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Shocking how quickly people pivoted from "copyright is over-enforced and the RIAA is bad" to "copyright is under-enforced and genAI is bad."
Hard policy questions here about how to reward artistic creation, but the pivot from "remix culture" to "wait, not like that" is fast enough to give whiplash.
Hard policy questions here about how to reward artistic creation, but the pivot from "remix culture" to "wait, not like that" is fast enough to give whiplash.
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Shocking how quickly people pivoted from "copyright is over-enforced and the RIAA is bad" to "copyright is under-enforced and genAI is bad."
Hard policy questions here about how to reward artistic creation, but the pivot from "remix culture" to "wait, not like that" is fast enough to give whiplash.
Hard policy questions here about how to reward artistic creation, but the pivot from "remix culture" to "wait, not like that" is fast enough to give whiplash.
I truly do not understand Strategy. I think at this point they just assume that $1 of book value is worth more than $1 to shareholders.
Which, admittedly, is how it did work for them for a few years.
Which, admittedly, is how it did work for them for a few years.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I truly do not understand Strategy. I think at this point they just assume that $1 of book value is worth more than $1 to shareholders.
Which, admittedly, is how it did work for them for a few years.
Which, admittedly, is how it did work for them for a few years.
Are you fucking joking, Julie?
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Are you fucking joking, Julie?
I can’t think of anything that would inspire me less, if I had the misfortune of working at Accenture.
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I can’t think of anything that would inspire me less, if I had the misfortune of working at Accenture.
If he really believes this, he should disband the President’s Council on Fitness and introduce a new Council on Sitting Around, right?
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If he really believes this, he should disband the President’s Council on Fitness and introduce a new Council on Sitting Around, right?
Fun fact: the Times’ editorial policy is that a politician’s age can only be questioned at 79 *and one half* years (81.5 for women), which is why they didn’t focus on this topic at all before the election.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Fun fact: the Times’ editorial policy is that a politician’s age can only be questioned at 79 *and one half* years (81.5 for women), which is why they didn’t focus on this topic at all before the election.
Pretty sure I’m hallucinating.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Pretty sure I’m hallucinating.
They think Americans are so stupid.
November 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
They think Americans are so stupid.
Do we know why Trump's toy plane is on the table in front of him?
Is it like a security blanket kinda thing? He just likes having his model plane with him when meeting with the press?
Is it like a security blanket kinda thing? He just likes having his model plane with him when meeting with the press?
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do we know why Trump's toy plane is on the table in front of him?
Is it like a security blanket kinda thing? He just likes having his model plane with him when meeting with the press?
Is it like a security blanket kinda thing? He just likes having his model plane with him when meeting with the press?
Will you look at these morons? I sold my tech stocks last year.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Will you look at these morons? I sold my tech stocks last year.
Charts here help illustrate: www.reuters.com/markets/big-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Charts here help illustrate: www.reuters.com/markets/big-...
“Trump”, “Saudi”, and “Blockchain”, all in the same headline, so you *know* it’s definitely not corrupt.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“Trump”, “Saudi”, and “Blockchain”, all in the same headline, so you *know* it’s definitely not corrupt.
A point I have been making is that, with industry leading false match rates of 1/100,000, if you make a database of 1m undocumented residents, any random person on the street will match on average 10 people!
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recognition
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recognition
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A point I have been making is that, with industry leading false match rates of 1/100,000, if you make a database of 1m undocumented residents, any random person on the street will match on average 10 people!
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recognition
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recognition
I know everyone says Trump is cooked and I sorta think he is, too, but...
...kinda strange that his approval rating exceeds Obama and Bush's second-term approval at this point in time.
...kinda strange that his approval rating exceeds Obama and Bush's second-term approval at this point in time.
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I know everyone says Trump is cooked and I sorta think he is, too, but...
...kinda strange that his approval rating exceeds Obama and Bush's second-term approval at this point in time.
...kinda strange that his approval rating exceeds Obama and Bush's second-term approval at this point in time.
Is there something about being a tech CEO that makes you completely misunderstand dystopian social criticism?
Like, I’m just waiting for some Theil Fellow to propose a reality TV show where criminals have to run away from hunters and, if the man who’s running escapes, he gets to go free.
Like, I’m just waiting for some Theil Fellow to propose a reality TV show where criminals have to run away from hunters and, if the man who’s running escapes, he gets to go free.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Is there something about being a tech CEO that makes you completely misunderstand dystopian social criticism?
