Pluralistic: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money (18 Mar 2023)

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SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan?
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Pluralistic: Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping (16 Mar 2023)

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Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.
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Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists (15 Mar 2023)

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Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.
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Pluralistic: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal (12 Mar 2023)

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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.
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Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

They turned the cottage into a factory.

A woodcut of a weaver’s loft, where a woman works at a hand-loom. Out of the window opposite her looms the glowing, menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ On the wall behind her is the poster from Magpie Killjoy’s ‘Steampunk Magazine’ that reads, ‘Love the machine, hate the factory.’ — Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

Despite what you may have heard, the Luddites weren’t technophobes. They were skilled workers, expert high tech machine operators who supplied the world with fine textiles. Thanks to a high degree of labor organization through craft guilds, the workers received a fair share of the profit from their labors. They worked hard, but they earned enough through their labors to enjoy lives of dignity and comfort.

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Pluralistic: Excuseflation (11 Mar 2023)

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Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.
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Pluralistic: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in (10 Mar 2023)

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The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy.
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Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023)

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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Pluralistic: End to End (07 Mar 2023)

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End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.
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Pluralistic: Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed (06 Mar 2023)

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Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed: Janice Eberly provided cover for Tim Geithner's policy of No Banker Left Behind.
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