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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 3h

Merkins have a long and (I assume) storied history

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 1d

"using personal data to set prices might, under the right rules, redistribute wealth and make goods more accessible to lower-income consumers" is such a funny way of conceding that our lives will absolutely be made worse if this ever takes off. because we all know the 'right rules' will never happen

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 2d

“Surveillance pricing” sounds dystopian, but could it actually make markets fairer?

A business professor argues that using personal data to set prices might, under the right rules, redistribute wealth and make goods more accessible to lower-income consumers.

In defense of ‘surveillance pricing’: Why personalized prices could be an unexpected force for equity

Fans of redistribution may find something good in the latest AI-powered development in pricing.

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 10h

I think it was because they were better at grass seed dispersal than the wind is

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 10h

Society has certainly long since moved past the need for business profs like the author

Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 10h

the great satan, etc

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 11h

The party of government, that won a generational landslide just over a year ago, is polling at just 15%.

Starmer will be remembered as one of the worst prime ministers in British history, and a willing midwife for the fascism to come.

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 12h

The Antisocial Empire and the Great Filter of Mass Media

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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giuspe @giuspe.bsky.social · 14h

trad. "you used to read books to acquire knowledge, but not anymore: please doubt everything you read here, because we did it with (Advanced) Slop Technologies"

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The "he's a spook" sayer @bangintocake.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously the welfare state's been cut loads before and the markets have remained jittery HOWEVER if you cut the welfare state this time the markets will become unjittery pinky promise xoxoxoxo

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot run a society if it is in any way important what people like this think.

If your society depends on them liking what you're doing, it's already fucked. Rip it up, chuck these people in prison, take their stuff, organise something else.

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 16h

If you could ruin a few people's lives for us, that would really make us feel better, like we could trust you, you know?

Moyeen Islam, a fixed income strategist at the bank, said: “Welfare is totemic. It’s totemic for the market because it shows a willingness to do hard things and burn a little bit of political capital … If you can’t do this with a 150 MP majority, or whatever it is, then when will you do this?

“There would be an appreciation that she is willing to take hard choices. That to me is credibility bolstering or enhancing.”

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1d

West Africa’s nations are besieged in a tramadol-driven opioid crisis. Industrially produced pain pills are flooding the streets and the drugs all come from the same place, India 🇮🇳

youtu.be/J8EDNKuXGsI?...

Inside West Africa's opioid crisis - Global Eye, BBC World Service

YouTube video by BBC World Service

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, the pill mill guy is just the model of the 90's movie buisness-villain isn't he.

(tho the BBC working with vigilantes does feel questionably ethical)

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 17h

yeah just the second colour on each surface (three I guess on the shirt since it has fold-lines as well) adds so much depth vs the flat colour style

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

The whole point of doing this is to show their fellow crackpots around the world: you don’t have to tolerate annoying people who oppose your fascism any more. You can jail them, beat them, degrade them. It’s fun! You should give it a go, you’ll enjoy it and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop you.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most important cubes you gotta rotate is that the ruling class have lost that faith a while ago, they don't even believe in democracy in principle.

All they want is more discipline because the ruling class think we are failing them

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 18h

Frankly its pretty funny that it turns out the US's endlessly venerated constitution is as fake, if not more so, than the UK's famously not-real one

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 18h

CCM streams growing at lower rate than average Spotify track

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Drew Shields (commissions open) @gnarlyghost.bsky.social · 1d

Demonland

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 1d

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Zack, but the facts that you got from medical professionals are no match for a gobshite guest with opinions from right-wing newspapers and a slimy host with an anecdote about his daughter getting a tattoo.

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 1d

Journalists very susceptible to love bombing

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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