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Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism
The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.
The Capital-Intensity Paradox: When Software Economics Breaks
Software was supposed to require little physical capital. Frontier AI requires data centers, electricity, chips, cooling, and transmission. N43 examines why software economics broke, what the new capital cycle means for depreciation and…
CNN Staffers Panic over Paramount Merger: 'Bloodbath Coming,’ Newsroom Is ‘Like a Funeral’
Paramount’s looming acquisition of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly sending shivers down the collective spines of news gathers at the 46-year-old legacy outlet. The post CNN Staffers Panic over Paramount Merger:…
Inflation Now, Deflation Later: The Timing Paradox of AI's Price Effects
AI may be inflationary now — construction, investment demand, power costs — and deflationary later, through productivity and lower production costs. N43 examines the phase model, what determines the crossover, and how central banks handle…
Railways or Dot-Com: Which History Does AI Investment Repeat?
Could AI investment resemble railroad construction more than the dot-com boom — upfront fixed investment, overbuilding, spillovers, speculation, consolidation? N43 compares the two historical structures, what each analogy gets right, and…
The real lesson from a Catholic bishop who reached Rat Pack levels of fame
Sheen’s almost supernatural willingness to bear wrongs lightly mirrors the example of Christ himself.
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
Texas turning blue may hinge on Democrats harnessing data center opposition
Data center opposition is reshaping Texas' 2026 governor and Senate races as voters raise concerns over power, water and utility costs.
How conservatism went from Reagan to Trump
In the decades following World War II, the American right coalesced around fusionism — the idea that individual liberty and limited government could coexist with religious faith and traditional morality. Today, that coalition is divided.…
When the State Steps Back: Can Decentralized Science Substitute for Government Climate Assessment?
Community researchers are moving to fill the space vacated by changes to U.S. climate-reporting programs. The question is not whether volunteer effort is valuable, but whether it can replicate the specific functions — mandated synthesis,…
Tigray forces launch offensive against Ethiopian government
Tigray People’s Liberation Front seizes control of airports, targets government positions in Afar and Amhara regions.
Two Constitutions in the Boat: Offshore Wind and the Constitutional Politics of the Energy Transition
New York and California are reported to have sued over federal actions canceling offshore wind projects, opening a defining test of whether state clean-energy mandates can survive collision with federal control of the outer continental…
The Uses of Imperfection: What Distributed Disorder Actually Does for Network Resilience
New research suggesting that carefully distributed disorder can stabilize networks — and that perfectly ordered systems can be less resilient than heterogeneous ones — deserves a careful reading: a mathematical result about failure-mode…
The Paradigm Shift in Plain Sight: Climate Policy Becomes Build-Capacity Policy
Climate policy is quietly changing from an emissions-reduction paradigm — price the bad, regulate the bad, phase down the bad — into a build-capacity paradigm centered on permitting, procurement, and the construction of generation,…
One System Now: AI, Electricity, Inflation, and the New Geometry of Geopolitics
AI capital expenditure, power infrastructure, inflation, interest rates, and great-power supply-chain competition now form a single feedback system — this capstone analysis maps its loops, names its stabilizing and destabilizing arms, and…
Trump meets US-backed Venezuelan president for first time since Maduro seized
Rodriguez was handpicked by Trump as leader of Venezuela was arrested and taken to the US
AI drone maker hits $6.4 billion valuation as Ukraine war spurs defense tech
Tekever is one of a number of European defense tech startups raising sizable rounds amid a rearmament campaign from countries in the region.
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‘Annihilate’ vs ‘crushing’ attacks: Why Iran, US up rhetoric amid talks
Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran and then brags about diplomacy, provoking Tehran to warn of a response.
It’s Not the Oscars: U.N. Speakers Love to Ignore Its 15-Minute Rule
The chronic flouting of the time limit for speeches highlights a fundamental feature of the United Nations: It is made up of sovereign states that it cannot force to do anything.
Dolly Parton’s Estate Accuses Her Nephew of Threatening Violence and to Destroy His Aunt’s Legacy
Dolly Parton ‘s estate accused the country music icon’s nephew of threatening to commit violence and destroy his aunt’s legacy and business empire in court filings submitted Tuesday and asked a judge to keep him away from its employees and…
How have data center politics changed? Look at Texas’s Republican governor.
Times have changed for Gov. Greg Abbott when it comes to AI issues.
South Korea pushes for Trump summit with renegade North Korea, seeing opportunity for peace
South Korea pushes for Trump summit with renegade North Korea, seeing opportunity for peace
Harvey Weinstein to Be Sentenced for Sexual Assault After 6-year Legal Odyssey
NEW YORK -- The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom to witness the disgraced Hollywood honcho’s #MeToo reckoning. The post Harvey Weinstein to Be Sentenced…
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