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Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
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I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 11 hours ago • 1731 comments

Remember when the CEO of Coinbase made a big deal over Keeping Politics Out of the Workplace

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

The conceptual model that voter attitudes are relatively fixed, rather than malleable as a result of strategic messaging, has been a constant underlying DECADES of failed Democratic Party campaigns. It reflects the complete absence of two levels of party organization: www.salon.com/2025/05/10/w...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 18 hours ago • 209 comments

One thing I really hate about the British media is the way that they make us look like idiots to foreigners.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

#NoKings sure! But what instead? What if we found a way to actually make the will of the people central to our democracy? 30 years of testing shows how it can work in James Fishkin's new book. My author interview explores the remarkable results: 1/13 www.salon.com/2025/06/14/d...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Incredibly irresponsible for about a hundred different reasons

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

From what I can see, the Telegraph is giving a full uncritical online platform to an immigration policy that is more extreme than that offered up by the neo-Nazi British National Party at the 2010 general election - general-election-2010.co.uk/bnp-manifest...

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

at some point it is going to be America getting blown the fuck out by sophisticated, multi-year intel-driven strikes, because we put the dumbest and most venal people in the world in charge of counterintelligence

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

Even an appallingly loaded, dishonestly framed question of "Trump should deploy the military to bring order to violent protests" doesn't even command a majority.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Infuriating to think that the party could easily have another half dozen of her, but would rather hang on to a crowd of 80 year old incumbents

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Far too many people are trying to farm trivial amounts of clout by telling us "Well **I** always knew that every single one of them were as bad as this!". It doesn't make you look clever. If you have an analysis under which nothing much has changed in American politics in the last two decades...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I will not believe in AGI superintelligence until we have a chatbot that could advise him "if you think you are able to fly, start by attempting to take off from ground level"

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Been working hard on this project since the start of April. Out next month. The title is an allusion to Keynes's polemic against Churchill's return to the gold standard, exactly 100 years ago

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There’s a real possibility that basically every major company launches a stablecoin and it becomes so annoying that people just keep using cash

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I’ve said this before I think. I think of money and credit in terms of the interplay between elasticity and discipline. Crypto is the interplay of inelasticity at the intensive margin and indiscipline at the extensive margin.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Pre-paid card and gift cards are one of the most effective forms of money laundering and grift going after all!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 SECRET FINMA FILES REVEALED 🚨 After a request from the FT and others, London's High Court ordered the release of 500+ pages of previously confidential reports from Swiss regulator Finma into Credit Suisse’s dodgy dealings with Greensill. Rundown of the highlights here 👇🏻 on.ft.com/3SP3RAY

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India in 2014. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments