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AI a growing misery in tax authorities. Correspondence, disputes, appeals a mess. We've gone from a handful of well-known sovereign citizen cranks to universally empowering every taxpayer to dispute every assessment. Effort to formulate cohesive thought in an email used to dissuade most...
August 19, 2026 at 9:57 AM
AI a growing misery in tax authorities. Correspondence, disputes, appeals a mess. We've gone from a handful of well-known sovereign citizen cranks to universally empowering every taxpayer to dispute every assessment. Effort to formulate cohesive thought in an email used to dissuade most...
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Gifted communicator.
Notice how he says many individual things things twice: theoretical/formal, then practical examples/instances.
That's a technique I learned from Knuth (or learned his articulation of it). (next post...)
Notice how he says many individual things things twice: theoretical/formal, then practical examples/instances.
That's a technique I learned from Knuth (or learned his articulation of it). (next post...)
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
August 15, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Gifted communicator.
Notice how he says many individual things things twice: theoretical/formal, then practical examples/instances.
That's a technique I learned from Knuth (or learned his articulation of it). (next post...)
Notice how he says many individual things things twice: theoretical/formal, then practical examples/instances.
That's a technique I learned from Knuth (or learned his articulation of it). (next post...)
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Grocery margins are low is a frequently rehashed point to argue against Mamdani’s public grocery stores.
Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business.
Let me explain. 🧵
Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business.
Let me explain. 🧵
July 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Grocery margins are low is a frequently rehashed point to argue against Mamdani’s public grocery stores.
Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business.
Let me explain. 🧵
Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business.
Let me explain. 🧵
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this is really bad
“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
stephenfollows.com
July 24, 2026 at 12:42 AM
this is really bad
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People really need to use models more complex than a spreadsheet where GDP and debt growth have zero interaction with each other.
Meanwhile, the Venn Diagram of people who push these “debt doom loop” spreadsheets and the people who say “where’s your model?” to MMTers is a circle.
Meanwhile, the Venn Diagram of people who push these “debt doom loop” spreadsheets and the people who say “where’s your model?” to MMTers is a circle.
July 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
People really need to use models more complex than a spreadsheet where GDP and debt growth have zero interaction with each other.
Meanwhile, the Venn Diagram of people who push these “debt doom loop” spreadsheets and the people who say “where’s your model?” to MMTers is a circle.
Meanwhile, the Venn Diagram of people who push these “debt doom loop” spreadsheets and the people who say “where’s your model?” to MMTers is a circle.
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i’m not trying to comfort you lol i’m pointing out a straightforward fact of human experience which is: your life can only be improved so much by money. these guys passed that point decades ago. many of them were BORN past that point. money does not make their lives good it just makes them luxurious
June 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
i’m not trying to comfort you lol i’m pointing out a straightforward fact of human experience which is: your life can only be improved so much by money. these guys passed that point decades ago. many of them were BORN past that point. money does not make their lives good it just makes them luxurious
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Meanwhile in supposedly sovereignty-focused Canada, nothing.
April 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Meanwhile in supposedly sovereignty-focused Canada, nothing.
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Fair use, baby.
Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code source code, issuing copyright takedown requests to remove 8,000+ copies.
Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent
Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool’s features
www.wsj.com
April 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Fair use, baby.
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apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
www.404media.co
March 27, 2026 at 10:53 AM
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
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Banks are masters of bureaucracy.
The way the banks did it was basically sort of proactive stonewalling, you appoint some VP of blockchain initiatives to constantly turn out studies about how the current tools aren’t helpful to your business but you’re definitely on top of things in case something good does turn up, which it won’t.
December 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Banks are masters of bureaucracy.
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Ha ha, I am sure this will all work. There’s never been problems with large and sketchy money market instruments in the past.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ha ha, I am sure this will all work. There’s never been problems with large and sketchy money market instruments in the past.
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In system dynamics, stocks and flows create a system's behaviour, but they don’t operate in isolation.
They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In system dynamics, stocks and flows create a system's behaviour, but they don’t operate in isolation.
They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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They sit inside webs of interacting feedback loops.
Feedback is simply information about what’s happening in the system’s stocks, fed back to influence its flows.
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"there was a young man with a dream
of making methamphetamine
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of making methamphetamine
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"there was a young man with a dream
of making methamphetamine
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of making methamphetamine
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You'd think the field that studies money would have a solid grasp of how it works.
But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
You'd think the field that studies money would have a solid grasp of how it works.
But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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But mainstream economics still teaches that banks are intermediaries, loans come from savings, and governments can run out of money.
None of that sh#t holds up.
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I am increasingly of the opinion that advancing computing technology beyond the 80386 was a mistake that society has paid dearly for.
lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children
"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am increasingly of the opinion that advancing computing technology beyond the 80386 was a mistake that society has paid dearly for.
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
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Republican free marketeers strike again.
Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
China has driven foreign competitors out of business over the past two decades by using its market dominance to slash prices, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
cnb.cx
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Republican free marketeers strike again.
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That the education sector is being treated as a market for genAI and not as the very thing that makes it work tells you everything you need to know about what’s driving this particular economic bubble.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
That the education sector is being treated as a market for genAI and not as the very thing that makes it work tells you everything you need to know about what’s driving this particular economic bubble.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
Anyway, we’ll see if Evan Solomon’s AI task force addresses these issues. I’m not hopeful.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reminder to fill out this CRA survey and say YES to automatic tax filing cra-arc-survey-sondage.ca/f/s.aspx?s=d...
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was out for beers the other day and was trying to describe doing a vendor inventory and interlocutor said "oh if i wanted to do that i'd just point chatgpt at my work email and tell it to pull all the invoices"
ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.
also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
was out for beers the other day and was trying to describe doing a vendor inventory and interlocutor said "oh if i wanted to do that i'd just point chatgpt at my work email and tell it to pull all the invoices"
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Free-market reformer needs a bailout.
Breaking news: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said 'all options' are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility on.ft.com/3W5D9W4
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Free-market reformer needs a bailout.
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Argentina: the country where every economic theory goes to die.
The problem with libertarianism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money
September 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Argentina: the country where every economic theory goes to die.
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stafford beer warned us monoskop.org/images/e/e3/...
September 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
stafford beer warned us monoskop.org/images/e/e3/...
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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.