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The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies

"It's Bad." It's very very bad. And each week, when I gather up the education and AI-related news here, I keep wishing I could say we've reached the peak of this mountain of horrors and that things will get easier, things will get better from here. It's quite apparent that

Posted on Friday 7 Mar 2025. 522 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb.

The overwhelming majority of Amazon's operating income comes from a business that accounts for just 16% of the company's revenue.

Ever feel like no matter how hard you work, getting ahead just isn’t as easy as it used to be?

New thing I’m in the middle of. Going to get bigger and annoyingly more complex, but the message will stay clear. This week’s question comes to us from...

James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics.

I've seen a lot of people express the sentiment that they initially found Musk compelling because the books they loved as kids made them also want to be an Astronaut and go to Mars, and they saw in his public persona some kind of a kindred spirit. Well, I also read a lot as a child, and I wished for an ebon longsword that nourished me with the damned souls of my enemies. But then, eventually ...

I was about to post this as a reply to someone on my "Make Nazis Sweat Again" post, which has derailed into car-brained windshield-view defenses of Musk, but it got long, sooooo.... The world is full of people who, in this, the Year of Our Basilisk, 2025, are willing to loudly admit, "Yeah, I knew Musk was -- [pick one or all] -- 1) a homophobe, 2) a racist, 3) a con man, 4) a eugenicist, 5) ...

While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private firms are instead held by a more concentrated and exclusive set of owners.

What happens if you try to get $50,000 cash out of a bank? Sometimes, a year of investigative journalism.

I’m here to tell you what should already be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal things that are blatantly obvious.

My project thus far has been to educate you, to help you renormalize history from a common ethical center. To show you what should be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal thi…

I am a Tariff Man ,” declares Donald Trump. But what about inflation? In his 2025 State of the Union, he admits There mightl be "a little ...

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative — no matter how detached from reality it is.&#

It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention but Donald Trump’s February 11th...

The Trump administration is a self-inflicted economic, political, and diplomatic aneurysm, hemorrhaging chaos with no purpose beyond its own destruction.

25.9% of teenagers who spend four or more hours daily on screens experienced depression symptoms in the past two weeks. 27.1% reported anxiety symptoms. Higher durations of Internet use increases depression levels. Adolescents who spend more than three hours online daily are more likely to fall into the

The two centrist senators handed Trump control of the National Labor Relations Board, dealing a blow to labor unions and workers.

President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue from the sale of a separate coin from a company called World Liberty Financial.

Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war

I am grateful to Dr Tim Rideout for drawing my attention to the GDP Now forecast run by the Atlanta Fed in the USA. As they say of this: The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with...

The FFCKUS, on his media platform: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agita...

A compact assessment of where capitalism is taking us.

A detailed timeline of apparent efforts to politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.

Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery: A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say "WHAT'S ELON'S CUM TASTE LIKE?," and "NAZI CAR," and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc. Another post shows images of words people had drawn on the side of a ...