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Our Father, Who Art in AI
A quick note on something I found both amusing and revealing.
2 hrs ago
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Maria Alvarez
Landlord Economics: When You Are the New Oil
How can it be that even the big tech companies — which got where they are precisely by inventing extraordinary products — now want to be in the business…
May 12
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Maria Alvarez
The Great Replacement: Workers for Tokens
The substitution actually taking place in the economy has nothing to do with where people come from. What we are witnessing is a divorce between the…
May 5
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Maria Alvarez
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April 2026
[Wide Angle] The Truth of AI
The foundations, promises, and intuitions about the future of artificial intelligence.
Apr 28
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Maria Alvarez
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Amancio Ortega and the Mountain of Savings
What is happening to the world's richest man explains what is happening to the rest of us.
Apr 22
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Maria Alvarez
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Claude Code: The AI Bubble is Over
It's the moment of truth — time to prove whether there was any real economic value behind all of this.
Apr 21
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Maria Alvarez
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The End of Capitalism
Donald Trump, the AI bubble, and the housing crisis all have one thing in common. Or: why "abundance" isn't the answer we've been looking for — it's the…
Apr 6
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Maria Alvarez
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March 2026
Death Knells of a Dying Cycle: The Imminent Collapse of Trump and AI
Reality came knocking for the US president and the AI bubble in the very same week.
Mar 30
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Maria Alvarez
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Artichoke heart. A theory of free love
What if we allowed ourselves to love madly, without expecting anything in return? What if we were capable of loving with the same freedom with which we…
Mar 12
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Maria Alvarez
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Eating the rich, staying hungry
We investigate the concentration, growth, and nature of wealth to discover the causes of the unrest ravaging the world.
Mar 11
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Maria Alvarez
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Twitter is the new Facebook, and Substack is the new Twitter: Life after the ‘peak algorithm’
It's not the algorithm. What's ruining platforms is irrelevance.
Mar 10
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Maria Alvarez
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Trump and the broken windows coalition
If we are losing the battle against the far right, it is because we do not fully understand what it consists of.
Mar 10
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Maria Alvarez
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