After a half-hour ride from the Serena Hotel, our driver stopped shy of the Nairobi airport. “Everybody out!”, he insisted. Perplexed at this odd order, we exchanged glances. “Are we there?”, we wondered. “No. You must walk thru security”, he said while pointing toward a roadside structure. “I’ll meet…
Tucker Carlson sounded the alarm about the looming danger of a U.S. war with Iran under President Donald Trump’s leadership, warning that such a move would not only devastate America’s global standing but end Trump’s presidency outright. During an interview with Steve Bannon, Carlson laid bare the stakes, accusing…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is among the few MAGA voices in Congress who is breaking ranks and becoming vocal over what increasingly looks like inevitable American involvement in the Israel-Iran war which is currently spinning dangerously out of control. We earlier detailed that it seems a majority in…
Story out of Utah, where, as loyal readers of this Substack will remember, it took local prosecutors more than 3 years to charge a BLM gunman for shooting a driver in the head during a street blockade. As far as I can tell, the gunman was never charged. No…
So here’s the good news about AI: it can now do more BS work, author David Graeber’s term for the meaningless churning of bureaucratic “work” that lost its purpose and functionality long ago but is now considered “essential” to the operation of a system in which complexity and…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we had a little “Golden Age” of television when manly shows with manly characters briefly flourished. Sopranos, Band of Brothers, The Wire, The Shield, Deadwood, Rome, Generation Kill, Justified, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, and the first season of True Detective broke the network mold and told dark, gritty stories in ways that had never…
“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”― Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains and an empty road. The car’s capsule draws us together. I am taking my adult son to a trail that begins at the bottom of a ski slope where he…
An investor friend sent me a Morgan Stanley report published in April titled Humanoids: A $5 Trillion Market. The report validates my hypothesis that embodied AI (i.e. humanoids) is the next frontier beyond foundational LLMs. The opening of the report is certainly attention-catching:…
Most people didn’t catch it at the time, but at a Thursday afternoon press conference, President Donald Trump all but greenlit Israel’s looming strike on Iran. “I wouldn’t call it imminent,” he said — the kind of caveated warning that lands like a punchline: “I’m not saying you’ve gained weight… but.” The implication…
Sources familiar with the matter have told Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton that the Trump administration is poised to enter Israel’s aggressive war against Iran directly. US airstrikes on Iran could begin as soon as Monday. Please contact the White House by calling (202-456-7041) or sending an email. Tell…
