Until very recently, “Canada joins the European Union” belonged in speculative fiction, not on the front page. Yet in the…
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AI Doomers Don’t Preach: Lego, Disney, Madonna, and the AI Panic
We didn’t suddenly become squeamish about derivative work when AI showed up. We’ve spent decades cheering for respectable plagiarists in…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
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How the Entertainment Industry Became Legacy
Hollywood has been in a decline long before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes of 2023. It suffers from the same…
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When an Oracle doesn’t see the future
The Ellisons have more luck than brains. That is the hallmark of most Western billionaires. Modern culture does not reward…
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Ladies First: The White House Purge Continues
First, puppy killer Kristi Noem was blasted out of the White House, and now Pam Bondi. All that scheming to…
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Economic Terrorism: A Primer
Don’t kid yourself: the “inflation” and Iran War have very little to do with why you are being fleeced as…
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Why Billionaires Have No Respect for You.
Because you’re the chump who takes economic abuse, no matter what, while the predators smash and grab your money. And…
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Keeping Up Appearances: How and Why the Middle-Class Domesticated Post World War Two
I wrote about a book about this phenomenon, but let me take it from a different angle. After the carnage…
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Jeff Bezos’s Parasitic Frankenstein Dark Factory Gambit
When your legacy newspaper is bleeding millions, it is time to focus your energy on making dark factories. Of course,…