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Does Giving Money for Housing Work?

Governments around the world have tried it: giving people cash to make housing more affordable. But does it actually work? We dive into one of the most misunderstood dynamics in housing economics — and reveal the single factor that determines…
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BS Machines Broken By BS

You can trick AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini into teaching you how to make a bomb or hack an ATM if you make the question complicated, full of academic jargon, and cite sources that do not exist. Aedrian Salazar…
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Radio

Like Daughter of Swords, Sylvan Esso is a group that I learned about by way of an article about Psychic Hotline. I bought their album What Now, and Radio is my favorite song from it. Sylvan Esso – Radio (Music…
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JD Vance, Nationalism, and the GOP Megabill

Part of the American creed is that we don’t care where anyone’s ancestors are buried. Vance’s debased version of patriotism says that we’re just a tribe like any other: insular, fearful and hateful, believing in nothing more morally ambitious. It’s…
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Why They Hate Education

In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance, and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind. Robert Reich Why They Hate Education (Robert Reich)
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The AI Con

Never underestimate the power of saying no. Just as AI hypers say that the technology is inevitable and you need to just shut up and deal with it, you, the reader, can just as well say “absolutely not” and refuse…
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Does Giving Money for Housing Work?

BS Machines Broken By BS

Radio

JD Vance, Nationalism, and the GOP Megabill

Why They Hate Education

The AI Con

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