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They're calling Microsoft a cheap stock. Why is my spidey sense tingling?
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Why Are They Pumping Microsoft?
Cheaper Ain't Cheap
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about 21 hours ago
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Why is everyone pumping Microsoft stock all of a sudden?
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Why Are They Pumping Microsoft? - Dana Blankenhorn
I get naturally suspicious when analysts fall over themselves pushing the same stock. In this case, Microsoft.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2026/01/why-are-they-pumping-microsoft.html
about 21 hours ago
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The Virtuous Cycle of E-Transport is changing our cities and the way we live
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The Advance of E-Transport
CarHeads Retreat in Dense Cities
https://opafiets.substack.com/p/the-advance-of-e-transport
2 days ago
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Data Center stocks are doomed. Here's why
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The Data Center Nightmare
Huang’s Law vs. the Giant Mainframe
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/the-data-center-nightmare
2 days ago
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What the launch of the Rubin chip means. Data centers are railroads.
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The Data Center Nightmare - Dana Blankenhorn
Data centers are like mainframes, and the future doesn't need nearly as many as we think. They're railroad stocks.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2026/01/the-data-center-nightmare.html
2 days ago
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The Fans of Cruelty cheer the death of a bicyclist and the "conquest" of Venezuela equally. It's all performance
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The Fans of Cruelty - Dana Blankenhorn
The same people who will applaud a cyclist being run over cheer the capture of Venezuela. It's performative cruelty
https://danablankenhorn.com/2026/01/the-fans-of-cruelty.html
3 days ago
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Thoughts on 2026. Technology replaces its dictators with Internet speed
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Thoughts on Entering 2026 - Dana Blankenhorn
Revolutions lead to absolutism. But technology creates revolutions faster than even the strongest political leaders can control.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/thoughts-on-entering-2026.html
9 days ago
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Cities that want density need to support 15 mph e-transport
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E-Transport Defines the 21st Century City
15 is Fast Enough
https://opafiets.substack.com/p/e-transport-defines-the-21st-century
10 days ago
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From Opa Fiets with love. Happy 2026
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E-Transport Defines the 21st Century City - Dana Blankenhorn
E-bikes and other 15 mph vehicles need their own routes through our cities. Density can't function otherwise.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/e-transport-defines-the-21st-century-city.html
10 days ago
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Just in time, Josh Marshall gives us the Word of the Year for 2025
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The 2025 Word of the Year: Enslopenize - Dana Blankenhorn
To ensloppenize is to ruin your work with AI, in the process ruining the culture and the Internet feeding it.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/the-2025-word-of-the-year-enslopenize.html
16 days ago
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Here's why your mall died.
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The Death of Merchandising in an Online World - Dana Blankenhorn
Traditional merchandising has been replaced by online influencers, which is why your malls and downtown are dead
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/the-death-of-merchandising-in-an-online-world.html
17 days ago
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The AI Gods vs. The People - Dana Blankenhorn
The Gods of AI need political stability, which won't come from our current path. So the Gods will choose a new one.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/the-ai-gods-vs-the-people.html
20 days ago
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Anyone else notice how the NFL's theme for December smells suspiciously like DEI? And no one is saying a word about it. Defiance works if you're strong enough.
21 days ago
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If you want to know when this Administration ends, just follow the money
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2026: The Mandate of Heaven - Dana Blankenhorn
In the battle between money and power, money wins. The AI Gods will abandon the Administration when it suits them.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/2026-the-mandate-of-heaven.html
21 days ago
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The real welfare queens aren't the poor, and they're not the rich. They're the homeowners, like me, who pretend that hosues are an investment rather than a good we consume
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Our Dysfunctional Housing Market - Dana Blankenhorn
Houses are not investments. They deterioate when left empty. Our belief in a lie has left our kids without hope
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/our-dysfunctional-housing-market.html
23 days ago
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There's a war on our streets and the Carheads are winning. But this will change. Enlist with an e-bike
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Routes, Not Paths - Dana Blankenhorn
Conditions for E-Transport will improve as more of us start using it. Right now it's a war, and carheads are winning.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/routes-not-paths.html
24 days ago
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The bubble bursting is like the Spanish Inquisition. It doesn't happen when you expect it.
