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Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

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Show threadbsmall2Jan 19
> “Look, you fire nine out of 10 of your radiologists, saving $20m a year. You give us $10m a year... “And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop’. It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”
> This is a reverse centaur, and it is a specific kind of reverse centaur: it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.
#ReverseCentaur #DanDavies #AccountabilitySink
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 11
“But as #DanDavies writes there might not have been any particular trigger for the #Vibecession. ‘Vibes might be like a supercooled fluid, just waiting for a random shock to change phase.’ The #pandemic was the shock.” open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/e...

Everyone is Gambling and No On...
Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy

Vibes, AI, open-mouth coughing, and lessons from 40 weeks of travel

Kyla’s Newsletter
Steve Randy WaldmanNov 27
The best thing you’ll read about the great $140,000 poverty debate, and the fallaciousness of reasoning endemic to the kind of people who get off on calling out other people’s fallacies. by #DanDavies https://backofmind.substack.com/p/ways-of-vibing
ways of vibing

treatments and responses in the real world

Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"
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Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/

Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯May 24, 2025

New York Times op-ed on the new #stablecoin law (the "GENIUS Act") by Dan Davies, the author of probably the best book about financial fraud you'll ever read ("Lying For Money"), hits a lot of the right notes.

> "Stablecoins were supposed to leverage dollars to stabilize the chaotic universe of crypto. Instead, they seem set to infect the dollar-dominated financial system with the unique combined chaos of crypto and Mr. Trump."

* NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/trump-crypto-stablecoin.html
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/uiVIq

#crypto #uspol #uspolitics #USD1 #GeniusAct #Trump #DanDavies

Steve Randy WaldmanNov 12, 2024

On BlueSky, #DanDavies asked

"ok then if we have a vibrant and intelligent EconSky community riddle me this: what would the microfoundations be for 'voters dislike inflation much more than they dislike unemployment, even in a rising real wage environment with strong asset values'? what preferences would make that true?"

I posted the following thread in response. https://bsky.app/profile/dsquareddigest.bsky.social/post/3lar3zczumc27

Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social)

ok then if we have a vibrant and intelligent EconSky community riddle me this: what would the microfoundations be for "voters dislike inflation much more than they dislike unemployment, even in a rising real wage environment with strong asset values"? what preferences would make that true?

Bluesky Social
Steve Randy WaldmanSep 21, 2024
“we’ve taken on a model of argument in which data, regressions and modelling…are the standard of proof. And because of this, we’ve closed off all possible explanations…except those for which usable datasets can be found.” #DanDavies https://open.substack.com/pub/backofmind/p/me-versus-the-scatterplots
me versus the scatterplots

"voices from the beehive", part 1

Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"
Steve MitchellSep 10, 2024
For my next read I’m definitely moving out of my comfort zone! #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bibliophile #Bookworm #OperarionYewtree #InPlainSight #DanDavies
Show threadCory DoctorowJul 15, 2023

#WarrenBuffett pioneered the use of this term, and now it's all but mandatory for anyone launching a business or new product to explain where *their* moat will come from.

As #DanDavies writes, these "moats" aren't really moats in the Buffett sense. With Coke and Disney, he says, a "moat" was "the fact that nobody else could make such a great product that everyone wanted." In other words, "making a good product," is a great moat:

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/stuck-in-the-moat

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stuck in the moat

Warren Buffet's worst joke

Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"