I don’t know if this is true, but people were saying that the tariff policy was what LLMs suggest when asked about how to reduce a trade deficit. So perhaps we are already being governed by ChatGPT.

It’s been near 15 years since I read it, but it’s kind of a cautionary tale about tradition, superstition, and how easily humans succumb to their base impulses and can commit insane violence.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Japan, you were supposed to deliver us to our train powered future, not leave us in Tesla tunnels.

Some maps showing predicted paths

First they came for the Palestinians, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Palestinian.

So we’re going to stop supplying Israel with weapons, money, and international cover, right? RIGHT?