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a Cyberpunk Primer

Many of the unjust authorities in our present age (and past ages) originate from the interests of…

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ATTAC{less} / a privacy Manifesto

McAfee’s statement, “We live in a system of permission,” encapsulates the current reality: Privacy is not ours by default, it’s granted or revoked by external powers.

#abradeux#pingpong#e2ee#privacy#decentralized#encryption#network#ping#p2p
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New Year's Resolutions

Before the beginning of the new year, the idea of setting important goals, changing yourself and their lives for the better comes to people's mind more often than usual.

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The Battle of Bretton Woods

80 years ago, the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed, establishing a global monetary and financial system.

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The All State Banker

How Amadeo Giannini created the Bank of America

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Information sources and inflation expectations

Both consumers and business representatives systematically overestimate the level of inflation this phenomenon is typical for economies around the world.

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Space Economy

Economists should turn their attention to the stars

#him#himulation#spacex#space#mars#economy#frontier#abradeux#elon#humanity#starship#spaceforspace
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"The Pygmalion Effect": How self-fulfilling prophecies work

Expectations that events will develop in a certain way can make people act in such a way that expectations are realized even if they were initially wrong.

#himulation#pygmalion#behavioral#economics#prophecies#him#himcast#abradeux#socioeconomic
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The ?/acc Playbook

Tech isn’t a relaxant. It’s an accelerant. Automation technologies, whether they take the form of AI, digital payments or Uber, primarily make our lives faster, rather than easier, but we’re flooded with stories that present this acceleration as unstoppable progress. To survive this we need to start studying the tech accelerationist playbook, the stories and background mental models used by mainstream progress junkies to sell their techno-utopian visions. In this piece, I’ll show you four cor...

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Blockchain as coercion to impartiality

Despite its young (adolescent by human standards) age, blockchain is now very popular. News about it appears in the media daily, theses are defended, monographs and dozens of specialized journals with hundreds of scientific articles are published, apocryphal stories of blockchain circulate on social networks in the epic spirit of Homer and the Prophetic Boyan - "The Saga of Public Keys", "The Legend of Bitcoins, Economic Left and Cyberpunks of the XXI Century", etc. In short, a picture of the...

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