Like, I’m just waiting for some Theil Fellow to propose a reality TV show where criminals have to run away from hunters and, if the man who’s running escapes, he gets to go free.
Like, I’m just waiting for some Theil Fellow to propose a reality TV show where criminals have to run away from hunters and, if the man who’s running escapes, he gets to go free.
I love this Jill Lepore comment.
I had a CS professor whom I remember being disappointed at how so many of his students were just notching a STEM degree so they could go work as a quant on Wall Street and make money. “Certifying rich kids to go get rich”, he said, or something like that.
I had a CS professor whom I remember being disappointed at how so many of his students were just notching a STEM degree so they could go work as a quant on Wall Street and make money. “Certifying rich kids to go get rich”, he said, or something like that.
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I love this Jill Lepore comment.
I had a CS professor whom I remember being disappointed at how so many of his students were just notching a STEM degree so they could go work as a quant on Wall Street and make money. “Certifying rich kids to go get rich”, he said, or something like that.
I had a CS professor whom I remember being disappointed at how so many of his students were just notching a STEM degree so they could go work as a quant on Wall Street and make money. “Certifying rich kids to go get rich”, he said, or something like that.
Can't help but think of this: www.youtube.com/shorts/jgerV...
I think it should give us at least a little pause when directors start talking about how AI affects sportswear or soda manufacturing.
I think it should give us at least a little pause when directors start talking about how AI affects sportswear or soda manufacturing.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Can't help but think of this: www.youtube.com/shorts/jgerV...
I think it should give us at least a little pause when directors start talking about how AI affects sportswear or soda manufacturing.
I think it should give us at least a little pause when directors start talking about how AI affects sportswear or soda manufacturing.
https://on.ft.com/3LyMp3m
I think that’s right. People hoping, on some level, for a crash should be careful what they wish for.
I think that’s right. People hoping, on some level, for a crash should be careful what they wish for.
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
https://on.ft.com/3LyMp3m
I think that’s right. People hoping, on some level, for a crash should be careful what they wish for.
I think that’s right. People hoping, on some level, for a crash should be careful what they wish for.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
There's a joke in here about Kash Patel and his hostility to the Five Eyes, but I can't figure out what it is.
There's a joke in here about Kash Patel and his hostility to the Five Eyes, but I can't figure out what it is.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
There's a joke in here about Kash Patel and his hostility to the Five Eyes, but I can't figure out what it is.
There's a joke in here about Kash Patel and his hostility to the Five Eyes, but I can't figure out what it is.
It's sort of amazing that, in the US, in order to pay your taxes online, you have to sign up to receive spam emails from some tech bro's MBA student project.
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's sort of amazing that, in the US, in order to pay your taxes online, you have to sign up to receive spam emails from some tech bro's MBA student project.
And cellphones. Don’t forget how much the poor waste on cellphones!
![Mattei's early-twentieth-century economists argued that this economic
order was the only one that could be successful because its social
hierarchies resulted not from the decisions of men in conference rooms
but from natural selection. "It seems obvious,'
" said Maffeo Pantaleoni,
the main engineer of fascist austerity,
that the classes with lower incomes are significantly deficient in
qualities with respect to others. So that this deficiency [deficienza]
is the cause of the lower income and not the lower income the cause
of the deficiency.
The lower classes, he claimed, made their scarce self-control clear in
excessive spending on alcohol, "sweets, chocolate, and biscuits," and
various other "pleasures." Mattei observes that across Britain and fascist
Italy, economists agreed that business owners were, as Pantaleoni put it,
"men of talent and personality whom selection makes into
entrepreneurs."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bdsbznksrsucwkka737uq26u/bafkreihsoajn2tea2ssnqbybqtph3pmwasxbjknnhodcqwlko4gwzrgsci@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
And cellphones. Don’t forget how much the poor waste on cellphones!
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/too-close-for-comfort-thinking-like-an-economist
Seems relevant when economically irrational policies are being pushed (tariffs, cutting SNAP and healthcare subsidies). Cui bono?
Seems relevant when economically irrational policies are being pushed (tariffs, cutting SNAP and healthcare subsidies). Cui bono?
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/too-close-for-comfort-thinking-like-an-economist
Seems relevant when economically irrational policies are being pushed (tariffs, cutting SNAP and healthcare subsidies). Cui bono?
Seems relevant when economically irrational policies are being pushed (tariffs, cutting SNAP and healthcare subsidies). Cui bono?