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The population of AIs was effectively zero as recently as 2020.

Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later.

A possible wealth tax: for every one million dollars you spend in political contributions, your wealth tax rises another 1%.

Betting markets give Democrats nearly 2-to-1 odds of winning the presidency in 2028, and then serving from 2029 to 2033.

A simple pronunciation error.

October 19, 2016, in the third and final debate for the 2016 presidential election.

Today the 9 richest Americans all saw a dip in net worth, losing a total of $90 billion.

“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” has given way to “Beware of geeks bearing GIFs”: shiny little offerings that lure us into the infinite scroll.

It was a curious AI.

Mostly, I'm thankful for the Canadian who left her beautiful country to live with me.

What was admirable: he had a lot of drive.

Travel is deadly.

Traditionally, a lot of college mascots were named after the animals or occupations that defined their regions.

Just as the birthrates of humans is falling, the birthrate of artificial intelligences is exploding.

From Harper's ....

For a time, I would occasionally find myself in a restaurant showing MMA on a big screen.

We use telescopes to see into the past.

From Harper's Magazine Minimum number of homes in San Francisco that sold for at least $1 million over the asking price in 2025 : 25 In the first seven months of 2026 : 160

We're fascinated with sports in part because they offer a little oasis of clarity.

How old am I?

Suppose you suddenly learned that you were simply a dollop of consciousness in the midst of a virtual reality game that had, until this moment, seemed entirely real.

Martin Chorzempa - in a Peterson Institute presentation - reports on the current gap between American and Chinese chips.

By far his most sweeping idea was AI-EI-O: artificial intelligence applied to agriculture and farming.

He claimed to be well read, but occasionally undermined the claim by doing something like quoting Moby Dick.

Cowboys in the future will use very different technology to move cattle.

Nobel Prizes will be announced over the next week.

“I put the Trump in triumph,” he said proudly.

She didn't miss COVID but she did miss some of the norms.

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Idea for a metaphysical detective show.

In 1849, at the height of the California Gold Rush, eggs that cost pennies elsewhere sold for $1 to $3 apiece in California.

"I find it hard to believe that he has been knighted.

Do you think that guys would watch more romcoms if they included replays and analysis?

Even placebos have side effects.

"We can't succeed in the eyes of the world if we continue with the levels of political turbulence we have seen in recent times.

Micron continues to tell investors that it no longer cyclical in this new, AI-driven market for memory.

The emergence of AI has come at a time when we're producing new information and possibilities at a mind boggling pace.

He'd been intrigued by the concept of dystopian nonfiction.

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt

New Politics for the Next Economy - my new book - in a single table.

Google AI can now generate images based on whatever prompt you give it.

What if Nvidia's Jensen Huang had the same deal as Elon Musk, or if Musk had the same deal as Huang?

Little known fact: Yale was originally called Y'all.

I'm optimistic about how AI might change voting.

College football, 2020s: The transfer portal allows even star players to change teams from season to season.

Joe Biden, just 3 years ago, speaking from a very different America to the UN.

Genesis is a curious name for a car brand.

Imagine a a national civic intelligence system — AI that understands the country, its institutions, its accumulated expertise and the continuously expressed preferences of its citizens, and helps government explore policies that reconcile them.

He'd always found Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences—Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, Spatial-Visual Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, etc.

When intelligence becomes abundant, the scarce resource is the ability to turn possibility into reality.