Needless to say, I'll be watching this quite closely!

Hasbro, who owns the rights to Monopoly, has gone to great lengths to conceal that it was invented in 1903 by a leftist Georgist named Elizabeth Magie, out of her frustration with the grotesque income inequality of her time.

Magie originally called it 'The Landlord Game.'

Some people are reluctant to make the person in the aisle seat get up to let them out — not me. I do so boldly and without mercy. Your half-muted exasperated sighs as you stand up only make me stronger

Brian Merchant it's an entirely new kind of computer and operating system, and you're right, it's not perfect - no gen1 v1 is. we care about pushing things forward and continuing to listen to feedback and iterating. the question is do you believe in and care about the vision and whether you're…

🚨One of my fav papers got accepted
Chrome is the most used browser and gateway to the web—but how does it make money? Is it neutral? Studying 100s of technical+legal docs, we argue that Google uses it systematically to reinforce its market #power .

ssrn.com/abstract=47807…

I am very much looking forward to heading to Providence tomorrow for this — if you're around come on through

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Once again, the worry is not that AI will write better or more interestingly than you, Stephen King, it's that it will be used to degrade the economic conditions for writers in general — and those less successful than you won't be able to pay rent.

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Artist's rendering of the newly recalibrated final plans for NEOM city:

If it were up to *consumers* AI gen art would pose little threat to working artists at all—few shopping for art at home are going to pay for the stuff. It's employers & corporate clients who employ artists & freelancers and see a chance to cut costs that will degrade wages here

im gonna stare straight at that sun today