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Qaddafi-era laws allow unauthorized foreigners, regardless of age, to be forced to work in the country without pay. A Libyan national can pick up migrants from a prison for a fee, become their “guardian,” and oversee private work for a fixed amount of time.
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
newyorker.com
to “elevate” the average sophistication of writing on their platform, Medium hired journalists and authors to write for them, and even had a strategy to get people to create entire professional magazine-like publications on their platform. Some of the writing that came out of this was truly incredible, but it also cost a lot of money, which was quickly becoming an issue.
Did Medium Succeed?
every.to
Beyond his prowess as a Silicon Valley Merlin, Jobs’s footwear choices—or often, lack thereof—have remained a persistent fascination well past his death. He’s been held up as a dadcore icon for his near-religious dedication to New Balance’s blocky running sneakers. He was often photographed during his lifetime going conspicuously barefoot around the Apple offices. In his biography of Jobs, author Walter Isaacson recalled how in the mid-1970s, the budding tech savant arrived at the Atari offices wearing sandals and was referred to as a “hippie kid.”
Steve Jobs’s Beat-Up Birkenstocks Sold for $218,000. A Fan Made His Own.
wsj.com
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