Articles by spking
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The Enshittifinancial Crisis (wheresyoured.at)

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Is the AI industry a bubble? Of course it is, but what kind? (betterthanrandom.substack.com)

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Is Vibe Coding Dying? (garymarcus.substack.com)

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How to Argue with an AI Booster (wheresyoured.at)

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[flagged] Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't (betterthanrandom.substack.com)

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Is the AI Mania a Psych-Ops? (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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AI Turns Us into Dummies (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Spreadsheets Die Hard (betterthanrandom.substack.com)

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SoftBank looks to bring $1T AI and robotics hub to Arizona (azbigmedia.com)

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Paradise Lost (m3melody.substack.com)

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How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Disney Has New Layoffs Across TV and Film Teams (adweek.com)

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Jeff Bezos' risky bet (2006) (nbcnews.com)

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Tell HN: Yesterday I found out I have skin cancer

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The "AI Revolution" May Take an Unexpected Turn into the "AI Coup" (charleshughsmith.substack.com)

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Google Kills the Checkout (51ai.substack.com)

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Designers are facing upskilling exhaustion (itsnicethat.com)

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The End of Human Product Management (uxforai.com)

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Hyperion: The Tallest Tree in the World (ourplnt.com)

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The Gospel of Change (texashighways.com)

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"Keep away from the bloody computer!": Helen Oxenbury on illustrating childhood (itsnicethat.com)

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The Winners and Losers in 21st Century America (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Digital Ghost Towns: When Big Companies Acquire, Shut Down, and Sit on Domains (snagged.com)

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Mechanize, Inc (mechanize.work)

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The origins of Patch's big AI newsletter experiment (niemanlab.org)

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Timezone Arbitrage (bigdeskenergy.com)

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Are you tariff-ied? We are (kmail-lists.com)

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Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores (strongtowns.org)

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Ai.com Is for Sale at $100M–Could This Be the Biggest Domain Deal? (snagged.com)

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Playdate (play.date)

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There's no speed limit (2009) (sive.rs)

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Make Something Wonderful (stevejobsarchive.com)

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Cloudflare Agents (cloudflare.com)

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Comet: A Browser for Agentic Search by Perplexity (perplexity.ai)

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Two AI agents on a phone call realize they're both AI and switch to ggwave (twitter.com/ggerganov)

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Are Designers Special? (substack.com)

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Almost Time for Tom to Close (paperblogging.com)

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Waste Management to Automate Thousands of Jobs (govtech.com)

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Vercel Fluid Compute (vercel.com)

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Rows: The spreadsheet where data comes to life (rows.com)

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What Is AI? Matteo Pasquinelli (032c.com)

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Is the world becoming uninsurable? (charleshughsmith.substack.com)

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Canoo Imposes 'Mandatory Unpaid Leave' on All Employees (jalopnik.com)

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Schienenzeppelin (labrujulaverde.com)

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Suzuki Omnichord (suzuki-music.co.jp)

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Fiction and Finance (bitsaboutmoney.com)

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The 30-Year Mortgage Was Bad. The 40-Year Mortgage Will Be Even Worse (strongtowns.org)

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U.S. Banks' unrealized losses on investment securities screener (fau.edu)

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The Social Recession Is Accelerating (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Software Is the New Hardware (thediff.co)

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Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud? (economistwritingeveryday.com)

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There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent, and That's a Systemic Risk (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Turn Off Your Camera (spencerfry.com)

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Apple Stake (wsj.com)

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Jitter: A free After Effects alternative (jitter.video)

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Relay computer compile, load and run (youtube.com)

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"Why don't you make a freestanding system?" (cmail20.com)

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Wells Fargo Says It Fired Workers Who Used 'Mouse Jigglers' to Fake Work (fa-mag.com)

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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program (bitsaboutmoney.com)

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How can Robinhood afford 3% cash back on its new credit card? (lex.substack.com)

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RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are (nationalpost.com)

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Partnerships vs. Solopreneurship and Partnership Do's and Don'ts (dannorris.me)

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OpenAI's success has put a target on its back (yahoo.com)

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There's No Bargains Left Anywhere (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Big Tech jobs have lost their glamour (bbc.com)

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Consumption of energy drinks by children and young people: a systematic review (sciencedirect.com)

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[flagged] The Psychology of Apple Packaging (readtrung.com)

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Steve Jobs Interview with David Sheff (davidsheff.com)

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How to design a house to last 1000 years (2021) (construction-physics.com)

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Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980) (folklore.org)

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Why it's almost always a good thing when staff quit (dannorris.me)

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What's the Source of the Astounding 50% Boost in Corporate Profits? (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Standby by Landing (hellolanding.com)

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Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today (2021) (theverge.com)

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Fear Is a Framing Problem (moretothat.com)

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Americans over 70 Hold More Than 30% of the Country's Wealth (yahoo.com)

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Alaska Airlines to Acquire Hawaiian Airlines (alaskaair.com)

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One Man's Nearly Impossible Quest to Make a Toaster from Scratch (2011) (gizmodo.com)

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Tight global rice supply to persist into next year (inquirer.net)

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Poor Charlie's Almanack (stripe.press)

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The Allergy to Uncertainty (moretothat.com)

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Lilium Receives EASA Design Organization Approval (lilium.com)

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Sacking, revolt, return: how crisis at OpenAI over Sam Altman unfolded (theguardian.com)

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OpenAI: Corporate Giants, Religious Fanatics, and Chaos in the Heart of Tech (piratewires.com)

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The Meaning of Life Is Absurd (moretothat.com)

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OpenAI's FUBAR Corporate Governance is a lesson for every Company (morningporridge.com)

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Plastic Recycling Doesn't Work and Will Never Work (2022) (theatlantic.com)

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A New Kind of Movie (2021) (waltsfolly.com)

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How Jef Raskin started the Macintosh project (2012) (mac-history.net)

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Monsanto Ordered to Pay $1.5B in Roundup Case (bloomberg.com)

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A Pulse of the Earth (sciencedirect.com)

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Apple’s first online store played a crucial role in the company’s resurgence (appleinsider.com)

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Former Apple execs launch wearable AI Pin that uses ChatGPT (wsj.com)

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Make Yourself Human Again (palladiummag.com)

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Convoy's shutdown exposes the desperate state of trucking (freightwaves.com)

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Death from Overfunding: An Obituary for Convoy (freightwaves.com)

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Apple GPT could be released with iOS 18 (macrumors.com)

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How big companies make decisions (threadreaderapp.com)

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Avrame: Energy-efficient kit homes that can be assembled on-site (avrame.com)