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When Will the Bubble Burst? - Dana Blankenhorn
The boom will bust when a money loser comes with their hand out, and everyone is feeling bullish. Not bearish.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/when-will-the-bubble-burst.html
27 days ago
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The most important urban story of our time
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and I'll be covering it.
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Becoming Opa Fiets In 2026 - Dana Blankenhorn
I will be spending more time next covering the E-Transport Revolution, the biggest change to hit cities since the car.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/becoming-opa-fiets-in-2026.html
28 days ago
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Making the 1820s great again
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2026: America’s Political Deadlock is Broken - Dana Blankenhorn
The Administration seeks to bring the politics of 200 years ago inside the Overton Window and disallow everything else.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/2026-americas-political-deadlock-is-broken.html
30 days ago
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Efforts to cauterize the financial wound caused by the failur eof OpenAI have already begun
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Cauterizing OpenAI - Dana Blankenhorn
Anyone can see OpenAI is failing. The AI Gods are desperately trying to cauterize the wound, claiming it's not serious.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/cauterizing-openai.html
about 1 month ago
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Ask what you can do with AI
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Ask Not What AI Can Do to You - Dana Blankenhorn
The Internet let me build a brand in writing. Clouds let people build them across media. AI will do the same in every business.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/ask-not-what-ai-can-do-to-you.html
about 1 month ago
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If Andy Jassy were a football coach they would have fired him years ago
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Fire Andy Jassy - Dana Blankenhorn
If Andy Jassy were a football coach he would have been out years ago. He's a bad boss and his returns are poor.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/fire-andy-jassy.html
about 1 month ago
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An E-Moto Is Not An E-Bike - Dana Blankenhorn
If it goes faster than a bike, if it's heavier than a bike, and if you don't have to pedal it, then it's not a bike.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/an-e-moto-is-not-an-e-bike.html
about 1 month ago
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Defending the Dutch from angry Substackers
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Defending the Netherlands - Dana Blankenhorn
The alternative to Dutch cooperation and tolerance is easy to see in America. It’s called Louisiana. No thankee.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/12/defending-the-netherlands.html
about 1 month ago
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Just as we need to understand each other to save our planet, everyone wants people to go away and not bother them.
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The Great Go Away - Dana Blankenhorn
We live at a time when we badly need a common understanding yet everyone resists people coming from outside their bubbles
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/the-great-go-away.html
about 1 month ago
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The Substack version
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Microsoft Walks Back the AI Hype
Humanist Superintelligence is Little AI
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/microsoft-walks-back-the-ai-hype
about 1 month ago
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The AI hope I can deliver this Thanksgiving
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Microsoft Walks Back the AI Hype - Dana Blankenhorn
Microsoft is walking back the AGI hype that caused Google's stock to pop, calling its offering Humanist Superintelligence
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/microsoft-walks-back-the-ai-hype.html
about 1 month ago
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I'm not always right. I was wrong about Google.
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I Was Wrong About Google - Dana Blankenhorn
Google has emerged as AI's landlord, and its Gemini 3 LLM beats OpenAI. I was wrong to write them off last year.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/i-was-wrong-about-google.html
about 1 month ago
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Did the AI Bubble Just Pop? Sadly, no
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Was This “The Big One?” - Dana Blankenhorn
Had this been "The Big One" everyone would be in the market, and everything would have fallen hard. Relax.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/was-this-the-big-one.html
about 2 months ago
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A lesson from my life. Gentrification should be led by the middle class. When developers lead it, it becomes a prison.
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Triumph of the Gentry
A Brief History of Modern Atlanta
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/triumph-of-the-gentry
about 2 months ago
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Developers are using e-transport to lock the middle class into rental housing
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It doesn't have to be this way.
