Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Managers owe engineers time to understand AI code
A manager who demands faster AI output owes the people signing it time to understand it. That obligation should survive every improvement in the tools.
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Trump's Justice Department turned Ilhan Omar's investigation into an election spectacle
A raid three weeks before an election can punish a politician even if prosecutors never win a case. Trump's Justice Department has put Ilhan Omar in exactly that position. On October 12, Homeland…
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Keynes's shorter working week won't arrive by itself
A machine that finishes a job in half the time ought to leave room for somebody to go home. A definition of progress that counts only production has a different instruction: find more work to fill…
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Georgia Power sells AI savings before settling who pays
Georgia Power is selling households a $180 annual benefit from the AI power boom. The catch is in its August announcement: those projected savings begin in 2029. Meanwhile, its regulator has ordered…
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CMS canceled 760,000 people's health coverage without accounting for its mistakes
The Trump administration said it had confirmed the enrollments were unauthorized. Now insurers say some of those people should never have lost their health coverage.
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Banks financed the AI boom, then sold down the risk
Banks helped create the AI debt boom. By May, some were already asking other investors to take the riskiest pieces.
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Republicans scheduled the Medicaid paperwork trap for January
On January 1, Republicans will put a new condition between millions of low-income Americans and a doctor. Adults covered through Medicaid expansion will have to show that they worked, studied,…
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Trump's Labor Department froze green card filings and tightened employers' grip on immigrant workers
Trump's Labor Department accused eight technology companies of abusing the employment-based green card system, then froze every new and pending labor certification application involving them.…
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Trump reopened Putin's diesel trade to fix prices his own war drove up
Three weeks separated Trump's signature on a new Russia sanctions law from his decision to reopen the American market to Russian diesel. On September 18, Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham…
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A theory of freedom that ignores rent serves whoever collects it
The rent goes up. A utility sends a shut-off notice. Then a boss changes next week's schedule and expects workers to rearrange their lives. Each message carries the grammar of a command: comply or…