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“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed."

William Gibson
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy

The last time so much wealth was tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis.
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025...
Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy
The last time so much wealth was tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
AI Bubble Risk: David Woo's 2026 Outlook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMW3...

Increasing competition from China, releasing LLM models as open source, undercuts US companies’ ability to make money from AI.
China has 20 companies working to produce AI chips for $500 instead of $50,000 chips from USA.
AI Bubble Risk: David Woo's 2026 Economic Outlook
YouTube video by Financial Sense
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Really?

20 years "dismantling democracy through a steady centralization of power and undercutting of checks and balances—what political scientists label as executive aggrandizement."

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
U.S. Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective
The erosion of U.S. democracy under President Donald Trump shares many features with other prominent cases of democratic backsliding. Yet a close comparative look highlights important distinctive elem...
carnegieendowment.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Cheney's company Hallibuton received 39.5 BILLION from no bid govt contracts for the war.

War Profiteer.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Check out the tech billionaire bond market.

"Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have issued around $100 billion of bonds year-to-date"

www.businessinsider.com/stock-market...
Tech companies are on a wild debt binge to fuel their AI ambitions. It could mean trouble for markets.
Corporate borrowers around the world are on a debt binge this year. Some see the tech-led borrowing spree leading to trouble for markets.
www.businessinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
"A record-high 80% of U.S. adults believe Americans are greatly divided on the most important values"

news.gallup.com/poll/650828/...
Americans Agree Nation Is Divided on Key Values
Eight in 10 Americans, a new high, perceive the U.S. as being greatly divided on the most important values.
news.gallup.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Strongly disagree.

"Americans increasingly see the country as more divided than at any time since the Civil War."

news.syr.edu/2025/10/23/t...
The ‘Great Divide’: Understanding US Political Polarization
Johanna Dunaway, research director at Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship and a political science professor, explains how partisan viewpoints, news consumption an...
news.syr.edu
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“I keep thinking of Wiley Coyote at the edge of a cliff in the roadrunner cartoons, and he doesn’t fall until he looks down. The question is, when are people going to look down? The finances don’t make any sense, and I think they’re starting to look down.”
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Hey Whitehouse,
We don’t have the benefit of being able to rely on a family fortune or having a spouse’s family fortune.

You voted to help fund an org. that pays your wife for consulting work.

cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...
Watchdog accuses Dem senator of ethics violation over $7M in grants to wife's nonprofit
Ethics watchdog the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust (FACT) on Tuesday filed a complaint accusing Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., of violating Senat
cbsaustin.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hmmm... Your "intuition" tells you Rump is innocent?

Rape Culture:

Blaming the victim (“She asked for it!”)
Trivializing sexual assault (“Boys will be boys!”)
Tolerance of sexual harassment

inside.southernct.edu/sexual-misco...
Rape Culture, Victim Blaming, And The Facts | Southern Connecticut State University
What is Rape Culture? Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated thr...
inside.southernct.edu
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM