This is thoughtful and interesting; reminds me of Cory Doctorow in his more analytical, less-furious moments:

https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/low-trust-society-cost

#trust #economics #society #enshittification #regulation #grift

Modeling Cycles of Grift with Evolutionary Game Theory

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/

#HackerNews #Modeling #Cycles #of #Grift #with #Evolutionary #Game #Theory #Grift #Theory #GameTheory #EvolutionaryModels #HackerNews

WTF? I realise I'm left of center and strongly anti-Trump but I can see no justification for this other than ass-kissing and grift.
Has my bubble missed something significant about Melania?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/melania-trump-un-security-council

#USPol
#Grift

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116137351581751553

“Yet, until now, the United States never installed an outspoken vaccine critic like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a top health official with the power to upend federal childhood vaccine recommendations. Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and other top officials in the Trump administration have waged an ‘unprecedented attack on the nation’s evidence-based childhood immunization schedule,’ a lawsuit, filed by 15 states, charged on Tuesday.”

#RFKjr #antivaxxers #grift

Indeed :)

"The level of uncertainty about AI’s economic effects is so high—and the quality and supply of real-world, real-time information about its economic effects so paltry—that even serious conversations about AI from otherwise analytical people often veer toward the genre of fiction rather than the category of empirical analysis. AI land is so full of science fiction precisely because the space is so bereft of official high-quality data."

And, I'm willing to bet, that lack of #data is _intentional. Grifts thrive in a vacuum!

#AI #GenAI #grift #tech #ethics #extraction #deathspiral #economics

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/nobody-knows-anything

Don't listen to person from Fast & Furious 4: Tokyo grift!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1D8GtV7UfZ/

#food #health #grift #supplements #science

I smell Grift, wonder why? Or is this just a framework of a concept?

Gaza "Board of Peace" considering issuing a Stablecoin pegged to the US $.

Who will store the reserves, who would audit them, who would operate the blockchain, and where would it be located/hosted, what legal system would enforce payments - all open questions .

Is it realistic that Gazans would be able to access the system given there is next to no functioning Internet in Gaza? https://gizmodo.com/trumps-so-called-board-of-peace-wants-to-put-gaza-on-the-blockchain-2000725437 #Gaza #BoardofPeace #Internet #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #StableCoin #Grift #BlockChain #DigitalToken

Shameless #bribery; further evidence that #Trump and his horde believe they are untouchable. Why #grift in secret if you believe you cannot be stopped?

"In a document quietly filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday night, #MAGA Inc., the primary Super PAC supporting President Trump, revealed that it received a $5 million donation from #Crypto.com on January 23, 2026. The donation was made in the name of Crypto.com’s parent company, Foris Dax, Inc. 25 days later, on February 17, the Trump administration’s Commodities Futures Trading Commission (#CFTC), intervened on Crypto.com’s behalf in high-stakes lawsuit in federal court."
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Days after $5M donation, Trump administration backs Crypto.com in lawsuit - https://popular.info/p/days-after-5m-donation-trump-administration

#uspol #crypto #graft

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/116124271204641230

"But when others do to it us, it's a problem....."

Fuckers.

#Antropic #GenAI #AI #Technology #TechBros #Grift