Coffee Break: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Loves To Throw Good Money After Bad
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is upping the ante in the AI business, triggering a bidding war for talent and he’s willing to poach from competitors.
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Coffee Break: Ancient Food Facts, Cancer Therapy, the Conscious Brain, and Biohacking with Biotech…Plus Thomas Jefferson
On this Independence Day in one country in North America a few notes on life outside current politics, scientific and otherwise. Part the First: The Archaeology of Food Is Fascinating. Having read about Roman eating habits over the years I have wondered about two things, fish sauce and the dormouse. Now we know which fish […]
Read more...Palantir’s AI Justified Israel’s Attack on Iran — Will Tech Take Us Back to Irrational Beliefs?
Palantir’s AI justified Israel’s attack on Iran, marking a turning point where decisions are made based on algorithms we don’t understand
Read more...Coffee Break: Rahm Emanuel’s Kayfabe Candidacy
Rahm Emanuel is teasing a run for President in 2028. His brother Ari, a Democratic power-broker and a Trump insider will be a problem.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Are You Not Entertained?
We have entered an era in which warfare has departed from the conventional (Clausewitzian) concept of attaining clear objectives. Instead, modern armed conflict is characterized by limited and generally inconclusive military clashes motivated by factors disconnected from the practical concerns of the affected citizens. War has turned away from decisive conflict and embraced performative spectacle. […]
Read more...Coffee Break: OpenAI as The Money Pit
OpenAI’s fatally flawed finances reveal a company that presents no serious threat to any of the tech incumbents, including Google.
Read more...Coffee Break: Funding Medical Education, A Human Ancestor, Tardigrades to the Rescue, Trashing the Earth, Plus MAHA and Measles
Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much. Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]
Read more...The Israel–Iran Conflict Tests “America First” and Redefines ‘Auctoritas’
Trump’s attack on Iran tests the limits of “America First” and reveals a deeper MAGA divide over who holds legitimate authority—auctoritas
Read more...Coffee Break: Is Mamdani’s Win Over Cuomo The End of Democratic Party Neoliberalism?
Progressives in the Democratic party are declaring the ruling neoliberal class of the party leadership finished after NYC primary.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Circular Error Probability
Circular error probability (CEP) is the metric weapons designers use to describe the accuracy of munitions. CEP is defined as the radius of a circle, centered on the intended target, within which 50% of projectiles or warheads are expected to land. As guidance technology has advanced, CEPs of modern missiles and drones have grown smaller. […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Nihilists at Google Wrecking Existing Business to Chase AI Growth
Nihilism on the part of Alphabet’s CEO explains Google’s willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.
Read more...Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance
Part the First. How Did the United States Get This Healthcare System? I distinctly remember the first time this question occurred to me, because as the child of a union household a visit to the doctor or the Emergency Room (trees were made to fall out of) was never a problem. I was twenty years […]
Read more...Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons
Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran
Read more...Coffee Break: Texas Is the MAGA vs RINO Frontline
Texas is the 3rd largest US state. It’s been under GOP rule for 21 years and a civil war is brewing between MAGA and RINO factions.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Israel’s Ominous Future
The fog of war is thick over the current hostilities between Israel and Iran, but the intense interest in short-term outcomes of this regional war may be obscuring the ultimate prospects for Israel as negative trends undermine its militaristic foreign policy. I will describe these trends and the likely outcome. Loss of International Support The […]
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