Musk is evil. I rarely use that word; it takes a high bar. Musk flies over it like a Shahed drone.

A cheerleading piece like this on the front page of @nytimes is the height of irresponsibility. Not one of the glaring moral and existential dangers of AI was even mentioned (in spite of a disclaimer reminding the reader that the Times is suing these companies for copyright infringement!). If the author is going to ignore the universal surveillance state enabled by AI, or the inherent inequality created by these first steps toward transhumanism, or the daily barrage of news reports about rogue AI agents, then one should infer the paper thinks these dangers unimportant. Should we next expect a cheery piece on the use of Polonium to heat our houses? nytimes.com/2026/10/25/techn…

We need more Democrats to talk about capitalism this way. Endorsing socialism as a solution is intellectually lazy (or uninformed). Capitalism with guardrails made America the envy of the world. We don’t live under that capitalism anymore, we live under a cancer on capitalism called neoliberalism, and it will destroy us if we don’t take the country back from the billionaire class that thinks it owns us.

Has there ever in history been an industry leader warning the entire world about the existential danger of his own product, and the reaction of the world’s leaders is…to do nothing? Every member of Congress is now complicit in what’s coming.

Worth reading this cynical essay on AI replacing writers as much for what it doesn't say than what it does. Raskin is so apparently captured by neoliberal thinking that in all his arguments pro and con he never once considers that writing is a job, like millions of other jobs, and that there is no moral - or even sane - argument for eliminating millions of jobs in favor of machines. The only possible argument is the utilitarian savings in not having to pay those useless workers. And for those who say machines have replaced millions of workers in the past, first, lots of folks in the rust belt will tell you that didn't work out so well, but, more important, machines in the past were designed to replace humans in particular jobs, not all jobs. The essence of the American experiment was to create a society based on the common good: the inalienable rights of humans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The essence of neoliberalism is the opposite: a rejection of the common good in favor of the right to unlimited profit (see Milton Friedman's definition). We know which philosophy has prevailed by the fact that our richest and most powerful men are devising ways to eliminate humans altogether, and our politicians are doing nothing about it. Our most powerful corporations have done everything they could to make humans worthless before AI; that's why so many full-time employees need government assistance just to survive. AI is just a more efficient way of eliminating workers altogether. Call it a different version of The Final Solution. And by the way, I took the author's AI discernment test and scored a perfect 100%. thefp.com/p/the-last-essay-a…

Like so many politicians, Emanuel misreads the right-left divide. Polls show that 70-80% of Americans agree on almost every issue, but that agreement is not nearly all "centrist," and right now neither party represents what the vast majority wants. In broad strokes, here's where they are: Yes, they hate corruption. Rahm's suggestions on this are on the money. But on economics, Emanuel is wrong. Americans are no longer centrist. They are all-in on a historic and sweeping reform of our economy, ending the poison of neoliberalism and bringing back real opportunity and upward mobility to the 70% of Americans left out of the last 40 years of corporate growth. A raise in the minimum wage will not cut it. Americans want Capitalism for All, an end to billionaires buying the government and then dividing up the spoils. This is not socialism, but it's not McCain/Romney conservatism either. It's capitalism the way it was supposed to work before it was corrupted two generations ago. On everything else, Americans are sick to death of extremism, of lying, screaming, division, of the Rage Merchants and Algorithm Builders who get rich destroying the fabric of our society. They want common sense and common decency. If Democrats find the courage to throw over their corporate masters while at the same time standing up to their own far left totalitarians, they can win with 55% or 60% majorities, instead of squeaking by - and often losing - with 48%. @RahmEmanuel wsj.com/opinion/democrats-ne… via @WSJopinion