Pluralistic: Millionaire on billionaire violence (10 Aug 2025)

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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code.
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AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world.
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Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors.
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You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.)
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Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund.
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Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot.
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