Mexico and China didn’t take manufacturing jobs from the Rust Belt - ”A big missing part of the story: Interstate competition. The Rust Belt’s manufacturing decline isn’t primarily about jobs going to Mexico. It’s about jobs going to Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.”
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AI agents drive Boomi’s vision for scalable automation - Adding MCP support.
Shadow AI Isn’t a Threat: It’s a Wake-up Call - “Shadow AI isn’t the enemy – it’s a signal. Shadow AI tells you that your teams want AI, they need AI and they’re willing to move without you if they have to. That’s not just a risk. It’s a roadmap. This is your chance to build something better: secure, governed AI enablement that works the way your teams do."
Texas’ Regulatory Landscape | Mercatus Center - ”Texas is the 5th most regulated state in the US” // I wouldn’t have expected top 5!
Revisiting the clouds - “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress” // Indeed…
Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation - I can’t read Math-Greek, so don’t really know what’s going on here. But it looks helpful for playing D&D with the robot.
Why is AI not in your productivity statistics? - I like one of the ideas here: when AI makes things better, and those things don’t obviously increase sales/profit (“growth”) or save money, it’s easy to think it has no ROI. Increasing quality of life with productivity is hard to capture in GDP, so to speak.
news that stays news - What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with Bonhoeffer or Simone Weil or John Donne or Pascal — things that happened this very term — it’s all new to them.” // Or: every second someone new is born who’s never watched The Flintstones.