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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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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 9 hours ago • 134 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 9 hours 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 10 hours ago • 6 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 10 hours 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 10 hours ago • 5 comments

submitted 14 hours 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 18 hours 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 17 hours ago • 19 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 17 hours 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 17 hours 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 18 hours 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 1 day ago • 19 comments

A requirement to be honest and have principles is not a purity test. If someone is prepared to take a job as a lobbyist for crypto, there is absolutely nothing you could trust them not to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Absolutely irresponsible of Labour to risk everything in this unwinnable seat

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

As @dsquareddigest.bsky.social notes, desperate times call for desperate measures. www.ft.com/content/74f7...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment