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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.

  • Chocolate Hot Dog – Miles Exactly – Red Note Jazz

    Miles Exactly is presented as a single formal object rather than a sequence of performances. The recording is conceived as an ensemble study in proportion, distance, and internal balance, where every gesture exists in relation to the whole. Density and… more ›

  • Munich Security Report 2026 – Munich Security Conference

    The Munich Security Report 2026 analyzes the far-reaching consequences of the rise of political forces that favor destruction over reform. https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report/2026/ more ›

  • Louis CK diagnosis Trump 🤣🤣

    Louis C.K. gives a brutally honest breakdown of Donald Trump — cutting through the noise with sharp insight and dark humor. No shouting, no spin… just a raw diagnosis that hits harder because of how calmly it’s delivered. This clip… more ›

  • Arts & Ideas: Working Class Creativity

    Listen: https://ift.tt/qNiQ5tL From an impoverished neighbourhood in South London, Charlie Chaplin became one of the most significant figures in the development of cinema. More recently, TV writers like Sophie Willan and Michaela Coel have transformed the way working class lives… more ›

  • Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View: Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

    Listen: https://ift.tt/pqhV9IP Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies such as AI are reshaping our future. I've been studying AI and exponential technologies at the frontier for over ten years. Each week, I share some… more ›

  • Ones and Tooze: The AI Economy

    Listen: https://ift.tt/7FYc3iD Big tech companies are directing a huge portion of their capital expenditures to artificial intelligence—at least $650 billion in the coming year. The effect is to stimulate the economy in the short term but what happens in the… more ›

  • Coinbase rolls out AI tool to ‘give any agent a wallet’

    AI bots will now be able to independently hold funds, send payments, trade tokens, earn yield, and transact onchain. https://www.theblock.co/post/389524/coinbase-rolls-out-ai-tool-to-give-any-agent-a-wallet more ›

  • Morocco wants a third voice in the global AI race

    Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni discusses Morocco’s push for sovereign AI, its partnership with Mistral AI for local languages, and why Africa needs its own ethical framework for technology. https://restofworld.org/2026/morocco-ai-minister/?utm_source=semafor more ›

  • The coming crypto apocalypse – The Japan Times

    The future of money and payments will feature gradual evolution, not the revolution that crypto-grifters promised. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/10/world/coming-crypto-apocalypse/#Echobox=1770697289 more ›

  • Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer

    A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change. https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening more ›