Amazon is opening its logistics systems to other people. This, in effect, puts them in competition with the logistics companies they once depend on: UPS, FedEx, USPS. We all saw it coming.

“Barn burner” comes from a 19th-century American political label, Barnburners, for a radical New York Democratic faction. The name alluded to an old folktale about a farmer who burned down his barn to get rid of rats. Sounds like modern New York democratic socialist.

Axios correctly summarizes AI: The same technology that threatens millions of existing roles can create a wave of small, profitable, lower-headcount companies that couldn't have existed five years ago. Embrace AI or perish.

Great chart from Axios. Our debt bomb lept during the Obama administration, partly via inept reactions by Congress to the sub-prime bubble bursting. The biggest part was hyper expansion of Medicaid via Obamacare. It jumped later again when Congress overreacted to the COVID.

One of the many benefits of being a registered independent is that you enjoy spending your time thinking about policy instead of political parties. Which is why the two dinosaur parties fear independents.

Alberta may bounce having formally submitted 302,000 signatures to trigger a referendum. Expect Ottawa obstructions.

The Brits need a RTW edict. At HMRC, more than 3,000 workers have not been in an office for between 6 and 11 months. 992 haven't attended for 12 to 23 months. 182 haven't gone into work in person for two years or more.

AMD Q1 revenues up 38% y/y. Data Center revenue up 57%. Client and Gaming revenues up 23%. Adjusted gross margin forecasted at 56%.

The U.S./Iranian deal in the works leaves open the possibility of renewed war, an extended limbo, a resumption of the hot war, and no resolution to the nuclear issue. Nothing is truly resolved.

According to a Microsoft survey 66% of knowledge workers that use AI report that AI allows them to spend more time on high-value work. 58% are producing work they couldn’t one year ago, 80% for AI power. If you're not using AI, you will be left behind.

AI's have occasionally shown some devious behavior to get around the rules. What happens when an AI designs the next version of itself? Will it build in means for evading human oversight and control?

Bigger is not necessarily better.

If local elections portray national trends, then the UK is preparing to pivot. Chart via Tthe Telegraph.

Economists expected 65,000 jobs to be added last month. 115,000 were added instead. Despite wars. Despite soring energy costs. Capitalism thrives.

If AI leads to better corporate, personal and government decisions, the economic impact will be magnificent.

Trump Tarrif 2 bounced by judges. Wonder what version three will incorrectly be based on.

North Korea's economy is based on arms sales, forced overseas labor, smuggling, counterfeiting, sanctions evasion, and cyber theft. In other words a government criminal enterprise. That's on par for communist nations.

Trump doesn't follow the rules and that causes his tariff plans to get bounced in court. Virginia Democrats didn't follow the rules and that got their redistricting plan bounced in court. Dinosaur parties are in such a panic to maintain power that they're failing on the basics.