Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy" (18 Sep 2024)

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There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy": When "fiduciary duty" means "whatever I wanted to do."
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Pluralistic: Big Tech disrupted disruption (08 Feb 2024)

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Big Tech disrupted disruption: We don't have to care, we're the phone company.
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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: America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel (05 August 2023)

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America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel: HCA's administrators berate doctors over "missed hospice opportunities."
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Pluralistic: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies(06 June 2023)

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A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).
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Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)

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The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting: Or, if you prefer, "plundering."
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Pluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023)

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This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming.
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Pluralistic: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead' (07 Dec 2022)

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EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater.
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2022 Twitch's Chokepoint Capitalism

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Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism: "Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers."
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Pluralistic: 10 Aug 2022

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A modest proposal to fix contracts: Rescuing contracts from sprawling garbage legalese novellas masquerading as "agreements."
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