them most."

People were so baffled at this attitude that I began to doubt myself and look into how to get funding for projects in the democracy space. And because I thought it would be a good idea to be organised about it, I made a database.

That turned out to be a good idea, because it revealed the influence exerted by a wealthy few over civil society. To illustrate this, I am going to show how just a tiny fraction of a small slice of one funding network starts, but definitely does not end, with eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar.

Now that may boggle your mind a bit. Indeed, feel free to draw yourself a diagram. You may need it, because this is just the beginning. Many of these funds fund other funds. That fund other funds. That fund other funds.

Now, an op-ed is supposed to be an opinion that the author (often an expert in the area concerned) has genuinely thought about and is prepared to stand behind, although, unfortunately, the practice of writing one first and then finding someone willing to put their name on it is not unknown in political circles. Still, the factory-level production exhibited by More in Common takes things to a whole new level.

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