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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Listen: https://ift.tt/X0EoY8M Mad Libs. This piece is not about how mad liberals are at the administration, although the latest polling data indicates that it could be. Instead, it’s a fill-in-the-blank exercise regarding the impact of tariffs and immigration policy on… more ›
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Metalabel is a growing universe of knowledge, resources, and spaces for metalabels and other cultural collectives. https://releases.metalabel.xyz/r01/introducing-metalabel?ref=blog.metalabel.com more ›
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Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further. more ›
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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/magazine/buy-now-pay-later-klarna-affirm-shopping.html more ›
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Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/andrew-ross-sorkin-lesson-1929/684546/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/F7wOeSp In the second episode of our two-part miniseries on the future of entertainment, Derek goes from Hollywood to NYC to understand why Broadway musicals are in trouble. "With the cost of staging song-and-dance spectacles skyrocketing and audiences drawn… more ›
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Iggy Pop explains the role David Bowie played in his emergence as a solo artist in this 1990 interview with MTV. Subscribe to MTV News: https://goo.gl/cXCwIK More from MTV News: Official MTV News Website: https://ift.tt/EDgN3KP Like MTV News: https://ift.tt/OPH9pxR Follow… more ›
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In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them – power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/ai-now-2025-landscape-report more ›
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In order to understand the profound transformations, and boundless potential, unleashed by artificial intelligence, we need to expand our own intellectual horizons into the realms of history, the natural world, and even ancient mythology. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/making-sense-of-the-ai-revolution/ more ›