Update March 2024

This month got some interesting stuff and finally a bit of decent writing done. I try to stick to the issues. I don’t care who’s on what side. If anyone was getting anything right, I wouldn’t have needed to write most of these articles.

Op-Ed: AI and more vs immigration — The economics of big trouble Any fool could see this coming. They haven’t.

Op-Ed: Wrong, wrong, wrong. The future may never show up for the young What are these kids supposed to live on?

Op-Ed: What next for Reddit? Investor mindsets, that’s what. Self-explanatory, but it’ll take a while for the finance sector to get it.

Op-Ed: Massive US layoffs vs Colossal Corporate Cluelessness — You lose In the background, the layoffs continue. They can’t cost their own structures?

Op-Ed: Trump immunity case — Can SCOTUS really grant immunity? Perhaps the most unnecessary situation in legal history.

Op-Ed: Trump vs Australia — Rant about Australian ambassador didn’t go down well Nobody cares, Donald.

Op-Ed: Trump can’t raise bond — Why, and this isn’t entirely about him The brat has a few years left as even a topic for discussion.

Op-Ed: Alien necrophiliacs prefer conspiracy theorists — Denial of Sentience plague Fake clutter and it’s still going on, all this time later.

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Op-Ed: Worldwide neuro-catastrophe will be mismanaged ASAP On of the most global crises didn’t even last the month as a topic.

Op-Ed: TikTok tech threat — Let’s not get too simplistic. This is about a lot more than China and the US.

Op-Ed: The long, expensive trudge to understanding dark matter, decades later Still not defined? Why not?

Op-Ed: First generation deployable AI robots — Has Musk got it right? AI robots are inevitable. Could we have some objective criticism, maybe?

Op-Ed: ‘Back to the office’ has failed to improve commercial property bottom lines. Now what? Going back to the office didn’t affect the bottom line at all.

Op-Ed: NATO, spending, politics, real needs, and utter drivel Getting everything wrong as usual.

Op-Ed: ‘Lose jobs to crack inflation’ — Economics is no longer related to people Believe it or not, there was a time when economics had something to do with reality.

Op-Ed: Cleaning up space junk at long last — Basic space hygiene 101 How many basic things can these guys get wrong? This should have been done 20 years ago.

Op-Ed: Strong leaders need weak followers. An American parable. The greatest weaklings like to look strong, but they can’t be strong.

Op-Ed: Facebook ditches Australian pay-for-news deal — Much trickier than it looks This is going to pan out as a business move. Nobody’s seeing it that way.