Mon. 11/15 - Welcome To The Human Library

Zillow is out of the iBuying game. What does that mean for its competitors and for the future of real estate? Plus, a look into the Human Library. And astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to take shelter in their return ships this morning due to on-coming space junk.

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Links:

• Why Zillow Couldn’t Make Algorithmic House Pricing Work (Wired)
• Is that viral TikTok about housing market manipulation true? (Input)
• Redfin CEO explains how its iBuyer home buying program avoided pitfalls that sunk Zillow Group (Geek Wire)
• Zillow (Saturday Night Live, YouTube)
• This library lets you borrow people instead of books. It just may help bridge our bitter divisions (CNN)
• Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships (Space.com)
• NASA was forced to change the orbit of the ISS due to space junk (Slash Gear)
• Space Station Space Debris and Human Spacecraft (NASA)
• Russia blows up a satellite, creating a dangerous debris cloud in space (The Verge)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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