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The most consequential fraud in modern technology is not happening in the code. It is happening in the units. If you ever studied the collapse of Soviet economics, you know exactly what I’m about to explain. AI companies have built a billing infr…
The Department of War. The Secretary of War. The wartime spend. The wartime rhetoric. The wartime dead. We are supposed to believe none of the above means Iran is a war. Hegseth says he needs $200 billion to keep his non-war war running indefinitely wi…
Today should become a national American holiday: Lemon Pound Cake Day. An Ohio jury just delivered one of the clearest freedom verdicts in recent memory. It took less than a day to throw out all thirteen claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, the l…
Thomas Edsall’s latest New York Times essay opens with a Peter Thiel quote from 2010 that deserves far more scrutiny for historic parallels than the NYT gives it. We could never win an election on getting certain things because we were in such a …
Trump bankruptcy is on the horizon again, this time on the ocean. Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump University, Trump Airline and now… Trump Oil. Court filings tell the story. Trump applying the American military, like the mob flexes protection ra…
Matthew Yglesias runs a Substack called Slow Boring where he routes every problem in American political economy through zoning reform. His latest piece asks why Silicon Valley hasn’t done more for most Americans, and his answer is: not enough apa…
A “water rat” in German (Wasserratte) is someone who swims extremely well. Think of it like “book worm”. A “book rat” (Leseratte) is someone very proficient at reading. The compound logic is simple: an animal plus an…
Sitting at my desk in San Francisco, sometime around 2016, I got an email from a master sergeant. A recording of a firefight. And then a phone call. Play it, he said. So I played it. Gunfire. Chaos. Then a voice: Grenade. Play it again, he said. Listen…
The New York Times published a long piece by Clive Thompson on how AI is transforming programming. It’s like hearing someone drag their nails on a philosophy chalkboard in an attempt to erase centuries of human progress. Developers at Google, Ama…
A thread on Bluesky was forwarded to me that compared the US-Israeli war on Iran to the 1956 Suez Crisis, or the “War of Tripartite Aggression” as it’s called by some. Their argument is we are in America’s Suez moment, and the q…