Author: Jim

Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.

https://wapo.st/3IqeK6P

Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/nvidia-chips-gpu-generative-ai/677664/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYerKY-Uh95KcCwbjw-aR-gc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump …

The Supreme Court may well decide another presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/trump-trials-supreme-court.html?smid=em-share

The social contract of trust between experts and society is in danger of dissolving. We need to start putting it back together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/truth-decay-experts-hilary-putnam/677590/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYx9ZYUfxgowp-AKfs4JQKQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/how-special-ops-became-the-solution-to-everything/618080/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQu8WHLPNNoPobsQQmclZnM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss

Will exhaustion and despair lead to some kind of resolution for Palestinians and Israelis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-hostages.html?smid=em-share

The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump

Births and deaths are only part of what makes America turn left or right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/opinion/red-blue-states-demographics.html?smid=em-share

Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-equity-publicly-traded-companies/675788/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social