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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Current GOP Governor Kelly Armstrong admits the Bank of North Dakota could never be built today, then adds "yet we like having it." A century of proof sits inside that sentence. Who gets permission to build the next one? #BankingReform #Infrastructure #PublicOption
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America's reddest state runs a socialist bank
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own bank since 1919, 3 facts that are supposed to cancel each other out and stubbornly refuse to, because the Bank
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
People feel taxes they can see & ignore ones they can't. Income tax hits your pay stub, but sales tax on groceries, property tax, car costs add up to more than Minneapolis. The con works because the math stays hidden. #CognitiveError #TaxPerception #BehavioralEconomics
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The Country That Doesn't Know Its Own Tax Rate
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like a confession of common
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Bank of North Dakota grew business lending 35% between 2007-2009, expanding credit in the exact months every private lender sprinted for the exits. A shock absorber that lends hardest when the weather turns worst. #FinancialCrisis #CommunityLending #CounterCyclical
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America's reddest state runs a socialist bank
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own bank since 1919, 3 facts that are supposed to cancel each other out and stubbornly refuse to, because the Bank
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
North Dakota came first of all 50 states in PPP dollars per worker during the pandemic, 1,444 loans per 100k people vs Arizona's 265, same week, same federal cash. The difference: owning a bank built to answer the phone. #SmallBusiness #PPP #BankingCrisis
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America's reddest state runs a socialist bank
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own bank since 1919, 3 facts that are supposed to cancel each other out and stubbornly refuse to, because the Bank
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Memphis has the highest violent crime rate of any major US city at 2,501 per 100,000. Minnesota's state average is 257. You save on income tax & pay with your safety, because broke governments can't fund police or courts. #CrimeStats #Governance #UrbanPolicy
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The Country That Doesn't Know Its Own Tax Rate
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like a confession of common
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ukraine learned that affection evaporates first, so it started building with structural architecture. The alliances that survive are the ones where leaving costs you something you can't replace. Is this the blueprint for every country NATO's door stays closed to? #Geopolitics #Alliance #Blueprint
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Ukraine just made itself impossible to abandon
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
America's most conservative state has run its own bank since 1919, turned a profit every single year for 107 years, and never defaulted once, which leaves the most reliable bank in the country owned by the people who hate government most. #PublicBanking #NorthDakota #Politics
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America's reddest state runs a socialist bank
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own bank since 1919, 3 facts that are supposed to cancel each other out and stubbornly refuse to, because the Bank
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A baby born in Memphis lives to 72. A baby born in Minneapolis lives to 79. That's 7 years stolen at birth by the county line, as if crossing into Tennessee meant crossing into a war zone. #PublicHealth #LifeExpectancy #SouthernStates #HealthPolicy #DataDriven
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The Country That Doesn't Know Its Own Tax Rate
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like a confession of common
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
McKinsey diagnosed AI governance failures then invested in OpenAI's Deployment Company 7 days later. The disease wrote its own prescription and sent the bill to the patient. #ConflictOfInterest #McKinsey #ConsultingScam #OpenAI
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94% will keep spending on AI even when it fails
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A family earning $12,600 in Memphis pays 12.8% of income in state & local taxes while a family earning $19,000 in Minneapolis pays 6.2%, because Tennessee's 'no income tax' promise is a shell game where the poor cover what the rich dodge. #TaxPolicy #Economics #DataAnalysis
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The Country That Doesn't Know Its Own Tax Rate
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like a confession of common
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A Ukrainian officer was stunned that Gulf states had been lobbing 8 Patriot interceptors at a single drone - $4M a shot against a $70K target. Ukraine gets 700K tons of diesel monthly for teaching them how to swat flies without burning down the house. #DefenseContracts #Gulf #Efficiency
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Ukraine just made itself impossible to abandon
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Google guided $75B in 2026 CapEx, Meta $125-145B, Microsoft $31.9B per quarter while margins compress. Amazon's free cash flow dropped from $14.8B to $1.2B. When do we admit this wealth transfer might be permanent? #AICapEx #CloudSpending #TechInfrastructure
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The AI Layoff Receipts
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ukraine walked around the back of NATO's building & started bolting its own furniture to the floor: drone factories in Bavaria, combat drone production in Suffolk, rocket fuel in Jutland, 201 specialists embedded in Gulf air defenses. #NATO #EuropeDefense #Strategy #UkraineDiplomacy
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Ukraine just made itself impossible to abandon
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The 401(k) tax exclusion sends 60% of its benefits to the top 10% of earners. A retirement subsidy designed to help ordinary workers has been quietly repurposed into a tax shelter for people who were going to be fine anyway. #TaxShelters #RetirementPolicy #PolicyCapture
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Only 2% of executives attributed job cuts to actual AI deployment. 60% made cuts anticipating efficiencies that never arrived. They gutted the kitchen because someone saw a cooking show. #LayoffNation #AIhype #WorkersFirst
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94% will keep spending on AI even when it fails
