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.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 24 Nov 2021

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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.
The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars.
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Pluralistic: 16 Oct 2021

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The Chicago Tribune is being murdered before our eyes: And it's a serial killing.
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Pluralistic: 16 Aug 2021

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Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity: Henry George was an optimist.
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Pluralistic: 14 May 2021

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A weapon of mass financial destruction: Your pension is funding the destruction of the real economy…and itself.
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Pluralistic: 04 May 2021

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Whales decry the casino economy: It's the high rollers you gotta watch out for.
Qualia: How Law & Econ pulled a qualitative bait-and-switch.
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Pluralistic: 30 Mar 2021

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How to donate to John Varley: Paypal versus science fiction.
Minimum wage vs Wall Street bonuses: The fight for $44.
America needs a high-fiber broadband diet: AT&T to rural America: "Drop dead (slowly)."
Als Sysadmins die Erde beherrschten: My "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," auf Deutsch.
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Pluralistic: 30 Jan 2021

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Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity: A thoughtful analysis.
Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity: I thought about it some more.
Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets: Even if there's no angels, there's still a path to glory.
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Pluralistic: 15 Jan 2021

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Laura Poitras fired from First Look: She says it's because she spoke out on Reality Winner.
Kickstarting a pad of "Tiny Paper Dungeons": Procedural paper adventures for your pocket.
Facebook says it's the best henhouse fox: Only we can stop Qanon.
I was investigated by the FBI: It took 20 years!
Yugoslavia's Cold War obsession with Mexican music: Nonaligned Yumex gave us Celovečernji the Kid.
Machine learning is a honeypot for phrenologists: "AI" researchers just can't put away the fucking calipers.
Disneyland kills annual passes: No more Disney at a stroll.
Tesla's valuation is 1600x its profitability: Finacialization, in green and white.
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Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020

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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
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