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Triumph of the Gentry - Dana Blankenhorn
The Atlanta Beltline is old news. The real story is developers using e-transport to lock the middle class in rental housing
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/triumph-of-the-gentry.html
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Jessica Valenti
about 2 months ago
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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My Idaho Stop
Bikes Aren’t Cars. Don't Pretend They Are
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/my-idaho-stop
about 2 months ago
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Karen Attiah
about 2 months ago
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-most-is-free-expression/2018/10/17/adfc8c44-d21d-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html
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My Idaho Stop - Dana Blankenhorn
Treating bikes like they're cars is an effort to make E-Transport disappear, not make it safe. Slow down and share the road.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/my-idaho-stop.html
about 2 months ago
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Yann LeCun Insists Effective AI Must Be Human
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The LeCun Rebellion - Dana Blankenhorn
Yann LeCun demands that AIs ground their work in true facts, an approach the Cloud Czars reject as too costly.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/the-lecun-rebellion.html
about 2 months ago
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If AI doesn't serve people, then people won't have it.
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Life Beyond AI - Dana Blankenhorn
If technology doesn't serve people then it's useless. Our AI "masters" must learn this just as the rail barons did.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/life-beyond-ai.html
about 2 months ago
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Market cap is not wealth. Don't pretend you're rich just because stocks are up
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Market Cap is Not Wealth - Dana Blankenhorn
Market cap is ephemeral. Money is a verb. What We, The People choose to do with the nation's wealth is up to us.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/market-cap-is-not-wealth.html
about 2 months ago
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Political change starts with economic change and the pain of its victims
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Suburban Poverty - Dana Blankenhorn
When housing and stock prices fall the way will be clear to a politics that goes beyond arguments over Trumpism.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/suburban-poverty.html
about 2 months ago
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Some thoughts on the philosophy of AGI
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Intelligence Without Consciousness
Putting Descartes Before De Horse in AI
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/intelligence-without-consciousness
about 2 months ago
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Some thoughts on the ethics of AGI
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Intelligence Without Consciousness - Dana Blankenhorn
How is it possible that I think but I am not? Are intelligence and conscience linked? And what about consciousness?
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/intelligence-without-consciousness.html
about 2 months ago
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What’s Killing the AI Boom
A Lack of Humanity
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/whats-killing-the-ai-boom
about 2 months ago
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AI's friends are killing the AI boom, not its enemies
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What’s Killing the AI Boom - Dana Blankenhorn
To call Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Sam Altman a humanist is to call Jeffrey Dahmer an epicurean. They're killing their own boom.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/whats-killing-the-ai-boom.html
about 2 months ago
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E-Transport is Technology
The Revolution is Accelerating
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/e-transport-is-technology
about 2 months ago
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The fight against current Democratic leadership is as important as the fight against Trump. Come to think of it, it's the same fight.
about 2 months ago
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E-Transport is Technology - Dana Blankenhorn
E-Transport is evolving rapidly, even dangerously, while getting more resistance from car heads and legal ignorance
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/e-transport-is-technology.html
about 2 months ago
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It's the weekend. Let's talk sports
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Socialism vs. Capitalism Isn’t Either-Or - Dana Blankenhorn
European sports are capitalist but not competitive. American sports are competitive but represent state socialism.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/socialism-vs-capitalism-isnt-either-or.html
2 months ago
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Mamdani's easiest win is just sitting there waiting for him
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Cities Need E-Transport
E-Transport Needs Government
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/cities-need-e-transport
2 months ago
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This can be an easy win for Mamdani
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Cities Need E-Transport - Dana Blankenhorn
You can organize E-Transport for less than the cost of a single train line. But you need to face down cars to do it.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/cities-need-e-transport.html
2 months ago
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What I learned about AI yesterday. It's important
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The AI Wars - Dana Blankenhorn
AI has important, proven applications. These make much of what we know about war, media, and politics obsolete.
https://danablankenhorn.com/2025/11/the-ai-wars.html
2 months ago
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