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It's a commonplace that labels like "left" and "right" don't mean anything, but that's not true.1/ The first clean distinguishing test I ever heard came from @StevenBrust: "Ask what's more

During the pandemic, classical musicians and orchestras are reliant on streaming their performances to maintain their profile and solicit donations. That's a problem, because the platforms' copyright bots HATE classical

Softbank's investments - Uber, Doordash, Wework, etc - are cons. They launder Saudi oil billions with "businesses" that lose titanic amount of money for many years, while also preying on

Last summer, I did an interview with the Singularity Blog podcast (my last interview was all the way back in 2012). As is my wont, I got to talking about

#ModernMonetaryTheory is an economic lens for understanding how money works. It starts from the commonsense assertion that national governments are money-issuers, and the rest of us are money users, and

The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au

Gig economy delivery apps claim that they're operating "two-sided markets," connecting delivery people with restaurants. Actually, they're useless, overcapitalized, predatory, money-haemorrhaging parasites.1/ They raise ti

There are good reasons to worry about Facebook's "fact checking" efforts, primarily that the company is a raging garbage fire that destroys everything it touches and only has two approaches

Math students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have been ordered to buy an external webcam and a means of fixing it over their shoulder so that proctors can

You may recall the Wannacry ransomware epidemic in 2017, when hospitals, businesses and governments were shutting down because their computers were being encrypted by malware that relied on a leaked

Flushing and Corona are two adjacent neighborhoods in Queens, NY. They are both working-class immigrant neighborhoods whose residents experience high degrees of covid comorbidities like hypertension. 1/ Both neighborhoods are

Yes. For example, in Ford's case, markets allocated capital to him so that he could translate and distribute the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to encourage a made in