Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)

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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.
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Pluralistic: Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies (12 Mar 2024)

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Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
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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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The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid, but still…
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Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.
Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."
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