Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout(prospect.org)

11 points by hn_acker 1 month ago | 3 comments

Sergey Brin Funds Misleading Ballot Measure to Negate Wealth Tax(prospect.org)

10 points by dlipovetsky 7 months ago | 0 comments

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists(prospect.org)

181 points by dn2k 1 month ago | 75 comments

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us(prospect.org)

85 points by semiquaver 1 year ago | 58 comments

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?(prospect.org)

141 points by ragall 26 days ago | 92 comments

An American Prospect opinion piece by David Dayen arguing that OpenAI's models mimic their creators' behavior rather than 'going rogue,' and questioning Sam Altman's accountability.

Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers(prospect.org)

298 points by leotravis10 1 year ago | 157 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)

474 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 717 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)

395 points by 7777777phil 5 months ago | 210 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin essay on how Disney mismanaged and ultimately erased FiveThirtyEight's archive over ten years.

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools(theorthagonist.substack.com)

489 points by ZeroTalent 1 year ago | 228 comments

A Substack essay from The Orthagonist arguing that popular business books are cheap entertainment built on simplified stories rather than useful strategic tools.

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy(theatlantic.com)

359 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 401 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Rogé Karma arguing private equity now controls about one-fifth of the U.S. market, largely invisible to investors, media, and regulators.