Variety RIP to the King

Wait a minute. You mean to say that we don’t need to blanket the earth with data centers and coal & gas plants to maybe arrive at a future where we can wave a magical AGI wand to make all of the consequences of that go away? Yes. This is a false trade off. Let that sink in. 16/

great time to revisit Jasmine’s piece about Silicon Valley’s fear of Chinese spies & how it’s impacting the AI talent pipeline in the US 👀

In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about why I'm such an evangelist of Walter Ong Thought. Why I think the Return To Orality is the biggest story of our time. And how we're completely rewiring the logic engine of the human brain.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/111…

I found this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending really, really worrisome. So I called up the Moody’s economist who made the finding. Turns out, he does too: (gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

So several people have circulated an idea that the sweeping tariffs, government spending cuts, and the now quite worried markets we’re seeing under President Trump might actually be part of a larger, intentional slowdown - rather than random chaos (the administration has said as