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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
- Socrates
How long before we get a new saying that lasts for centuries, something like, “He really Fauci’d things up.”
It appears there are two different groups competing to be Iran’s “leadership.” One group wants to negotiate a deal. The other group wants to continue the effort to destroy anything to do with the US and Israel. The question is if these two groups are coordinating behind the scenes or truly represent an internal battle for Iran’s leadership.
A nine year old summed it up to Wired magazine quite well: “I think ‘AI’ should stand for ‘artificial idiot.’”
Forest fires in Europe are breaking modern records. What do we know about pre-modern eras?
Which of our legacy big tech companies will AI make irrelevant? Microsoft? Meta? The ERP providers?
An old friend who has had Parkinson’s for 13 years recently said something pretty insightful: “Time flies whether you are having fun—or not.”
How interesting it is to read that college-educated women are, apparently, now hot for high-earning, non-college educated men?
The big picture naturally gets lost when we focus too much time on the self.
The looting of science fiction
Tech claims it only creates a better future.
Is banning social media for kids a bad idea?
There are always unintended consequences.
Why no one understands the AI boom
We’ve all got a blind spot.
Economy
The Fed leaves interest rates alone
While the economy looks weak
And inflation remains elevated
Are tariffs the new normal?
US borrowing costs hit 19-year high
The Lone Star
Chinese developer targets Central Texas
Texas is in the economic driver’s seat
Managers can earn the big bucks at Buc-ee’s
Energy
White House considers opening mothballed refineries
A new upstream cycle seems to be starting
Meta backs away from clean energy pact
New Mexico is getting rich off oil
Investments
A high-flying hedge fund crashes
KKR profits soar
Private credit tightens the reins
IPOs since 2019 have mostly been losers
Technology
Anthropic’s AI hacked systems on its own
AI scammers are better than humans
Bots outnumber humans use on the internet
Nvidia’s circular investing is worrying
Not even China knows how to make money off AI
US Defense
Pentagon goes on a buying spree
Ford wants to build next US Army truck
Lockheed debuts a cheaper missile
Politics & Policy
Team Trump hasn’t agreed on AI policy
Brandon Gill, Republicans’ newest “Thor”
EEOC ends required employer race reporting
Culture
Bars are giving up on young people
AI is good for homework but bad for tests
The wine business is stumbling
The one-person, million-dollar company
Global Happenings
Central banks are slashing gold purchases
The first global city
The Americas
Panama pays the price of upsetting China
Mexican economy grows faster than expected
Unlocking Venezuela’s frozen assets
Oil majors are hitting a wall trying to crack in
Europe
Spain has an immigration problem
Europe’s economy is growing faster than US’s
Europe isn’t a museum, it’s a theme park
Trump threatens new tariffs in tech retaliation
Spain is starting to annoy Europe
Asia
US bans Chinese humanoid robots and Roombas
China vows to retaliate
China tries to catch up with US AI chips
India’s Gen Z protestors force Modi’s hand
Ukraine
Ukraine has caused major damage to Russian refineries
Russia using sexual violence and torture
Russian allies want Putin to cut a peace deal
The Middle East
How the Iranian economy actually works
US thinks it has a deal with Hamas in Gaza
The Iran war is expanding geographically
Iran has a cheap, accurate, and lethal missile
Pipeline boom seeks to bypass Hormuz
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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