The NZ Town Subsidising Silicon Valley’s AI Boom
A farmer outside Invercargill stands at a fence line and tries to picture it: the paddock across the road, not…
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Right-Wing Content Collects Higher Advertiser Dollars
Open two browser tabs: one mainstream news video, one big right-wing show. Watch the pre-roll and host-read ads. The right-wing…
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Amodei AI Jobs Prediction: Damage Starts at the Bottom
Your first “real” job is usually 30% useful work and 70% learning how to be an adult in an industry….
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Block Layoffs AI: Why Dorsey’s Move Is a Market Signal
On Thursday, Jack Dorsey fired roughly 4,000 people and called it an AI story. The phrase “Block layoffs AI” shot…
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AI Deflation Risk: Why Citi’s Warning Matters for Policy
On Citi’s trading floor, someone basically wrote: “AI might give us boom‑level productivity and still push us into a deflation…
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What Is Racially Motivated Eminent Domain and How Has It Affected Black Families?
Racially motivated eminent domain refers to the government practice of condemning and seizing private property while using a false or…
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What Was the Business Plot Against FDR?
The Business Plot was an alleged 1933 conspiracy by a small group of wealthy American businessmen to organize a fascist-style…
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Medieval Height Often Reached 170-173 Cm in Northern Europe
People in the Middle Ages were not uniformly shorter than people today, or even shorter than people in later centuries;…
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Priority Fee and Driver Benefits Fee Do Not Go to Drivers
Uber’s priority fee is a rider charge for faster matching, and Uber’s own help pages do not say that drivers…
