Tag: American
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From ChatGPT based on “Pyramid of Capitalist System,” Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911. Of course, for America at least, what you’d like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on “shareholder,” just a small part. Maybe there’s some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic…
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How to raise money without profit, and then profit
Winning in the court of opinion, and all that: Musk, to be clear, has already succeeded. Regardless of what actually happened and what’s decided from here, he’s inflicted real pain. The trial has been an opportunity to make Altman and OpenAI’s founders look like greedy, sociopathic liars, which is a narrative that much of the…
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If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help,…
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This is how the new announcement economy works. You declare a massive number. The headlines write themselves. The stock moves. Mission accomplished.” Whether the deal actually closes becomes almost irrelevant. The momentum already happened.” As a generalized marketing strategy: “my doctrine is that velocity has replaced authority as the organizing principle of information. What and…
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Runciman’s thesis, roughly, is that any given week in a democracy looks like a clown show of dithering, delay, u-turns, squabbling and complacency. But from the longer perspective the chaos is effective – a symptom of democracy’s capacity to criticise itself, to change tack, to spread its bets widely, keep its options open and correct…
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Researchers at the University of Manchester followed 25,000 11- to 14-year-olds over three school years, tracking their self-reported social media habits, gaming frequency and emotional difficulties to find out whether technology use genuinely predicted later mental health difficulties. Participants were asked how much time on a normal weekday in term time they spent on TikTok,…
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The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate. From here. I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.”…
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I used to be from here, 2025 edition
Things expats notice when they’re back in America The night of arrival, at Stiles Switch. We go back to Texas each year for Christmas. You see things differently when you’ve been away for a long time. Here’s some from this year: Waymo everywhere, in Austin. So much yoghurt. Grown ass adults going to the store…
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It is hard to keep up with American corporate smile-energy.
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“Sometimes you get the sense that McCarthy believes the Twentieth Century actually ended in the 1980s and we just didn’t notice.” THE PASSENGER, Cormac McCarthy
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This matters politically because it means that in Latter-day Saint theology, coercion is not merely misguided policy or poor governance. It is literally Satanic. The negation of agency, forced conformity, compulsory salvation–these align with the devil’s rebellion against God’s plan. 🔗 Why are Mormons so Libertarian?
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The Europeans are not digging the American public cloud of late. “Europe is facing regulatory pressure, competition between countries, geopolitical tensions, and national security concerns-all focused on making sure Europe can develop and manage AI systems on its own, without depending on foreign platforms or providers,” said Lovelock. Leading to: IT spending in Europe is…
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The charts say things are OK
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade. 🔗 One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000
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“White Collar Elitism” America’s ‘Simon Sinek’ Problem
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The failures of ambition that keep the world running
“It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs that keep the world running like teachers, sanitation workers, nurses, delivery drivers as failures of ambition, while the real prestige lies in moving capital or manufacturing hype.” // Yowch. 🔗 How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy
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“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver
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“Come on down and chum some of this shit.”
Everyone needs to stop thinking about enterprise AI as a way to fire people and think about how to use AI to make people more productive: Forrester’s analysis found that using AI for financially driven layoffs can backfire: 55 percent of employers regret laying off workers because of AI. More people in charge of AI…
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“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
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