#Commodity

Quick thoughts on GPT-3 and the Future of Creative Work—https://twitter.com/jordanmoore/status/1287003468868321280 Yes, it’s only a matter of time before the AI replaces your day to day work as you know it
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I have some thoughts on Gremlins 2, demonology, Oedipal robots, the Chthulucene, Jay-Z’s wardrobe, Hobbes’ Leviathan, commodity fetishism, the Leather Daddy Gremlin, Key and Peele, feedback loops, John Carpenter, Toy
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BLACK NOBILITY are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, Italy, who in the 12th C held the privileged trading rights (monopolies).The first of three crusades, from 1063 - 1123,
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Many critics (especially those in media) have been questioning Substack's $65m raise. "Why raise so much capital??"I think it's genius. Here is why:[THREAD] Substack has done an incredible job at
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Great damage has been done these last seven days. The government, the PM and the man who gives both their instructions have all degraded themselves. They have destroyed something that
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What an absolute shambles this government’s farming and food police are The current system starts being wound down next year and they are nowhere near having a well thought through
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Another defense of racist statues. An honest question: if people can't tear down racist statues because they perpetuate dangerous historical myths, what right does anyone have to demand changes in
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#Vanilla prices are likely the most volatile of any agricultural commodity.After a 5-year boom, prices seem to crash this year.Time for a thread on vanilla price volatility, the impact of
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A number of key admissions stand out from the leaked report:1 On any view, the party was mired in antisemitism. When @JVoiceLabour denied that fact, it was lying. How they
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I can't turn my brain off, even at night or asleep. It's always asking: what's next. Last night, in the early morning it was doing the same thing, and I
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1/ Every morning, millions of people around the world wake up, make their coffee, and check a few key numbers—200 points, $1,100 a troy ounce, $40 a barrel. Those numbers
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7 worst sins in Islam: (1)The greatest of these sins is shirk (associating others with Allah), which leads to doom with no hope of redemption, and if a person dies
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Thread on (a) why May WTI #Crude traded negative last night?(b) what's retail piling longs on Oil ETFs(c) The way forward. It costs Dollars to store Oil. But currently there
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a thread of my favorite greys anatomy quotes said by or to/about jo “today i watched you teeter on that edge, bring yourself back—by yourself, bring me back, and
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Happy birthday to the World Wide Web, 32 years old today! And as it’s now middle aged* let’s ask the key question: what went wrong?(* don’t @ me!) The history
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I can't post the whole report, but by popular demand, here are a few additional excerpts from my farewell note at Bernstein:(1/x)https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1300483043006779392 2/ This note was originally my boss Toni'
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