“The Team’s Gonna Miss You” In an abbreviated version of Jason L. Riley’s latest WSJ article, one reader sums it up: Family moves into town, enrolls child in school, signs contract which includes strict dress code. Student ignores code and is disciplined. Story should now end. Good story about keeping your word. Here from Jason […]
Archives for February 2024
Your Survival Guy’s 2024 Super States: Time to Flee?
Your Survival Guy’s 2024 Super States is in, and I wonder: Is it time to flee? Because this is the beginning stages of a tectonic shift in America. You and I know the moving vans are gassed up and running. They’re ready to leave the big, blue-blob states on both coasts and elsewhere. No longer […]
How Do You Get to French Wine Country?
In a recent email, Pascale Bernasse of French Wine Explorers explained how you can get from the United States to French wine country. He wrote: Wine Country from Paris Most wine regions do not have direct flights from the USA or other countries, so you may need to connect in Paris. Here are tips to […]
Is War Brewing in Transnistria?
In National Review, Andrew Stuttaford takes readers on a guided tour of the history and politics that could make Moldova and Transnistria the scene of the next war. He writes: With the exception, perhaps, of its unexpected appearance as the Kingdom of “Moldavia” in Dynasty, it’s fair to say that Americans do not think much […]
Ukraine’s Western Front: Grain War with Poland
Poland and Ukraine are strong allies, but a dispute over Ukrainian grain dumping in Polish markets is driving them apart. The Wall Street Journal explains:
The Conundrum of “Uncommitted”
Exporting the Islamic Revolution As Israel pushes deeper into Gaza and prepares for war with Hezbollah in the north, “Iran’s campaign against the Jewish state and the U.S. is approaching an inflection point,” warns Seth Cropsey in the WSJ. Mr. Cropsey, president of the Yorktown Institute, warns that a new strategy is needed in Jerusalem […]
DIVIDENDS: “Do or Do Not. There is No Try”
Ahhhh, cash, money, green. Sounds so nice. More money, less work. We all want it, and we all say we need it, but when it comes to investing, why do investors ignore it? I’m talking about dividends. In a “What have you done for me lately?” world, investors live or die on prices. Don’t be […]
Can AI Be Controlled? Does It Need to Be?
An upcoming conference held by the MIT Technology Review will investigate some of the ongoing questions about artificial intelligence, including how to control it. In a recent email about its forthcoming EmTech Digital conference, the MIT Technology Review wrote: From V-JEPA to Sora, methods for teaching machines to model the physical world by watching videos […]
Democracy & Diversity: Not In the Constitution
UPDATE 2.28.24: Recently, users of Google’s Gemini AI system were astounded to see the results of their requests for artificial images. Thomas Barrabi reports at the New York Post: Google’s highly-touted AI chatbot Gemini was blasted as “woke” after its image generator spit out factually or historically inaccurate pictures — including a woman as pope, […]
Apple Ends Its EV Effort
After spending ten years on developing an electric vehicle, Apple has called it quits. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports: Apple Inc. is canceling a decadelong effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company. Apple made the disclosure internally […]
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