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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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Omnia Iam Fient Quae Posse Negabam
Factum est. Appareo decet nihil munditia? Ad absurdum? Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Luke sum ipse patrem te.
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The Wisdom of Clowns?
So I am looking up Korea on Wikipedia and some things are amiss. I can only assume it is a North Korean plot: Korea was united until 1998; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea. Since the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea was ruled by 7 governments and maintained political and cultural…
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Bionic Eyesight
Devices from science fiction are becoming real at a prodigious pace. Makes the phone-based augmented reality stuff look clunky.
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Hoping for Change: Monetary Policy Edition
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping for a more radical announcement: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve SystemCutting…
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Less Lobbying, More Bug-Fixing
Attention Mozilla: less lobbying, more bug fixing. Is Safari worth trying on Windows?