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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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Reminded of this from a year ago www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

The alternate timeline where Silicon Valley Bank depositors, including Circle, don’t get bailed out looks very different.

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history

submitted 522 days ago • 1 comment

I maintain that Chait is the American Zizek, for good and bad

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed. About time. Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits. Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

One fascinating thing about the the States atm is that the people notionally in charge are incapable of anything other than playing themselves on tv, but people working for them are able to, say, pull out coherent 1,000-odd page tax bills; it does raise the question about who is leading who.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

The takeaway here is that the next time the US goes on a war of revenge and misadventure, no one should go along for the ride

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Rachel Reeves has spent the past year taking brickbats for events and circumstances largely beyond her control. Today she got to shift the arc of history a little. Britain will be better off for it. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

voting for his crypto will definitely send him clear message of your concern

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Fiscal rules have always had less to do with debt sustainability or placating bond markets than with demonstrating "prudence" to political correspondents. Luckily, they're easily fooled.

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Great news fellas www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

"Artificial intelligence advances by inventing games and gloating to goad others to play" this is a very good insight about labor supply and innovation, not just in AI

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

in which, I *very* slightly revise my views on transport-led development backofmind.substack.com/p/traffic-ja...

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Good. The use of hotels was a) designed to immiserate the people in them to avoid a 'pull factor' (didn't work) and b) has been very bad for the towns in them. Now need to end the ban on people working while they claim asylum.

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vigilantes

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