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on Saudi soil because $1.3B in US hardware got gutted by drones that cost less than a used Honda Civic, the kind Ukraine has been swatting from its sky for 3 years. #Ukraine #Defense #Drones #MilTech #Security
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Ukraine just made itself impossible to abandon
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
95% of enterprise AI projects fail when jumping from pilot to production, yet 94% of organizations will expand AI investments even if current initiatives fail. The ratchet only turns one direction. #AIFail #Enterprise #CapitalAllocation #TechBubble
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94% will keep spending on AI even when it fails
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Five9's CEO said it plainest: 'AI is replacing humans over time, and those dollars are going back into the software.' The payroll savings flow upward into Amazon, Microsoft, Google income statements while the workers who generated the savings are gone. #AIEconomics #TechConcentration #PayrollShift
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The AI Layoff Receipts
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
83% of S&P 500 boards identified AI as a material risk, but only 2.7% of directors have any AI expertise. That's like having gas leak detectors screaming while you reach for a match instead of calling an expert. #AI #Corporate #TechPolicy
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94% will keep spending on AI even when it fails
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
England privatized water in 1989, Scotland kept it public. Since then, English companies paid £78B in dividends while accumulating £64B in debt. Scotland charges less, leaks less, pollutes less, carries no debt. #Privatization #PublicOwnership #WaterCrisis
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The only question AI will settle is whether the democracy you live in thinks you're a citizen to be protected or a cost to be externalized. Which answer has your government already chosen? #Democracy #AIGovernance #CitizenRights
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The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up"
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Spotify's AI buzzword density rose 3,100% with a specificity score of zero, meaning 3,100% more AI talk with nothing attached to a dollar sign. CrowdStrike went from 1 AI mention to 102 in a single filing cycle. The marketing team discovered a new keyword. #AIBuzzwords #SECFilings #FinanceData
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The AI Layoff Receipts
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Only 23% of public cash transfers to working-age people went to households in the bottom fifth of income distribution, while 20% went to the top fifth. The welfare state is handing almost as many bags to the richest family as to the poorest. #WelfareState #Inequality #DataDriven
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AI is extending wage decoupling into white-collar work at earnings-call speed. The transfer that took a generation in manufacturing is happening to knowledge workers in a couple of fiscal years. Will this pattern finally break, or is it just floor 2 of the same building? #FutureOfWork #Wages #AI
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Boston councilors hosted Austin's delegation for planning hearings, walking tours, public panels. Adopted parking reform, the one item that changes nothing about what gets built. Why study solutions with graduate intensity then implement with retiree urgency? #Politics #Housing #Reform
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
155,000 people lost jobs for AI that doesn't work. We analyzed 32 companies that fired workers to fund AI transformation, cross-referenced 1,000 SEC filings against promises, found savings went to cloud vendors while margins got worse. #AILayoffs #TechWorkers #AIWashing
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The AI Layoff Receipts
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The US government spent $6.9 trillion last year and nothing works, emergency rooms have 6-hour waits, bridges are held together by engineering optimism, and the IRS is so defunded billionaires are less likely audited than single mothers. #Government #Politics #PublicSpending
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The EU proposed the AI Act in April 2021, before ChatGPT existed. They were writing rules for tech that hadn't yet detonated in public, because they learned writing them afterward doesn't work. #EuropeVsUS #AIAct #ProactiveRegulation
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The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up"
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
When Pew tracked Austin rents by building age, the decline was largest in Class C buildings, the oldest and cheapest apartments where families earning $63k actually live. New luxury buildings delivered cheaper rent to people who never set foot in them. #Housing #Filtering #Policy
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Meta cut 10% of workforce (8,000 people) while spending up to $135B on AI infrastructure. Wells Fargo reduced headcount for 23 consecutive quarters while posting record profits. The money rides one escalator up, people slide off the other. #BigTech #Banking #AI
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The FTC fined Facebook $5B in 2019, roughly 1 month's revenue, and the company's stock price rose on the news. A penalty you can pay out of petty cash isn't punishment, it's a licensing fee. #BigTech #Enforcement #Meta
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The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up"
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Greater Boston has thousands of triple-deckers that housed working families for generations. Every single one sits on a lot now too small to be legal under current zoning. The most successful housing form in the region's history is illegal to replicate. #Housing #Zoning #Boston
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
88% of executives said the weak job market makes it easier to reduce compensation without losing talent, a confession whispered behind closed doors in previous centuries but now said on the record with breezy confidence. #LaborMarket #WageStagnation #AIHype
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Companies found a story that lets them cut headcount at scale across every industry and get applauded instead of questioned: 60% made cuts anticipating AI efficiencies that haven't arrived, but only 2% attributed cuts to actual AI implementation. #AI #TechLayoffs #CorporateAmerica
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
American AI regulation is working exactly as designed, and what it's designed to do is protect the companies building AI, not the citizens living with its consequences. #AI #TechPolicy #Regulation
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The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up"
