The Astonishing AI Boom
Our baseline instinct is that most new technology is a waste of time. Even not-so-smart electronics often do more harm than good. Like mutations in the gene pool, most are sterile…or grotesque.
Commentary
Prepare for Landing
Humans wander out of the box. This is how we get our art, music and literature. This is also how we get big disasters…and big breakthroughs.
Socialism Whacked
Milei is doing something different. He’s cutting budgets, trimming employees, and chopping off unnecessary bureaucratic appendages. He’s been in office for a little shy of two years
Back with the Breeze
People are neither always good nor always bad, but they are always subject to influence. The last three decades tells them they can get other peoples’ stuff without ever paying for it.
Burning Down the House
Congress could easily end the shutdown by coming to an agreement on healthcare subsidies. Other disputes could be readily resolved in the familiar way — in which both sides agree to spend more money.
Colossal Wrecks
Bubble markets have their moments of triumph too… just before they fall apart. It is then too when prices get furthest removed from real values.
