For years I've been meaning to write something about how the original sin of economics was defining utility in $ values, because it makes people think that everything can and should be financialized and it's all equal in the end. RE:
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More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social)
The co-founder of Kalshi says: "β€ŠThe long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
I found this... in my For You feed... RE:
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
It's been said many times but the For You feed by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social really is quite good. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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In 2006, Google added Techdirt as one of 5 "recommended" Tech news sources for iGoogle. To this day, I still have no idea how we got picked. I still miss iGoogle as well. Simpler times. RE:
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I first discovered techdirt when it was featured on the long-dead iGoogle homepage in like 2006. I’m still so pleased to see the important work t...
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal. [www.imls.gov/news/stateme...](https://www.imls.gov/news/statement-agencys-reinstatement-terminated-imls-grants ) [Statement of Agency’s Reinstat...](https://www.imls.gov/news/statement-agencys-reinstatement-terminated-imls-grants )
In writing up my post about this, I bent over backwards to make sure no one would think we were launching a memecoin cryptocurrency nonsense thing... this is a real, physical coin. RE:
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Larry Ellison isn't buying us. RE:
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They're putting Grok in charge of national security investigations. What could go wrong? RE:
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emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
Dan Bongino just posted a list of shitty things (like shifting FBI away fr public and corruption to hunting migrants, releasing details of criminal...
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This is fascinating... RE:
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Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social)
I generally share @astronomers.bsky.social's skepticism of generative AI use for slides. But, I decided to run a test using NotebookLM and now, I'm...
Is there any chance that Donald Trump could locate Somalia on a map? RE:
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Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social)
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