“Apple did something far smarter than wrap a good technology in a snazzy design; it wrapped a good technology in a great business model.” Johnson, Mark W. (2010-02-22). Seizing the [ … ]

Mother Jones recently announced it’s “redoubling our Russia reporting”—in What passes for “Russia reporting” at Mother Jones is mostly just glorified InfoWars paranoia for progressive marks — a cataract of [ … ]

Nothing is as permanent as we imagine–especially super-complex, super-costly, super-asymmetric and super-debt-dependent state/financial systems. Identifying the tell-tale signs of Imperial decay and decline is a bit of a parlor game. The [ … ]

What if my car is trying to kill me? And what if the artificial intelligence police robots are in on it? I am the sole passenger in a car being driven autonomously and [ … ]

One of the core problems of financial reform is how to “resolve,” AKA bankrupt, a big bank — how can equity holders be wiped out, and debt holders carve up [ … ]

Ariana Grande, of whom I had not heard until Salman Abedi killed 22 people at her “concert” in Manchester, has had herself tattooed with a picture of a bee, a [ … ]

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that [ … ]

The entire status quo is based on the delusion that rapidly rising debt will never generate any negative consequences. Here’s a chart of America’s national debt, extended a mere dozen [ … ]

Salesman, sell, something. I am writing this to another ‘me’, whoever you are and I hope it is helpful. It is the advice I was once desperately looking for, a white [ … ]

The British Medical Journal reported last week that Dutch legislators are considering the extension of their law of euthanasia to old people who are not fatally ill but merely tired [ … ]