Tag: Trump
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The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s…
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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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Tech DEI programs on decline
Major employers including Meta and Google suspended minority hiring targets and dropped some references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from their websites and regulatory filings around the time of Trump’s order. Meta and Google also significantly reduced funding for DEI initiatives, such as events, training, and recruiting drives aimed at improving representation of minority groups,…
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“I’m a Wal-Mart guy. What’re we gonna do about it? It’s the year 2025.” Noah on The Hotline Show, September 28th, 2025.
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Trump’s pressure on Apple to make All-American phones ignores the last tech giant that tried and failed – If no one wants the product, it doesn’t matter where it’s made. // “In the end, Motorola’s failed U.S. adventure had little to do with where the Moto X was assembled, by all accounts. The phone simply…
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Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It – “A few years ago, everyone was saying, ‘They’re our trusted partners.’ There’s been a radical change.” // Last week I hear people talking about “Euro Cloud,” a very new idea of building out public cloud infrastructure in Europe that, I assume, has…
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Donald Trump’s digital landgrab – File under “sovereign cloud”: “The state department is now claiming otherwise: if you’re on the internet and using a service provided by a US tech company, they say, then Donald Trump sets the rules. The US is quietly declaring sovereignty over cyberspace and expecting the world to acquiesce, making an…
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Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies – ‘last year 17% of Republicans viewed the EU as “unfriendly” or as an “enemy”; that has now grown to 29%.’
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Consumers React To Tariffs With Concern And Caution – “4% of Democrats support the tariffs, and 26% of Republicans oppose them.” // Also, anecdotes of what people plan to do to deal with price increases.
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Canadians’ Health Data Needs Safeguarding Against Our Increasingly Hostile Neighbor – Maybe Trump drives a lot of sovereign cloud.
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The Soil, Not Just the Harvest – The right’s long, systematic campaign to take over politics and get a strong hand in culture wars: “Blaming Trump alone offers psychological comfort, by localizing a systemic problem in a single figurehead. It legitimizes the false promise that removing one man solves the underlying condition. It absolves millions…
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America Voted For Chaos. The Markets Are Feeling the Punch. – Dumb disruption: “Disruption can be a positive force. But over the last decade, it has become a hand-wave that forgives and excuses irresponsible governance, poor decision-making, and financial incompetence. The reason you can’t run the government like a startup is simple: 90% or more…
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Trumpian policy as cultural policy – Using culture-blitz to incrementally change society.
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Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce – Big layoff vibes for 2025.
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What ‘Free Speech’ Is – “Right now, it is important for Meta to avoid getting on the incoming Trump administration’s shit list, so they, like everyone, are grovelling.” // Good over all, almost philosophic, analysis.
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Bitcoin Lessons – The case that crypto is bad. This is a good counter/balance to the Trump Tech Bros acting all butt-hurt about crypto regulation.
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Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati
It’s hard to be Huawei in the US already, and under Trump it must be unbearable. Meanwhile, I hear they’re sucking up marketshare elsewhere. Original source: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati
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Link: Broadcom/Qualcomm stopped by Trump
‘For capital markets, this is unprecedented. A deal that didn’t even exist has been blocked by a U.S. president, who also apparently has the power to determine who can and can’t stand for election to a private sector company’s board of directors. And all of this was enabled by a regulatory body focused on foreign…
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Link: Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers
“The mills and smelters that supply the raw material, and that would directly benefit from the tariffs, have been shrinking for years. Today, those industries employ fewer than 200,000 people. The companies that buy steel and aluminum, to make everything from trucks to chicken coops, employ more than 6.5 million workers, according to a Heritage…
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Link: To detractors, he’s a buffoon; to dealmakers, he’s a boon
“By a more than two-to-one margin, respondents to the 451 Research Tech Corporate Development Outlook Survey said the Trump White House will help spur M&A in 2018. Specifically, 59% said the current administration will ‘stimulate’ dealmaking this year, compared with just 23% saying it will ‘inhibit’ dealmaking.” Original source: To detractors, he’s a buffoon; to…
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