Update: January 2024

A miscellany of stuff from the Big World that does nothing but create problems for itself. One of the reasons I write these things is to try to manage the ridiculous “analyses” and spin from people who should never have been let out of the womb. You have a choice between “news” and “noise”.

Op-Ed: What will tomorrow cost? Financial genocide and rate cuts won’t solve anything “Financial genocide” might be a euphemism.

Op-Ed: Evergrande, $300 billion debt, and chronic global systemic risk Who knows what else is exposed to this level of debt?

Op-Ed: Evictions and homelessness — A game of Monopoly vs democracy and sanity This is obscene.

Op-Ed: 300,000 people in New Hampshire voted. This is proof of what, exactly? Those numbers mean he managed to lose 30% of his own party in that one vote.

Op-Ed: Australian heatwave nears 50C with cyclones and more Yecch.

Op-Ed: The elegant logic of more interest rate rises, as explained by the IMF Anything but human reality is the basis for economic policy? No thanks.

Op-Ed: How to pay producers for materials used in AI training — Cheapskate or not? It can be done, and done easily. This needs to be standardized.

Op-Ed: The state of global organized crime — You won’t like it The parasites are doing fine.

Op-Ed: Employers pushing for a return to the office – Back to Fantasyland The fools want all those added costs?

Op-Ed: Social media usage, X, spin, and hype – Marketing vs AI vs users and the future Try some disinfectant and antihistamines.

Op-Ed: AI vs Democracy — The Zeitgeist of the early 21st century. It’s happening right now.

Op-Ed: Giant cosmic Big Ring is corkscrewing — What makes it do that? Cosmology just got a new look at itself.

Op-Ed: Presidential immunity — Why? There’s not even a theoretical reason for this.

Op-Ed: Interest rates and US politics – A terrible mix Self-explanatory

Op-Ed: AI and finance — Colliding tyrannies or an upside nobody saw? Just a bit of optimism nobody saw coming.

Op-Ed: Grammarly, English usage, and the fossilization of writing software styles Grunt, snarl.

Op-Ed: Tradwives, a banal mystery, or something else? Another conservative obscenity.

Op-Ed: If enough states disqualify Trump, he can’t win. …But? Hmmm?

Op-Ed: Noise pollution — A deafening killer, getting worse? Ignored as usual.

Op-Ed: AI and the artificial unrealism around it This hype misses all the facts. You’re being sold used technologies without seeing the real benefits.