The Paradox of Prosperity: Gratitude vs Expectations
Why improvement breeds complaint.
Repost: Forbes, ‘$209 Billion Powering AI's Infrastructure‘
A $209 billion fight over AI infra is reshaping tech.
Two Reposts on When Pacifism Meets Reality
Western Europe lectures others about self-defense, then rushes to borrow it when the threat lands at home.
Repost: IrishCentral, “Ireland banned Casablanca as unfair to Nazis”
Neutrality has always been selective.
Fear Theater: Danger on Paper
Your perception of danger contrasts rhetoric with experience.
Harm Reduction 2 + Repost: Quillette, "Rethinking Harm Reduction"
Another friend gone. Harm reduction isn’t enough.
Repost: The New Arab, "SDF tunnel could swallow homes and roads..."
Syrian militants are digging deadly tunnels under Raqqa, and the world looks away.
Master of Buzzwords & Acronyms
The Marginal Benefit Acquired from an MBA May Be Avoidable.
Repost: NYT on Goebbels Censoring Comedy (1939)
Banning Wit, Then and Now