Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America's oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024)

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How America's oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss fairy tale: Temporarily embarrassed millionaires aren't born, they're made.
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Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024)

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How I got scammed: And why AI will make it worse.
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Pluralistic: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (31 Jan 2024)

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Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses: A little bit of nonsensewatching for a Wednesday.
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Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine (29 Jan 2024)

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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine: The Mechanical Turk would like to have a word with all of us.
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Pluralistic: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons (27 Jan 2024)

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Solar is a market for (financial) lemons: Our Slow AIs have an alignment problem.
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Pluralistic: Brinklump Linkdump (20 Jan 2024)

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Brinklump Linkdump: Indiscriminate heterogeniety for the sabbath.
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Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024)

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Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.
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Pluralistic: The REAL AI automation threat to workers (11 Jan 2024)

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The real AI automation threat to workers: The robot can't replace you, but it CAN replace your shitty boss.
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Pluralistic: What kind of bubble is AI? (19 Dec 2023)

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What kind of bubble is AI?: My latest column for Locus Magazine.
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Pluralistic: An Epic antitrust loss for Google (12 Dec 2023)

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An Epic antitrust loss for Google: They can't help but put it in writing.
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