Pluralistic: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024)

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"Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed: The particular torments of reverse-centaurs are drastically under-theorized.
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Pluralistic: Paying for it doesn't make it a market (22 Apr 2024)

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Paying for it doesn't make it a market: But competition does.
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Pluralistic: Greedflation, but for prisoners (20 Apr 2024)

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Greedflation, but for prisoners: The first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices is a fucking nightmare.
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Pluralistic: Precaratize bosses (19 Apr 2024)

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Precaratize bosses: When the ruling class tells you what motivates them, believe them the first time.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" (18 Apr 2024)

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Podcasting "Capitalists Hate Capitalism": "Competition is for losers."
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Pluralistic: The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant (17 Apr 2024)

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The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant: Blair Fix, Henry Farrell and Maria Farrell know more about Marty Hench than I do.
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Pluralistic: Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us" (16 Apr 2024)

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Rebecca Roque's "Till Human Voices Wake Us": A brilliant technorealist teen thriller/murder mystery.
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Pluralistic: How to screw up a whistleblower law (15 Apr 2024)

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How to screw up a whistleblower law: We want kingpins, not powerless underlings.
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Pluralistic: Twinkfrump Linkdump (13 Apr 2024)

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Twinkfrump Linkdump: All the miscellany that didn't make it.
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Pluralistic: No, "convenience" isn't the problem (12 Apr 2024)

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No, "convenience" isn't the problem: Enshittification isn't caused by "lazy consumers."
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