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Smart sex-toys are a terrible idea, notwithstanding the ways that they work for certain kinks (to say nothing of sex workers, who can charge for access to them during livestreams).
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"Subprime Attention Crisis" is a new book by @timhwang that argues that the ad-tech market is a bubble created by an ad industry doing what it does best: convincing advertisers
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Capitalism's most credible defender is @MazzucatoM, an economist whose histories of - and vision for - a strong state that shapes and manages markets is today's most plausible vision for
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Hackers have developed a malware-as-a-service that packages up realtime Covid-19 maps with malware droppers that infect people who load them.https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/live-coronavirus-map-used-to-spread-malware/1/ This reminds me
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If you only learn one technical term from labor economics, make it "chickenization" - @CLeonardNews's term for the way that the Big Three poultry processors have structured the chicken-farming industry
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Chekhov exhorted writers not to put a gun onstage unless a character is going to fire it. But this advice has a corollary for audiences: "If there's a pistol on
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Let's meet some job creators! Private equity plute Leonard Green bought Prospect Medical a decade ago. He and his CEO Sam Lee, spent the years since buying up hospitals that
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In his magesterial, longrunning series of papers explaining why Uber is not, and never will be, a viable business, transportation analyst Hubert Horan calls the business a "bezzle."http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html 1/ Bezzle
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The EU Commission has been consulting widely on a set of rules for Big Tech companies, and they've made it clear that there's a very wide range of restrictions on
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It sure feels like we're living through an unprecedented boom in newsletters, but while email-based newsletters are experiencing a major surge, newsletters themselves have a long and honorable history.https://www.wired.com/story/peak-ne
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My 2019 book RADICALIZED opened with a novella called Unauthorized Bread, a tale of self-determination versus technical oppression that starts with a Libyan refugee hacking her stupid smart-toaster, which locks
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Canadian Prime Ministers have a fun gambit: when things start to go really badly for them, they "prorogue" (suspend) Parliament, which dissolves all committees, inquiries, etc, until such time as
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