The Art of the...oh, never mind, I guess.

Deeply and profoundly ashamed to be American on a daily basis as of late

If the leader of another country spoke in these violent and unhinged tones, our media would likely see it for what it is. But because it is our President doing so, even the most outrageous, inhumane things must be normalized.

2010s: a startup worth $1 billion is a vanishingly rare thing (a "unicorn") 2026: a company that makes AI collars for cows is worth $ 2 billion www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Board of Peace? More like Bored of Peace

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

In a model where employees retain value only for their institutional/tacit knowledge, and not for their fungible skills, I think this hiring/firing behavior is what you expect. New employees become substitutable before existing employees.

Well as long as we are calling them "preemptive strikes", I suppose. No one said that the thing they are supposed to "preempt" has to be a real threat!

AI will not free you: www.ft.com/content/9c6a...

What if...the Bad Bunny halftime show was, in fact, about many of the things that make America great?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Dan Ariely in the Epstein Files? Color me surprised! (Not.)

Today in "economic impossibilities"

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

Dear @wsj.com, please do not print lies in the newspaper. Sometimes, there are different views about what exactly happened. This is not one of those times.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Reposting apropos of nothing. The media has a duty not only to document what's happening, but also to clearly spell out what is true based on the best available evidence

Could America win the AI race but lose the war? - www.ft.com/content/1258... via @FT

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City - on.ft.com/4hAQQql via @FT

This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Inevitably, this is what a majority of folks in Texas voted for, whether they really wanted it or not.

Memorie di una vita passata www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Dop...

Opinion | Unintended AI consequence: the return of status markers share.google/AlhmunOxW2T4...

I was an international student at Columbia. It is not clear to me on what authority the federal government should decide how many international students are too many at a particular institution of higher learning...and I'll just stop there.