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economics Wall Street Journal ponders: did diversity cause the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank? Thom Dunn

Bank Error Federal regulators take control of tech darling Silicon Valley Bank Jason Weisberger

money Half of Americans are afraid for their money's safety in banks David Pescovitz

robin williams Robin Williams perfectly breaks down the upcoming financial crisis by mocking the 2008 financial crisis Devin Nealy

politics Beware the woke banks! Elías Villoro

george santos George Santos says his mother was in 9/11 fire, but records show she wasn't in the U.S. Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Elon Musk back on with Twitter while two of his funders back off Carla Sinclair

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

banking Why COBOL will never die Clive Thompson

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

politics Billionaire Beach Villain Vinod Khosla has a thought concerning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rob Beschizza

commodore The C64 Mini: a gaming blast from the past Jason Weisberger

trumpism Missouri's latest senator is part of a wave of (extremely selective) Republican enthusiasm for trustbusting Cory Doctorow

Business Palantir may IPO at valuation of up to $41 billion Xeni Jardin

science fiction Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

homelessness Duplicitous Catholic Bishop buys $2.3 million home with church funds after pleading for parishioners to help the homeless Séamus Bellamy

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