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Austin brought rents down 19% while Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and adopted the one reform that changes nothing. Two cities, same median income, opposite results. #Housing #TechPolicy #Boston
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Coercive leverage, once deployed, teaches the other party to build around it. The drone factory in Mildenhall won't close when the next president shows up making reassuring noises, because adaptations made under pressure stick around like scar tissue. #Geopolitics #NATO #Europe
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Ukraine Drone Industry: How It Broke America's Hold on Europe
America has long had a grip on Europe especially since the Ukraine war, but that grip is becoming weaker by the day and in large it's down to Ukraine.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Austin has been compounding housing reforms for 18 years like interest in a savings account, except the returns are measured in apartments. Boston studied the same solutions with graduate student intensity, then implemented them with retiree urgency. #HousingPolicy #Boston #Austin #Zoning #Reform
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
England privatized water in 1989, Scotland kept theirs public. Since then, English companies paid £78B in dividends while accumulating £64B in debt. Scotland charges less, leaks less, pollutes less, carries no debt. Test case complete. #Privatization #PublicOwnership #Infrastructure
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
88% of 125,000 executives said the weak job market makes it easier to reduce compensation without losing talent. That's the kind of confession that in a previous century might have been whispered behind a closed door. #AI #WageSupression #CEOSurvey #LaborMarket
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"Life begins at conception" wasn't Catholic doctrine until 1869, giving it shorter history than baseball. Augustine & Aquinas both held early abortion wasn't homicide, but Republicans treat a 155-year-old position as eternal truth. #Abortion #Christianity #Politics #History
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Christian Nationalism in the Republican Party: The American Taliban
This article disects what the Republican Party of America actually is - a fundamentalist party that has more in common with the Taliban than Christianity.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Labor is the most expensive thing a company buys, more expensive than the cloud infrastructure, more expensive than the office space, more expensive than the espresso machine nobody asked for but the CFO approved because morale was circling the drain. #AI #LaborEconomics #CorporateAmerica
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The board that fired Altman in November 2023 had exactly the mission-first composition everyone keeps asking for. They documented abuse, caught him lying, voted him out. Got reversed in 96 hours by 700 employees with equity. #OpenAI #TechGovernance #SamAltman
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OpenAI Governance Conflicts: The Structure That Doesn’t Exist
OpenAI built its brand on responsible governance. The internal record says otherwise. A web of 400 portfolio companies, a venture fund Sam owned without the board's knowledge, and a pattern of deals that keep landing in his favor.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and adopted the one reform that changes nothing. #Housing #Boston #Austin #Zoning #Policy
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Austin Housing Reform vs Boston: The Fix Nobody Wants to Copy
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The 401(k) tax exclusion sends 60% of its benefits to the top 10% of earners. A retirement subsidy designed to help workers save for old age has been repurposed into a tax shelter for people who were going to be fine anyway. #Retirement #TaxPolicy #Inequality
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Government Spending Inequality: The State Changed Clients, Not Size
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
For 450 years, arsenokoitai meant "boy molester." Luther translated it that way in 1534. Then in 1946, Biblica paid for a translation that changed it to "homosexual." From 100 anti-LGBTQ bills in 2020 to 850+ in 2025, all built on a purchased word. #LGBTQ #BibleTranslation #Politics
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The American Taliban
This article disects what the Republican Party of America actually is - a fundamentalist party that has more in common with the Taliban than Christianity.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
OpenAI's CEO personally owned the Startup Fund for 3 years without the board knowing, then that fund invested in companies OpenAI later bought for billions. It's Adam Neumann's trademark scam at silicon valley scale. #OpenAI #TechGovernance #SamAltman
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OpenAI Governance Conflicts: The Structure That Doesn’t Exist
OpenAI built its brand on responsible governance. The internal record says otherwise. A web of 400 portfolio companies, a venture fund Sam owned without the board's knowledge, and a pattern of deals that keep landing in his favor.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Altman stepped down from Oklo's board specifically to "avoid conflict of interest" while keeping his 4.8% stake so OpenAI could do deals with them. A referee taking off the jersey and collecting ticket sales from the stands. #OpenAI #ConflictOfInterest #TechPolicy
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OpenAI Governance Conflicts: The Structure That Doesn’t Exist
OpenAI built its brand on responsible governance. The internal record says otherwise. A web of 400 portfolio companies, a venture fund Sam owned without the board's knowledge, and a pattern of deals that keep landing in his favor.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
EU Trade Director Sabine Weyand: European leaders accepted Trump's golf course deal because refusing meant the US would walk away entirely. "The word for that arrangement is not alliance. The word for that is a protection racket with better catering." #Europe #Trump #NATO
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Ukraine Drone Industry: How It Broke America's Hold on Europe
America has long had a grip on Europe especially since the Ukraine war, but that grip is becoming weaker by the day and in large it's down to Ukraine.
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readuncut.bsky.social @readuncut.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Jack Dorsey cut 931 people in March 2025 ("not about AI"), then 4,000 more in February 2026 ("100 people + AI = 1,000 people"). Block's stock surged 25% on the second announcement. Same CEO, opposite stories, identical spreadsheet. #AI #TechLayoffs #BlockInc #AIWashing
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AI Layoffs and Wage Compression: The Bet Corporate America Made
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.
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