Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Precarious Times

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This has gotten lots of attention in tech circles, but not that many people have been connecting the dots.  From the Information :  Coinbase...
Monday, June 29, 2026

If only we had effective, efficient technology to deal with these crises

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I realize this puts me at risk of being one of those people who uses tragedies as an excuse to flog a pet cause, but it's a topic that ...
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Friday, June 26, 2026

Another one of those stories that we really need Patrick Boyle for.

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June 12 ( Reuters ) - Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly ​disable" its most advanced AI models for all users after the U.S...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

NBC Blue was known for playing the uncensored version of Fibber McGee and Molly*

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As I probably mentioned before, if you have any interest in the film and television industry, KCRW's The Business is essential listenin...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

I've been waiting years for a good feral pig story so I would have an excuse to use these two quotes.

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The first comes from one of the great American novels, Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. "I haven't laughed so much over anything...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Newport is also the guy who suggested that Anthropic deserved the Nobel Prize in marketing for the Anthropic launch

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Something you won't hear me say often (because, as previously mentioned, I despise The New York Times), but this recent op-ed is essent...
Monday, June 22, 2026

The original Cushing oil boom was started in 1912 by a man actually named Tom Slick. Not relevant to the post but I had to mention it.

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In  most big stories, there are one or two pieces of absolutely essential context that get reported in major outlets but which no one seem...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Parting shots -- following up on some recent threads

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On the AI bubble... From Paul Kedrosky : Hyperscaler and data-center investment, negligible through 2022, is now tracking toward $1.5 trilli...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

1999 AD

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Some works actually improve because they've aged badly—badly in the sense that they feel dated or that they now work in a very different...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Question for the MBAs in the audience, is losiing $21 billion a year bad?

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 Ed Zirton has a scoop : Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been ind...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

If you're going to do a post on index funds...

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If you follow the financial press at all, be it the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, CNBC, CNN Business, Patrick ...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Paul Krugman has the perfect metaphor for the career of Elon Musk

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This pretty much nails it. Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Bo...
Friday, June 12, 2026

A repost to commemorate Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire

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Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible b...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

It turns out that dumb money isn't an unlimited resource...

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... and if you need suckers to pony up $75 billion, it has to come from somewhere.   Hannah Lang writing for Reuters : SpaceX's much-ant...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Ferguson and the deconstruction of late night

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I've been meaning to do more posts on late-night talk shows in general and, in particular, Craig Ferguson ever since Colbert and Kimmel ...