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It could be a collective defense mechanism. The idea of animal intelligence being a threat to what many people perceive as the necessary status quo of being able to endlessly consu…

This is engineering. Not art. We learn from our failures and build better than before.

And not a single director goes to jail. Not even for a weekend.

In the wake of an unprecedented attack on the core institutions of a democracy; forums and websites that were being used to plot violence against lawmakers are discovering that all…

There is also the viewpoint that bitcoin was a crime from beginning to end. That the goals of it's creation were to provide an unpreventable vector for money laundering. That it's …

You seem to think that teams of economists don't cherry pick metrics that suit their perspective.

Is it the phone people are addicted to, or the media available through it? Especially Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Twitter. All of which seem designed to cultivate obsessive c…

So if you are wondering why Clearview is so bad specifically for black people; it might help to know that the company has extensive ties to Right-wing white supremacists. And that …

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relati…

Construction companies seem to do fine even though building codes exist. It's not uncommon for a mature industry to face a reckoning around damaging practices that were common when…

This is an idea that should be explored more fully. The downside is that it will make information technology a much less freewheeling and innovative field.

Police work a _lot_ of overtime in most jurisdictions. So the base salary may be misleadingly low. Especially since many police contracts have a 2x or even 3x payout for overtime u…

For such a high value target why aren't they using MFA built in to the hardware? They're a networking company but they apparently build stuff like it's still 1996.

Remember that these individuals are usually hired and given responsibility based on their ability to game class signalling games; they exist to justify the status quo. If the statu…

I wonder how long until we see the first lawsuits for stock price manipulation using this feedback loop? If an unscrupulous executive were to make factually true statements that we…

Imagine if an automobile manufacturer allowed you to configure the safety features of your car and had the defaults set to unsafe but convenient values to help sell vehicles... do …

This is all the result of confusing 1st amendment rights with the right to access the audience that gathers at a particular URL. What Taibbi is asking for is that the guy who tells…

Let's just say that it is a strong tell that one's ethics may not be defensible if your ethics watchdog is threatening to resign. Consider for instance the exit of Walter Shaub fro…

Well, of course billionaires don't directly exploit people. They just build systems and take advantage of large scale features of the social environment that exploit people. It's a…

When you can't help yourself from firing ethicists; you might have an ethics problem.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -- J.M. Keynes Also applies to competitors of Venture funded vortexes like Uber/Lyft/Doordash. Sure, in the l…

With this release Tesla has become a very attractive platform for assassins; if your target drives a Tesla it can be subverted and their death will look like an accident.

Your ideological sophistication is questionable. If you've ever spent time in left discourse you'd know that leftists argue about everything. And it's not just leftists who hate fa…

So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise? And how does this protocol help reach them.

So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise? What does the protocol do to hold orgs accountable?