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Retrograde

Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be.

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Free money

Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further.

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Backward

Pride and prejudice. Certainty borne out of extreme cruelty, both felt and inflicted. A century of warlords and volunteers.

  • You Could Be Next

    Over the last few years, a new type of AI company has emerged, like Mercor and Surge AI, staffed by and large by former white-collar workers, including former lawyers, scientists, copywriters, and screenwriters. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/877388/white-collar-workers-training-ai-mercor/?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InRtVWJ6Q0NEVXkiLCJwIjoiL2NzL2ZlYXR1cmVzLzg3NzM4OC93aGl0ZS1jb2xsYXItd29ya2Vycy10cmFpbmluZy1haS1tZXJjb3IiLCJleHAiOjE3NzM1ODM3MTcsImlhdCI6MTc3MzE1MTcxN30.53oBMYd7Un052lv06tM4E6R77ikIntyWUDcZIIlfW0k&utm_medium=gift-link more ›

  • The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz

    Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data. https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-6/ more ›

  • Empire: World History: 340. Chairman Mao: World War II, Japanese Invasion, & Massacre in Nanjing (Ep 3)

    Listen: https://ift.tt/F56YmiI How did World War II break out in Asia in 1937? Why did Mao Zedong and his fellow communists live in caves after the Long March? How did the notorious Nanjing Massacre occur? ** Binge all six episodes… more ›

  • Empire: World History: 339. Chairman Mao: China’s Communist Uprising (Ep 2)

    Listen: https://ift.tt/kjVfcPq Why did the communists and nationalists join forces with the USSR during the Chinese Civil War? When did the nationalists purge communists in what is known as the “White Terror”? Why did 80,000 communists walk across the country… more ›

  • Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk

    Dario Amodei, Co-Founder & CEO, Anthropic sits down with Bloomberg’s Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait to discuss the future of AI, focusing on harnessing its power while managing risk, at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic… more ›

  • Helen Thompson: Rare earths – the next war?

    📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sits down with author and Cambridge professor, Helen Thompson, to discuss the global race for rare earth elements. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://ift.tt/fy1r3gl Listen to the podcast: https://ift.tt/CZvoged… more ›

  • The national interest: politics after globalisation | LSE Event

    Are the politics of national interest making a comeback in the multipolar world after the end of globalisation? What is the national interest and why did it get forgotten at the end of the 20th century? Does the idea offer… more ›

  • Tech Brew Ride Home: Claude 365

    Listen: https://ift.tt/qVt3A2Q Anthropic is fighting the government in court. Microsoft is turning to Anthropic to get agentic in all its productivity products. A big new hyperscaler startup has raised a monster round. And could the war with Iran be something… more ›

  • Bruce Sterling. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling

    https://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt more ›

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) | CISA

    https://www.cisa.gov/sbom more ›