Ron and David George argue that AI is transforming venture capital by shifting trillions in labor spending toward massive compute investments and extreme power law dynamics.
I grew up watching the border change, seeing how a line on a map or a new policy at a checkpoint can turn a neighbor into a stranger and a livelihood into a memory.
When you grow up in Flint, you learn early that the people in charge always have a different set of rules for themselves than they do for the people they claim to represent.
When you’ve spent your life balancing a ledger or flying a C-130, you learn one immutable truth: hope is not a strategy. You don't assume the runway is clear; you verify it.
It seems that in the modern American imagination, privacy has become a commodity—a glittering, highly marketable asset to be liquidated piece by piece.
You watch these things—these self-inflicted spectacles in Clacton—and you realize that politics has become less about governance and more about performance art. It is exhausting, really.